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  2. The Goon Show running jokes - Wikipedia

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    Bluebottle says "You rotten swine, you!" when something bad happens to him like being "deaded". At one point in the episode "The Sinking of Westminster Pier", he complained that he was always being "deaded", and that Eccles never was. This was followed by an explosion and a call of "You rotten swine, Bluebottle!" from Eccles.

  3. Repetition compulsion - Wikipedia

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    Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to occur again.

  4. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    The "whole truth" is defined as learning "something about everything", "everything about something", or "everything about everything". In reality, a historian "can only hope to know something about something". [36] Homunculus fallacy – using a "middle-man" for explanation; this sometimes leads to regressive middle-men.

  5. Don't repeat yourself - Wikipedia

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    "Don't repeat yourself" (DRY), also known as "duplication is evil", is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of information which is likely to change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids redundancy in the first place.

  6. Employee silence - Wikipedia

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    Within organizations people often have to make decisions about whether to speak up or remain silent - whether to share or withhold their ideas, opinions, and concerns ... [The problem is that] in many cases, they choose the safe response of silence, withholding input that could be valuable to others or thoughts that they wish they could express.

  7. Desensitization (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    This process typically occurs when an emotional response is repeatedly triggered, but the action tendency associated with the emotion proves irrelevant or unnecessary. Psychologist Mary Cover Jones pioneered early desensitization techniques to help individuals "unlearn" (disassociate from) phobias [ 1 ] and anxieties .

  8. What is high blood pressure and why is it called the 'silent ...

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    In fact, most people are completely unaware of the dangers associated with high blood pressure, the so-calledsilent killer.” Your blood pressure may, at times, go up for a variety of reasons.

  9. Buster Keaton - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) [1] was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. [2] He is best known for his silent films during the 1920s, in which he performed physical comedy and inventive stunts.