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Madam: Someone for whom the belles toil.

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Experience: In the working world, something you can’t get unless you’ve already got it, in which case you probably don’t want any more of it.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Umpire: The original strike arbitrator.

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Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

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Farmer: A man who is outstanding in his field.

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Zeal: A nervous disorder affecting the young and inexperienced.

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Statesman: A politician who is held upright by equal pressure from all directions.

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Committee: A cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

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Ability: What you have to get by on if you don’t kiss-up to the boss.

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Anesthetic: The painkiller that crazy women refuse during labor.

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Filing Cabinet: A place where you lose things alphabetically.

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Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.

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Mausoleum: The final and funniest folly of the rich.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Etiquette: A convenient code of conduct which makes lying a virtue and snobbishness a righteous deed.

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Diet: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

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Communism: The cause that suppresses.

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Brainstorm: To feign preparedness.

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Mouse: An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate.

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Avoidable: What a bullfighter tries to do.

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Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Radical: Anyone whose opinion differs from ours.

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