(n.) the shorthand way of saying television.

that we even need a shorthand version of such a trivial word is indicative of how this invention has damaged us as a society.

Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination — free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say — a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights."
(also: marriage)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
(also: god)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) historic spelling, which has morphed to "rhyme" in the recent decades(?), with no rime nor reason..

(n.) also surprisingly, rime-frost; that is, hoarfrost!


(also: hoarfrost)

(n.) the eternal cycle of violence and poor career decisions which keeps us all occupied until death

(n.) the real OG! tracing words through time and cultures (aka the memetic flow).

someone who spends time doing what they love

in ancient egypt: a poo-bah, a big shot. the king (not elvis... except in semipopular musical stageplay "joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat")

a direct translation to english apparently would be "great house"

In a math textbook, a self-important term for a word problem

(n.) the nearest relative to humanity in the animal kingdom, sharing our boundless savagery but generally looking cuter in tiny clothes or while riding a unicycle

not to be confused with bonobos, assuming one wishes to keep their face glued onto their skull

(n.) the warehouse in which pee is stored before being, shall we say, shipped out for delivery

(n.) a strange mythical underwater kingdom where the people eat drugs and sugar-waffles all day, have wooden feet and live in windmills with legal prostitutes

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.

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The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
—Judibras

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Someone who spends his life drunk half of the time, while either sleeping or getting drunk the other half.

(also: Me)
(also: Drunk)

n. An infernal river whose waters caused those who drank them to forget all they knew; whereas the drinker of Spring Valley forgets nothing but the Third Commandment and the pious precepts of a sainted mother.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

a very famous song of the band 'morcheeba'

The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered, absently: "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward Bok, of The Ladies' Home Journal, is much respected for the purity and sweetness of his personal character.

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

(n.) if a shelf does not hold books or spices, is it a real shelf?

(adj.) as in, caustic wit.

(also: biting)
(also: cutting)
(also: acidic)

(also: sarcasm)
(also: wit)
(also: humour)