Subject: Definitions (Page 42)

Troops: Expendable bodies sent by the government to stop bullets during obscure foreign uprisings.

Boy: A noise with dirt on it.

Puritan: A person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Consultant: Someone who knows 101 ways to make love, but can’t get a date.

Multitasking: Messing up several chores at the same time.

Derange: Where de buffalo roam.

Hangover: The moaning after the night before.

Altar: To change through marriage.

Unitarian: One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

Punctuality: The art of guessing correctly how late the other party is going to be.

Borrower: A person who always wants to be left a loan.

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

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

X Chromosome: a genetic double-cross that empowers women with the ability to bear children and reserves for men the right to be color-blind hemophiliacs.

Tomorrow: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

Neighbor: One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

State-Of-The-Art: Soon-to-be-obsolete.

Cheerfulness: The art of concealing your true feelings.

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

Tips: Wages we pay other people’s help.