Subject: Definitions (Page 62)

Strip Teaser: One who makes a bare living.

Stock Market: A popular game of chance in which moneyed speculators gamble with the nation’s economy, the object being to amass as much unearned income as possible before one’s fellow gamblers withdraw from the game and precipitate a nationwide depression.

Impossible Lie: In golf, a ball that is in a position that is both completely obstructed by an immovable object and continuously observed by an incorruptible player.

Three stages of sex in a man’s life: Tri Weekly, Try Weekly, and Try Weakly.

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

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

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.

Liberal: A man who feel’s it’s his responsibility to spend a Conservative’s money.

Consult: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon.

Subsidy: A formula devised by politicians to give you back some of your own money in such a way that you are supposed to think it’s a gift.

Adam’s Rib: The original bone of contention.

History: An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Refinement: The ability to yawn without opening your mouth.

Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.

Bowling Alley: A quiet place of amusement where you can hear a pin drop.

Adolescents: People who never seem to realize that one day they will be as dumb as their parents.

Hindsight: What one experiences from changing too many diapers.

Bore: A person who deprives you with solitude without providing company.


Dictator: One who thinks he can take it – no matter to whom it belongs.

Fishing: A delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.