Subject: Definitions (Page 57)

Virtue: Lack of opportunity.

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

Armadillo: Possum on the half shell.

Work: An unpopular way to earn money.

Class Reunion: Where everyone gets together to see who is falling apart

Oyster: A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.

Yacht: A floating debt.

News: The same thing happening today that happened yesterday, but to different people.

Vegetarian: Indian word for bad hunter.

Gluttony: A sign something is eating us.

Belly: The veranda over the toy shop.

Adolescence: The age between puberty and adultery.

A man with both feet planted firmly in the air.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

Character: What you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Consultant: A jobless person who shows executives how to work.

Dog Pound: A used cur lot.

Cavity: Empty space ready to be stuffed with dentist’s bills.

Castration: A eunuch experience.

Defame: To lie about another. To tell the truth about another.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Rite: A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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