Subject: Definitions (Page 39)

Originality: The art of concealing your source.

Dance: The action of moving rhythmically to music with a partner, a skill which a woman possesses naturally, but which a man acquires only for the short time in his young adulthood when he wishes to meet and impress young women, and abandons thereafter due to mysterious knee injuries.

Desk: A dangerous place from which to view the world.

Radical: Anyone whose opinion differs from ours.

Shakespeare: A man whose writings are so excellent it’s believed someone else must have written them.

Tricycle: A tot rod.

Newlywed: What you and your spouse will officially be considered until your first anniversary, or until you go an entire week without sex (whichever comes first).

Life: A sexually transmitted disease with 100% fatality rate.

Trojan Horse: A phony pony.

Jealousy: The tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Accordion: An instrument whose music is long drawn out.

Atomic Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Bachelor: A guy who is footloose and fiancee-free.

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

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Absolute Pitch: Completely dark.

Delta: A river with its mouth full of mud.

Foreign Aid: The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Spilt Milk: Udder waste.

Congress: A body of men brought together to slow down the government.

Internship: A sleepless ordeal imposed on young M.D.’s for the purpose of weeding out the weak and infirm among them, and eroding the health of the survivors sufficiently to ensure better empathy in the years to come.

Bad Driver: The person you run into.