(n.) something given to a child to shut them up, or given to an adult to distract from the horrors of aging.
Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
(also: alcohol)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: alcohol)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
(also: PHONOGRAPH)
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(also: PHONOGRAPH)
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beautiful (white)
Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.
It is related of Bismarck, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't.
(also: war)
(also: sports)
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It is related of Bismarck, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't.
(also: war)
(also: sports)
(also: the devils dictionary)
No better.
(noun phrase) The regrettable instances where students deviate from expected conduct, testing the boundaries of classroom dynamics. It encompasses a spectrum of actions, from disruptive behavior and disrespect to defiance and disregard for academic norms. Such conduct poses challenges for teachers, demanding swift intervention, consistent discipline, and the delicate art of redirecting behavior towards positive engagement.
(also: your child is a good listener)
(also: your child is a good listener)
(742 – 814) United Europe to form the Carolingian Empire. First western Emperor since the fall of Rome.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: charlemagne quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: charlemagne quotes)
adj. Not understood.
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best way to make expressions is defining things here
A liar in the caterpillar state.
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c. 3000 BC Egyptian pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt to found the First Dynasty.
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(also: menes quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: menes quotes)
n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.
One day a wag—what would the wretch be at?—
Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT,
And said it was a god's name! Straight arose
Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows,
And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns,
And disputations dire that lamed their limbs)
To serve his temple and maintain the fires,
Expound the law, manipulate the wires.
Amazed, the populace the rites attend,
Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend,
And, inly edified to learn that two
Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do)
Have sweeter values and a grace more fit
Than Nature's hairs that never have been split,
Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts,
And sell their garments to support the priests.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
One day a wag—what would the wretch be at?—
Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT,
And said it was a god's name! Straight arose
Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows,
And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns,
And disputations dire that lamed their limbs)
To serve his temple and maintain the fires,
Expound the law, manipulate the wires.
Amazed, the populace the rites attend,
Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend,
And, inly edified to learn that two
Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do)
Have sweeter values and a grace more fit
Than Nature's hairs that never have been split,
Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts,
And sell their garments to support the priests.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
N. A group that shares similar genetic material via sexual reproduction. With the parental beings usually (except in Alabama) originating from different familial units
(also: alabama)
(also: problem of alabama)
(also: family bussinesses in alabama)
2. N. In case the first definition is full of crazy, hateful, or downright evil people and one gets disowned (whether by choice or not) the discarded individual will usually seek to build their own more perfect version by choosing different people/things/animals to surround themselves with.
(also: alabama)
(also: problem of alabama)
(also: family bussinesses in alabama)
2. N. In case the first definition is full of crazy, hateful, or downright evil people and one gets disowned (whether by choice or not) the discarded individual will usually seek to build their own more perfect version by choosing different people/things/animals to surround themselves with.
"autonomous sensory meridian response:" a pleasurably shivery tingly sensation you get when you hear a sound you really like.
a surprising amount of online content has been created and put up on the internet, in order to help viewers experience this sensation.
... it's not pornography. we are assured that it is not pornography.
a surprising amount of online content has been created and put up on the internet, in order to help viewers experience this sensation.
... it's not pornography. we are assured that it is not pornography.
The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
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