You see, the more CES attendees queue, the more they wait in line to see the blob of an exhibition that now spread over several gigantic exhibition halls and casino-hotels, the less there is to see.

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Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.

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Voter Arthur Shakwira said he got in line at 4 a.m. but left the queue over confusion about which line to stand in.

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There are over a hundred background themes to choose from in the Theme Garden, a queue option to line up future blog posts with the ability to choose the date and time the next post will get published, and an entire language running rampant invented by Tumblr users.

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Airport monitors counted waiting time by identifying a different passenger each 15 minutes at the very back of the queue, which could be a line formed before passengers split off into separate lines for European passengers, non-European passengers and those prescreened for expedited-entry programs.

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Unencumbered by a stroller, I could have zipped right up to the front of the line as a single rider and escaped the mindless idling in a queue of strangers that seemed to know best.

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The agency doesn't make travelers go to the end of the regular screening line, however, but instead slips them into the front of the regular queue.

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Private-sector firms with plants coming on line often assume they will be last in the queue for domestic fuel.

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We stopped in a line of about 10 autos, but a soldier walked over, directed us around the queue, and waved us through.

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