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Doctor: The only man who hasn’t a guaranteed cure for a cold.

Definitions Doctors Health

Minor Operation: One performed on someone else.

Definitions Health

Righteous Indignation: Your own wrath, as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others.

Anger Definitions Emotions

Gossip: Something negative that is developed and then enlarged.

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Knitting: An exercise that gives women something to do when they are talking.

Activities Definitions

Kleptomaniac: A thief with breeding.

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

Yacht: A floating debt.

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Birth: The first and dirtiest of all disasters. 

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions Situations

Intuition: That strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Characteristics Definitions People Women

Virtue: Insufficient temptation.

Characteristics Definitions

Consolation: The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language

Fable: A story told by a teenager arriving home after curfew.

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Unemployment: The usual alternative to overwork.

Definitions Work

Genealogy: Chasing your own tale.

Definitions Family

Brassiere: A bust stop.

Clothing Definitions

Executive: A big gun – that hasn’t been fired yet.

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Good Advice: What a man gives when he gets too old to set a bad example.

Beliefs Definitions Opinion

Garage: An attic on a lower level.

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Congratulation: The civility of envy.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language

Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry.

Cooking Definitions Food/Drink

Travel Brochure: A trip teaser.

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