68 MAGIC WORDS Quandog Quandoggli Origins: This magic phrase was coined by A.R.R.R. Roberts for his humorous novel The Soddit (200 ), a send-up of The Hobbit. Variations and Incantations: • Qua-aa-andoggli "'Qua-aa-andoggli,' said Gandef, putting the word through a strange musical contortion, starting warbling and high and dropping to a baritone for the final syllable." -- A.R.R.R. Roberts, The Soddit (200 ) Quid Pro Quo (see diggi daggi, shurry murry, horum harum, lirum larum, rowdy mowdy, giri gari, posito, besti basti, saron froh, fatto matto, quid pro quo) Quid pro pro. . . . those three magic words. -- Bob Norman, "Corruption and Nothingness" (200 ) Meanings: • Equality in exchange • This for that Origins: Quid pro quo is a Latin phrase. In Literature: • Mozart, Bastien und Bastienne (1768) Qwertyuiop Asdfghjkl Zxcvbnm qwertyuiop. Probably, I thought, a spell. -- Ken MacLeod, The Sky Road (1999) Meanings: • Euphemism "Shut the qwertyuiop up!" "Get the asdfghjkl: out of here!" -- Brendan B. Read, Home Workplace (2004) Origins: These magic words, "from which all others are made,"4 come from the standard typewriter keyboard's three rows of letters. 4 Andrew Lewis Conn, P: A Novel (200 )