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Chatterbox: Another name for a telephone booth.

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Fad: A folly committed by enough of the right people to confer upon it the badge of status.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Insomnia: contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

Activities Definitions Sleep

If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment.

(1936 – 2005) Irish comedian
Communication Definitions Language

Users: Computer users are divided into three types: Novice users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert users: people who break other people's computers.

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America: A nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but can think of nothing to do when it gets there.

America Definitions Places

Savages: People who don’t know what is wrong until missionaries show them.

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Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

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Easy: Used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.

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Kiss: A course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

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Perfume: Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
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Quickie: No sooner spread than done.

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Life: A play with a lousy third act.

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Middle Age: That period in life when your idea of getting ahead is staying even.

Age Definitions

Cold: An ailment cured in two weeks with a doctor’s care, and in fourteen days without it.

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

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Laziness: The habit of resting before you get tired.

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History: An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Anatomy: Something that everyone has, but it looks better on a girl.

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Tailor: An occupation that suits everyone.

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Casserole: A method used by ingenious cooks to get rid of leftovers.

Definitions Food/Drink