“WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.”

— Douglas Adams , book The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

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“WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.”

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