Subject: Definitions (Page 26)

Pocket Watch: A watch for people who don’t like having time on their hands.

Roulette: A wheel that seldom takes a turn for the bettor.

Dna: A complex organic molecule characterized as the building block of life and appropriately shaped like a spiral staircase to nowhere.

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After-Dinner Speaker: A person who only has a few words to say, but seldom stops when he has said them.

Fat: Energy gone to waist.

Stock Market: A popular game of chance in which moneyed speculators gamble with the nation’s economy, the object being to amass as much unearned income as possible before one’s fellow gamblers withdraw from the game and precipitate a nationwide depression.

Puritan: A person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Acupuncture: A jab well done.

Forty: The most difficult age for a woman to pass; it often takes years.

Chivalry: A man’s inclination to defend a woman against every man but himself.

Teacher: A disillusioned woman who used to think she liked children.

Americans: People with more time-saving devices and less time than any other people in the world.

Bore: A person who has nothing to say and says it.

Idiot: A man who sees your point in an argument but refuses to see your way.

Chicken: An egg factory.

Unimpeachable Source: The guy that started the rumor in the first place.

Bum: A man-about-town.

Luck: An explanation for the other fellows’ success.

Great Timesaver: Love at first sight.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

Puttering: Woman’s word for man’s work.