Subject: Definitions (Page 48)

Egotist: A person of low taste more interested in himself than in me.

Experience: Something you don’t get until just after you needed it.

Man: An animal [whose]… chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Roulette: A wheel that seldom takes a turn for the bettor.

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

English Channel: The BBC.

Electile Dysfunction: The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party.

Absentee: A missing golfing peg.

Cookie: A standard method for converting sugar, floor, and butter into body fat.

Bookie: A pickpocket who lets you use your own hands.

Judge: A man in a trying position.

Tabloid: A screamlined newspaper.

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

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Hospital: A place where people who are run down wind up..

Thrift: Common sense applied to spending.

Assembly Line: The notion that if a job is worth doing, it’s worth repeating 9,614 times a day.

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

Parole: A period at the end of a sentence.

Undertaker: The last guy to let you down.

Trombones: Bones in an orchestra.

Childish Games: Those at which your wife beats you.