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Tact: The ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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Conscience: A device that doesn’t keep you from doing anything – just keeps you from enjoying it.

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Dependent: Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Grass: The green stuff that wilts in the yard and flourishes in the garden.

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Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.

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Underwater Swimmer: One who practices submersive activitites.

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Blushing: The color of virtue.

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Castration: A eunuch experience.

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Filing Cabinet: A place where you lose things alphabetically.

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Executive: A man who talks to visitors so the other employees can get their work done.

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Dna: A complex organic molecule characterized as the building block of life and appropriately shaped like a spiral staircase to nowhere.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Insurance: A form of gambling in which we bet our chance of escaping disaster, and win only when we lose.

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Desertion: The poor man’s divorce.

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Minor Operation: One performed on someone else.

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Altar: Place where a man loses control of himself.

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Atrophy: An award given to those who do not exercise.

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Caterpillar: An upholstered worm.

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Peeping Tom: A window fan.

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Bliss: Having no idea what is really happening.

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Diplomat: If you have the advantage over someone, and you lead him to think that he has the advantage over you, without giving him the chance to take advantage of you.

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Auctioneer: The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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