Subject: Definitions (Page 5)

Union: A dues-paying club workers wield to strike management.

Slander: To lie, or tell the truth, about someone.

Ant: A small insect that, though always at work, still finds time to go to picnics.

Birth Control: Evasion of the issue.

Adherent: A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

Brute Force: When your brain doesn’t work, just keep beating on the problem until one of you dies.

Gentleman: A man who remembers a woman’s birthday but forgets her age.

Divorce: A splitting headache.

Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Reducing: Wishful shrinking.

Unitarian: One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Parents: People who bear infants, bore teenagers, and board newlyweds.

Rumor: A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Bimbo: Any woman to whom you pay a compliment, while in the company of your wife.

Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.

Convent: A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Diaper: A changeable seat cover.

Idiot: A man who sees your point in an argument but refuses to see your way.

Intimacy: The first step toward parenthood.

Group Discussion: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Fore: A golf bawl.