Subject: Definitions (Page 40)

Bimbo: Any woman to whom you pay a compliment, while in the company of your wife.

Virtue: Lack of opportunity.

Aground: When a boat makes the discovery that all water has land under it.

Nice Girl: One who whispers sweet nothing-doings in your ear.

Statesman: A politician who is held upright by equal pressure from all directions.

Teenagers: Those old enough to know everything.

Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.

Acrobat: The person who turns a flop into a success.

Banquet: A fifty-cent dinner served in sufficient quantity to enable a caterer to charge twenty dollars for it.

Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.

Expert: A person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time; the man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Yodeling: Slope opera.

Foreword: An author’s apology.

Spanking: Stern punishment.

Congratulation: The civility of envy.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Bore: A person who deprives you with solitude without providing company.


Love: A form of self-government under a two-party system.

Intuition: The sixth sense that allows a woman five wrong guesses.

Memorial Service: A farewell party for someone who has already left.

Borrower: A man who tries to live within your means.