Subject: Definitions (Page 18)

World: A place that was built in six days – and looks it.

Karate: The ancient Japanese art of getting people to buy lots of belts.

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian

Celebrity: A person whose name is in everything but the telephone book.

Current Events: Electric shocks.

Short Vacation: Half a loaf.

Opportunist: One who goes ahead and does what you always planned to do. 

Whiskey: The best thing to take for a headache – the night before.

Abstract Art: The proof that things are not as bad as they are painted to be.

Poor man: One feels genuinely sorry for him.

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer

Average Man: A person who doesn’t want much, and usually gets a little less than that.

Marriage: A deal in which a man gives away half his groceries in order to get the other half cooked.

Hip: Smartly attuned to the latest cutting-edge cliches.

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

Acrobat: The person who turns a flop into a success.

Bachelor: A man who can get out of bed from either side.

Makeup: Lipstick, eyeliner, blush which ironically makes Mom look better while making her young daughter look “like a tramp.”

Falsies: A hope chest.

Hero: One who is afraid to run away.

Statesman: A politician who is held upright by equal pressure from all directions.

Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Faith: Not wanting to know what is true.

(1844 – 1900) German philosopher

Rear: In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist