Subject: Definitions (Page 54)

Originality: Undetected plagiarism.

Ascribe: Newspaper reporter.

Communist: A guy who borrows your pot to cook your goose.

Bachelor: A person who believes in life, liberty, and the happiness of pursuit.

Parents: One of the hardships of a minor’s life.

Snoring: Sound sleeping.

Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.

Etiquette: The noise you don’t make while eating soup.

Teetotaler: One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Deterrence: The art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Repressed: Sitting on one’s inner demon to keep it decorously immobilized, as practiced by lifelong Presbyterians or anyone who attempts to exchange pleasantries with a tyrannical boss.

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

Absent: The notation generally following your name in a class record.

Silence: True wisdom’s best reply.

False Pregnancy: Laboring under a misconception.

Dust: Mud with the juice squeezed out.

Motherhood: If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Umbrella: A movable roof.

Electrocution: Burning at the stake with all modern improvements.

Auditor: A person who goes in after the war is lost to bayonet the wounded.

Zoo: A place where humans go and animals are barred.

Death – to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor