Subject: Definitions (Page 31)

Billboards: Litter on a stick.

Heredity: The bad traits a child gets from the other side of the family.

Impossible Lie: In golf, a ball that is in a position that is both completely obstructed by an immovable object and continuously observed by an incorruptible player.

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

Yodeling: Slope opera.

Middle Age: That period in life when your idea of getting ahead is staying even.

Vacation: Where you take the family to get away from it all, only to find it there, too.

Minor Operation: One performed on someone else.

Underwear: An article of clothing which, when kept clean, ensures the wearer will never have an accident.

Candidate: A person who asks for money from the wealthy and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

Yawn: It’s always dullest just before the yawn.

Linguist: A person who can be misunderstood in many languages.

Electrician: A person who wires for money.

Pessimist: A person who looks at a doughnut and sees nothing but the hole.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Tact: The ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Double Jeopardy: When your doctor calls in a consulting physician.

Diplomat: If you have the advantage over someone, and you lead him to think that he has the advantage over you, without giving him the chance to take advantage of you.

Limit: Maximum number of a particular fish that an angler can take in a day. This number varies from place to place and species to species, but it is a largely theoretical restriction with little practical application.

Armadillo: Possum on the half shell.

Home: A place where man goes to raise a fuss because something went wrong at the office.