Subject: Definitions (Page 56)

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Courtship: A man pursuing a woman until she catches him.

Dating Definitions Relationships

Hot Pants: Breeches of promise.

Appearance Clothing Definitions

Traffic Light: A trick to get pedestrians halfway across the street safely.

Autos Definitions Things

Diet: selection of foods for people who are thick and tired of it.

Definitions Food/Drink

Kleptomaniac: A thief with breeding.

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Sympathizer: A fellow that’s for you as long as it doesn’t cost anything.

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Detour: Something that lengthens your mileage, diminishes your gas, and strengthens your vocabulary.

Activities Definitions Travel

Alarm clock: An instrument used to wake up people who have no kids.

Children Definitions Family Things

Discretion: A sense that comes to a man too late to do him any good.

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Old age is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Age Definitions Old

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty.

Definitions Government

Boss: A person who comes early to see who comes late.

Definitions Work

Sleet: A slipcover.

Definitions Science/Weather

Election: When the air is full of speeches and vice versa

Communication Definitions Elections/Voting Government Speech

Pessimist: A person who looks at a doughnut and sees nothing but the hole.

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Ambidextrous: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language

Delta: A river with its mouth full of mud.

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Life: A sexually transmitted disease with 100% fatality rate.

Definitions Life

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning; old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Age Definitions Old

Four-wheel Drive: Getting stuck in more inaccessible places.

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

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