Subject: Definitions (Page 53)

Good Neighbor: One who makes his noise at the same time you make yours.

Cartoon: What’s sung when driving your car.

Neurotic: Someone who worries about things that didn’t happen in the past instead of worrying about things that won’t happen in the future.

Opportunist: One who goes ahead and does what you always planned to do. 

Good Neighbor: A fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb it.

Originality: The art of concealing your source.

Heredity: The thing a child gets from the other side of the family.

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Current Events: Electric shocks.

Expert: A person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Egotist: A person of low taste more interested in himself than in me.

Beer: The method of turning grain into urine.

Armadillo: Possum on the half shell.

Hors d'oeuvres: A sandwich cut into 20 pieces.

Farm: A hunk of land on which, if you get up early enough mornings and work late enough nights, you’ll make a fortune – if you strike oil on it.

(1896 – 1988) American actor

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Antiques: Furniture that is too old for poor folks but the right age for rich people.

Truck Driver: A man who has the opportunity to run into so many nice people.

Group Therapy: A drama-in-the-round staged for the entertainment of a professional therapist, who commands the players to put on a new show each week and charges them for the privilege.

Pediatrician: Man of little patients.

Book: What they make a movie out of for television.

(1904 – 1974) American author & radio producer