Subject: Definitions (Page 72)

Quality of Life: What an industrialized nation is said to offer when enough of its citizens are suffering from terminal stress.

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

Parking Meter: An automatic device that bets a dollar to your nickel that you can’t get back before the time runs out.

Electile Dysfunction: The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party.

Gifted Children: Unfortunate tykes who lack the good sense to hide their talents from overly ambitious parents.

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.

Consult: To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Antibody: Against everyone.

Teenagers: People who express a burning drive to be different by dressing alike.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Fishing: A delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Dirt: Mud with the juice squeezed out.

Makeup: What it takes to look natural.

Overeat: To dine.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Amnesia: A condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.

Chic: Considered smart without the deadening implication of intelligence.

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

Free Verse: Verse written without rhyme or reason.

Budget: A method of worrying before you spend, instead of afterward.

Banker: A pawn broker with a manicure.

Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law’s peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

White Supremacists: The most convincing argument against the theory of white racial superiority.

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