Subject: Definitions (Page 71)

Honesty: The fear of being caught.

Gossip: Anything that goes in one ear and over the back fence.

Courage: Fear in action.

Four-letter Word: Par for the coarse.

Consciousness: The annoying time between naps.

Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.

Urinal: The one place where all men are peers.

Apology: Politeness too late.

Middle age: When a woman’s hair starts turning from gray to black.

Tears: Remorse code.

False Pregnancy: Laboring under a misconception.

Colleague: The person to whom one passes the buck.

Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law’s peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

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.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Snoring: Sheet music.

Income: The sum of money which it costs more than to live.

Absolute Zero: The lowest grade attainable on a test.

Egotism: An anesthetic that nature gives to a man to deaden the pain of being a darn fool.

Domestic Harmony: Music produced only if the husband plays second fiddle.

Unwed Mother: One who helps perpetuate the genes of an unwed father, without the latter’s talent for becoming invisible at will.