Subject: Definitions (Page 75)

Rhetoric: Language in a dress suit.

Silicone Treatment: The bust that money can buy.

Snoring: Sheet music.

Girdle: The difference between fact and figure.

Job: A place where you work just hard enough to avoid getting fired while getting paid just enough to avoid quitting.

Hospital: A place where people who are run down wind up..

Acoustic: An instrument used in shooting pool.

Stock Market: A popular game of chance in which moneyed speculators gamble with the nation’s economy, the object being to amass as much unearned income as possible before one’s fellow gamblers withdraw from the game and precipitate a nationwide depression.

Accrue: People who work on a ship.

Scotsman: A man who, before sending his pajamas to the laundry, stuffs a sock in each pocket.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Dorito Syndrome: Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content.

American Language: English run over by a musical comedy.

Conservative: A liberal who has just been mugged.

Piano: A parlor utensil for subduing the impertinent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Experience: Something you don’t get until just after you needed it.

Elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

My definition of a redundancy is an air bag in a politician's car.

(1931– 2012) American actor, producer & director

Zoo: A pleasant and instructive wildlife park, lately denounced for depriving animals of their right to starve or be eaten alive in their natural habitats.

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

Taxidermist: A man who mounts animals.

Blushing: The color of virtue.

Tact: The art of saying nothing when there is nothing to say.