Subject: Definitions (Page 3)

Florists: Petal pushers.

Sense Of Humor: Being able to laugh at your friends’ misfortunes.

Anoint: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Tact: The knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Yearbook: A book of pictures that get nerdier with time.

Consultant: Someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

Truck Driver: A man who has the opportunity to run into so many nice people.

Sabbatical: A Latin word meaning, “I quit, but you won’t know it for certain for a year.”

Narcissist: Psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst.

Wisdom: Knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Loquacity: A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Character: What you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Advice: A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous as the one thing which it is “More blessed to give than receive.”

Thingy: Female Interpretation: Any part under a car’s hood; Male Interpretation: The strap fastener on a woman’s bra.

Bookie: A pickpocket who lets you use your own hands.

Misnomer: The right name for the wrong word.

Bigamist: A man who who has had one too many.

Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Amen: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows.

Quagmire: Any situation more easily entered into than exited from; e.g., a guerrilla war, a bad marriage or a conversation with an insurance salesman.

Adverse: Promotional jingle.