Subject: Definitions

Definitions:

Humorous definitions, often through the use of puns or wordplay

Key Ring: A handy little gadget that allows you to lose all your keys at once.

Genealogy: An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Diet: selection of foods for people who are thick and tired of it.

Indifference: A woman’s feeling towards a man, which is interpreted by the man as “playing hard to get.”

Campers: Nature’s way of feeding mosquitoes.

Pregnancy: The shape of things to come.

Patron: A customer who doesn’t ask prices.

Parole: A period at the end of a sentence.

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.

Slogan: A good old American substitute for the facts.

Fortune teller: Séance fiction.

Acrobat: The person who turns a flop into a success.

Perfume: What a woman hopes will make her the scenter of attention.

Window: A looking-out glass.

Congress: A place where there are too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen – and not enough U.S. Congressmen.

Bigamist: A man who makes the same mistake twice.

Linguist: A person who can be misunderstood in many languages.

Diet Planner: A fast talker.

Education: A progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Obituary: A final summation of our lives that, for most of us, occupies about three inches of space in what will shortly become cage liner for our neighbor’s parakeet.

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Bore: A person who deprives you with solitude without providing company.