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Houseplants: Vegetable companions.

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Motherhood: If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

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Oratory: The art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

Communication Definitions Speech

Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.

Definitions Future Time

Shoplifting: Free enterprise.

Conflict Crime Definitions

Diplomacy: The ability to take something and make the other fellow believe he is giving it away.

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Lecher: A stud with liver spots.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Forty: The most difficult age for a woman to pass; it often takes years.

Age Definitions

Elector: One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man’s choice.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Elections/Voting Government Language

Absolute Zero: The lowest grade attainable on a test.

Definitions Education School

Widow: A woman who knows her husband’s whereabouts at all times.

Definitions Marriage

Friend: A good friend is like a good bra… hard to find, supportive, comfortable, and always close to your heart.

Definitions Friends People

Electrocardiograph: Ticker tape.

Definitions Wordplay

Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.

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

Definitions Politicians

A true gentleman is a man who may know how to play the bagpipes – but doesn’t.

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Zoo: A place devised for animals to study the habits of human beings.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator
Animals Definitions People Places

Civilization: A process whereby one generation finds the questions to the previous generation’s answers.

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Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

Definitions Money

Marriage: The mourning after the knot before.

Definitions Marriage

Handkerchief: Cold Storage.

Definitions Health