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Denial: How an optimist keeps from becoming a pessimist.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Yardstick: One foot on each side and one in the middle.

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Good Breeding: That quality that enables a person to wait in well-mannered silence while the loudmouth gets the service.

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Hip: Smartly attuned to the latest cutting-edge cliches.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Epigram: A half-truth so stated to irritate the person who believes the other half.

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Group Discussion: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

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Judge: A law student who grades his own papers.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
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Anatomy: The belly of a very small insect.

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Connoisseur: A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Ascribe: Newspaper reporter.

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Bore: One who insists upon talking about himself when you want to talk about yourself.

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Black Eye: A stamp of disapproval.

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Younger Generation: A group that is alike in many disrespects.

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Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Know-it-all: One who pretends to know something about everything but really knows nothing about anything.

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Communist: One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

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

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Amnesia: A condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.

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Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that hey cannot separately plunder a third.

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Matrimony: The splice of life.

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Dieting: The triumph of mind over platter.

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