the white headphones (sorry earpods) that come with the Apple iPod, a clear indication to any street thief that you own something worth nicking
> "Hey Clare, can i borrow your spare mugmes, i can't find mine"
> "Did you hear Steve got his iPod nicked on the way to work? well that's not a suprise, you can see his mugmes a mile off against his black jacket"

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allochthone
Altenberge
apple-polisher
arcing-horn grid arc-chute
authorized program
auto-covariance matrix
banked winding
beneficiates
bird's nest disease
biwait
break into flinders
Brodie's ligament
butt weld ends
cabinet pasteurizer
cable cover lead cutter
canonical perturbation
chololic acid
continuous carbonation
copper ring
copper trace
correct an error
cracking in liquid phase
critical engine
curve union
delayed coagulation
Demefurox
depart
directivty
discontinuous rating
Dno
dog's mercury
double-image prism
ectophloic concentric vascular bundle
ethusina taiwanensis
faustite
fixed-point representation
foreign flag ship
formamidinium
fxr
gas ballast vacuum pump
gaseous current
geometric correction of imagery
global communications system
granell
Gulenovka
hearth-rug
high-forest compartment system
highpower
imbracements
Jiefang truck
joyste
junction of park and shift
kerria lacca lacca
kewaunee
let ... alone
line run samples
Liparis bistriata
lithochemical prospecting
make room for
mana-wove
Montgomery's tubercle
Morgan, Sir Henry
Morse standard taper plug gauge
mouth illuminator
network testing problem
non-reimbursable assistance
nontrade
not sum
NZC
Obabe
off (one's) guard
peaning
photo-sensing marker
photoresponsive polymer
piston cotter
plate limiter
purpureocobaltic
quietus est
regrouping data item
reinverts
remanent flux density
rocket lighting
Rumillies
sequenced acknowledge
sewa
shear of
silicon valley
silyation
sophisticators
soupfin shark
St-Médard-de-Guizières
star star connection
substantia basilaris
superfamily Muscoidea
techie
test summary
timing substation
VBBA
Venetian blind multiplier
vibration spectrum analyser
weapon grade
Zyryanskiy Rayon