Subject: Definitions (Page 24)

Armor: The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Mouse: An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate.

Spanking: To impress upon the mind from the bottom up.

False Pregnancy: Laboring under a misconception.

Leftovers: Repast history.

Harp: A piano in the nude.

Obesity: A surplus gone to waist.

Paunch: A bulging trunk.

A true gentleman is a man who may know how to play the bagpipes – but doesn’t.

Cleavage: Something which excites disapproval in everyone but the audience.

Y Chromosome: The cause of virility, war, baldness, hockey, sex crimes, clever inventions and a disinclination to ask for directions when lost.

The Chinese food in China is not better than the Chinese food here, mostly because of differences of definitions of words that we have – like, for example, 'beef.'

(1960 – ) American comedian

Users: Computer users are divided into three types: Novice users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert users: people who break other people's computers.

Tact: The art of saying nothing when there is nothing to say. 

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.

Parking Space: An unoccupied place on the other side of the street.

Discretion: A sense that comes to a man too late to do him any good.

Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Overeat: To dine.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Foreign Aid: The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Woman: A creature who is either making a fool out of man, or making a man out of a fool.