In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.
(also: technically)
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n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford University, maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (Thaddeus Polandensis) or Polliwig — Maria pseudo-hirsuta. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Porter, Thaddeus of Warsaw.
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italian interjection, conveying surprise. similar to "my goodness!"
ex:
"we ran out of pizza rolls!"
"mamma mia!"
ex:
"we ran out of pizza rolls!"
"mamma mia!"
(n.) a small tree able to be held between two fingers, used to scrape leftovers from between your teeth or debris from other hard-to-reach spaces.
... usually it is considered a bad idea to do both with the same toothpick.
... usually it is considered a bad idea to do both with the same toothpick.
(n.) a pancake covered in square braille indents for people with blind tongues
An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes —
O'er Ceylon blow your breath,
Where every prospect pleases,
Save only that of death.
—Bishop Sheber
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Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes —
O'er Ceylon blow your breath,
Where every prospect pleases,
Save only that of death.
—Bishop Sheber
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The Encyclopedia Galactica used to be the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom in the universe.
Wildly considered rather old fashioned, and pedestrian.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has already replaced the great Encyclopedia.
(also: wikipedia)
Wildly considered rather old fashioned, and pedestrian.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has already replaced the great Encyclopedia.
(also: wikipedia)
The literary sloven's word for "virtually."
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A mechanical marvel, that is powered by a mighty mainspring, which sends power through, typically, 4 gears and their pinions to a finely tuned balance. All that only to tell you the time of day.
Many watches also possess extra functions (or complications) such as:
-stopwatches (chronographs)
-showing the current date
-the ever beloved automatic winding of the mainspring
Though not as needed in the current times, they still are beautiful constructs, used to show status, or just to look nice.
(also: digital watches)
(also: time)
Many watches also possess extra functions (or complications) such as:
-stopwatches (chronographs)
-showing the current date
-the ever beloved automatic winding of the mainspring
Though not as needed in the current times, they still are beautiful constructs, used to show status, or just to look nice.
(also: digital watches)
(also: time)
A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting an indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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(n.) the mental state in which all people live at all times while doing their best not to let it show
Discipline, discipline; obedience, obedience; slavery and ignorance, pregnant with authority. A bourgeois body grotesquely fattened by a vulgar christian creature. A medley of fetishism, sectarianism and cowardice.
(n.) a stuck-up self-important upper-class twit who probably had a silver spoon in every orifice since day one and had daddy's money to bail them out of whatever trouble they got themselves into, and who lords their fancy education over working class folk to play at being more sophisticated than they really are.
bitter? oh. a tad.
etymology: the word comes from 'toffee-nose,' an aptly-named medical condition commonly resulting from the disease called syphilis
bitter? oh. a tad.
etymology: the word comes from 'toffee-nose,' an aptly-named medical condition commonly resulting from the disease called syphilis
a process of converting someone to a specific belief, perspective, or series of behavior processes. These methods vary by culture, and by government. an ancient alien race known as the reapers may or may not be the originators of these complex and multi-faceted techniques of behavior (and thought) modification.
(also: military)
(also: minecraft)
(also: military)
(also: minecraft)
Life...is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast
n.
Once Law was sitting on the bench,
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench!
Nor come before me creeping.
Upon your knees if you appear,
'Tis plain you have no standing here."
Then Justice came. His Honor cried:
"Your status? — devil seize you!"
"Amica curiæ," she replied —
"Friend of the court, so please you."
"Begone!" he shouted — "there's the door —
I never saw your face before!"
—G.J.
(also: law of triviality)
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Once Law was sitting on the bench,
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench!
Nor come before me creeping.
Upon your knees if you appear,
'Tis plain you have no standing here."
Then Justice came. His Honor cried:
"Your status? — devil seize you!"
"Amica curiæ," she replied —
"Friend of the court, so please you."
"Begone!" he shouted — "there's the door —
I never saw your face before!"
—G.J.
(also: law of triviality)
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(n.) curdled lactate. intended to be eaten.
(also: guidance)
“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain
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