Subject: Definitions (Page 65)

Foosball: A combination of soccer and shish kabobs.

Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Fishing: A venerable contest in which modern man pits his intelligence and technology against the native wit of primitive aquatic vertebrates, and generally finishes second.

Florists: Petal pushers.

Center Of Mass: The Priest.

Historian: An editor of yesterday’s news.

Respirator: An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth… whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Armor: A knight gown.

Cloud: What’s in front of every silver lining.

Efficiency Expert: A man smart enough to tell you how to run your business and too smart to start his own.

Wind: Weather on the go.

Tact: The ability to arrive at conclusions without expressing them.

Honeymoon: The vacation a man takes before starting to work for a new boss.

Intellectual: A guy who can keep his mind on a book at a beach.

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.

Bankruptcy: A fate worse than debt.

Class Reunion: A gathering where you come to the conclusion that most of the people your own age are a lot older than you are.

Funeral: A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Ambassador: An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Neighbors: The strangers who live next door.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter