Subject: Definitions (Page 43)

Bachelor: A man who has faults he doesn’t know about.

Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Belly: The veranda over the toy shop.

Egotist: A conceited ass who thinks he knows as much as you do.

Ventriloquist: A man with a dummy who always talks to himself.

University: A college with a stadium seating more than sixty thousand.

Gardener: Someone who thinks that what goes down must come up.

Truthful: Dumb and illiterate.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Atrophy: An award given to those who do not exercise.

Ambition: Goaled rush.

Parents: The one thing children wear out faster than shoes.

Childhood: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

Savages: People who don’t know what is wrong until missionaries show them.

Honesty: The fear of being caught.

Director: The one who always faces the music.

Originality: Undetected plagiarism.

Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Financial Wizard: A person who can earn money faster than the family can spend it.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Lawsuit: A contest generally won by the party that can afford to reimburse the lawyers on both sides of the dispute.

Urinal: The one place where all men are peers.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter