Subject: Definitions (Page 13)

Intuition: The sixth sense that allows a woman five wrong guesses.

Yacht: A floating debt.

Worry: Interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Financial Wizard: A person who can earn money faster than the family can spend it.

Capital Punishment: Killing people who kill people to prove that killing people is wrong.

Twins: Infant replay.

Ability: What will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

Consultant: A jobless person who shows executives how to work.

Hydroponic Gardening: Using a plant to convert water into yard work.

Aborigines: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.

Discretion: Being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Husband: Someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.

Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Adolescence: A period in which children begin to question the answers.

Philanderer: A man who considers himself too good to be true.

Jury: Twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

Urinal: The one place where all men are peers.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

Belly: The veranda over the toy shop.

Physician: One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Fern: A plant that you’re supposed to water once a day, and when you don’t it dies, but if you do it dies anyway, only not so soon.