Subject: Definitions (Page 61)

Short Vacation: Half a loaf.

Television: A means of getting a babysitter so Mom and Dad can get out to the movies.

Unimpeachable Source: The guy that started the rumor in the first place.

No Exit: A sign indicating the most convenient way out of a building.

Hobby: Something you do to have fun whether you enjoy it or not.

Consolation: The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Judge: A lawyer who once knew a politician.

Tomorrow: What always comes but never arrives.

Positive Thinking: self-improvement through self-deception.

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

Window Shopping: Eye browsing.

Awe: Wow of silence.

Tax Reform: Taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before.

Teacher: A person who swore she would starve before teaching, and who has been doing both ever since.

Respirator: An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth… whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Choir: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the Congregation to lip-sync.

Seamstress: 250 pounds in a size 6.

Osteopath: A man who works his fingers to your bones.

Car Pool: Complicated system of transportation where Mom always winds up going the furthest with the biggest bunch of kids who have had the most sugar.

Smile: To expose a portion of one’s skeleton as a gesture of goodwill toward a fellow human.

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

Fettuccine Alfredo: Macaroni and cheese for adults.

Bureaucracy: A system that enables ten men to do the work of one.