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Easy Payments: The ones that are easier said than done.

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Bum: A man-about-town.

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Consumer: One who delights advertisers by acquiring unnecessary products.

Definitions Shopping

Profanity: The father tongue.

Communication Definitions Language Speech

Boy: A noise with dirt on it.

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Sales Resistance: The triumph of mind over patter.

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Grandmother: A babysitter who doesn’t hang around the refrigerator.

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Mirror: A truthful reflector shunned by vampires, hypocrites and aging fashion models.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Ideologue: Typically an obscure humorless zealot who finds fulfillment by spouting the ideas of famous humorless zealots.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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English Channel: The BBC.

Definitions Entertainment Television

Honeymoon: The morning after the knot before.

Communication Definitions Marriage

Hobby: Something you do to have fun whether you enjoy it or not.

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Emotions Language Love

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

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Cricket: A game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

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Geologist: Fault finder.

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Prophylactic: A rubber check.

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Bargain: Something you can’t use, at a price you can’t resist.

Activities Definitions Shopping

Good Neighbor: One who makes his noise at the same time you make yours.

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Yacht: A floating debt.

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Unabated: A fishhook without a worm.

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