Subject: Definitions (Page 65)

Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry.

Spinster: An unlusted number.

Obesity: A surplus gone to waist.

Yawn: It’s always dullest just before the yawn.

Spilt Milk: Udder waste.

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

Know-it-all: One who pretends to know something about everything but really knows nothing about anything.

Psychology: The science that tells you what you already know in words you can’t understand.

Hangover: The moaning after the night before.

Doctor: The only man who hasn’t a guaranteed cure for a cold.

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

Beer: The method of turning grain into urine.

Agreeable Person: One who agrees with me.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.  

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Sidesaddle: How men, rather than women, would ride in a truly logical world.

Bimbo: Any woman to whom you pay a compliment, while in the company of your wife.

Bus: A vehicle that runs faster when you run after it and runs slowly when you are inside it.

Yodeling: Slope opera.

Groan: An expression of appreciation for the horrible.

Congress: A strange forum where people get up and speak, nobody listens, and then everyone disagrees at the top of their lungs.