Subject: Definitions (Page 42)

Umbrella: A shelter for one and a shower for two.

Bowling Alley: A quiet place of amusement where you can hear a pin drop.

English Channel: The BBC.

No Exit: A sign indicating the most convenient way out of a building.

Intimacy: The first step toward parenthood.

Taxpayer: A person who has the government on his payroll.

Oaf: An old fashioned jerk.

Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Tailor: An occupation that suits everyone.

Tips: Wages we pay other people’s help.

Martial Arts: A family of Asiatic self-defense disciplines consisting largely of sweeping ornamental gestures of the arms and legs – amusing to look at but disappointingly ineffective when one’s opponent is armed with a semi-automatic.

Sarong: A simple garment carrying the implicit promise that it will not long stay in place.

Archbishop: An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

Advertising: The rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist

Cross-Eyed Teacher: A teacher that loses control over his or her pupils.

American: One who gets mad when a foreigner curses the institutions he curses.

Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

Liberal: Someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Diet: The penalty for exceeding the feed limit.

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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