Subject: Definitions (Page 29)

Garden Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

Invitro Fertilization: The innoculate conception.

Auction: A place where, if you aren’t careful, you’ll get something for nodding.

Bachelor: One who treats all women as sequels.

Accountability: The mother of caution.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Insomnia: contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

Abstainer: A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Travel Brochure: A trip teaser.

Wind: Weather on the go.

Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.

Testosterone: Hormone which causes facial hair, muscularity, a deep voice, speeding tickets, the desire to watch professional wrestling, Arnold Shwarzenegger movies, war, fist fights, and the need to purchase cocktails for women with names like “Boom Boom.

Upgraded and Improved: Didn't work the second time.

Obituary: A final summation of our lives that, for most of us, occupies about three inches of space in what will shortly become cage liner for our neighbor’s parakeet.

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

Baker: A person who kneads the dough.

Cricket: A game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Mercy: An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Lisp: To Call a spade a thpade.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator

Egotism: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Blushing: The color of virtue.

Noise: Earitation.

Sterile Solution: Vasectomy.