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Ambiguity: The lack of clarity in speech… or perhaps, something else.

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Old age is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Age Definitions Old

Beer: The method of turning grain into urine.

Beer Definitions Food/Drink

Budget: An attempt to live below your yearnings.

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Vacation: Where you take the family to get away from it all, only to find it there, too.

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Experience: Something you don’t get until just after you needed it.

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Courage: Fear in action.

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Wrinkles: Something other people have… you have character lines.

Appearance Body Definitions

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright
Books Communication Definitions Reading/Writing

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty.

Definitions Government

Sleeping Bag: A nap sack.

Activities Definitions Sleep

X Chromosome: a genetic double-cross that empowers women with the ability to bear children and reserves for men the right to be color-blind hemophiliacs.

Definitions Men People

Insomnia: The inability to sleep even when it’s time to get up.

Activities Definitions Sleep

Desire: The thing that is so often nipped in the budget.

Definitions Emotions

Hot Pants: Breeches of promise.

Appearance Clothing Definitions

Automated: A couple making love in a car.

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Fish: An animal that grows fastest between the time it is caught and the time a fisherman describes it to his friends.

Activities Animals Definitions

Electric Eel: Fish that thrives in strong currents.

Animals Definitions

Fiddler: A violinist before he becomes the virtuoso.

Definitions Entertainment Music

Short Vacation: Half a loaf.

Activities Definitions

Positive: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language Speech