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Comment author: David_Gerard 01 December 2010 12:51:25AM *  5 points [-]

The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not ... what do they call it ... go spare? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the implications. Then go spare. But with precision.

  • Terry Pratchett, Thud!

[I have had cause to apply this one recently. It particularly resonated to see it in the book just now.]

Comment author: Alicorn 01 December 2010 12:54:17AM *  1 point [-]

Do not what do they call it go spare?

This seems to be missing, at minimum, some punctuation.

Edit: Moot.

Comment author: David_Gerard 01 December 2010 01:14:06AM 0 points [-]

Ellipses eaten by cut'n'paste. Fixed. Thank you :-)

Comment author: gwern 01 December 2010 02:43:46AM 0 points [-]

For the benighted Yanks among us:

(The secondary Wiktionary definition doesn't seem to convey the depth of anger that Urban Dictionary and various citations I looked at did.)

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