A species of hypnotism in which the oral suggestion takes the hindering form of argument or appeal.
In the legislative body of the future, votes will be won, as now, by hypnotic suggestion, but there will be no darkening of counsel and impeding of the public business by debate; opposition will be stared into assent.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
A series of sound that makes sense.
A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires,
The sound surceases and the sense expires.
Then the domestic dog, to east and west,
Expounds the passions burning in his breast.
The rising moon o'er that enchanted land
Pauses to hear and yearns to understand.
—Mowbray Myles
(also: rime)
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The rimer quenches his unheeded fires,
The sound surceases and the sense expires.
Then the domestic dog, to east and west,
Expounds the passions burning in his breast.
The rising moon o'er that enchanted land
Pauses to hear and yearns to understand.
—Mowbray Myles
(also: rime)
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A tide in the affairs of an army swayed by the attraction of loot.
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(n.) very popular with the gentlemen
although I am unable to rationalize your misfortune, perhaps God, with His infinite intelligence, might be able to rationalize it.
(n.) when the flesh is (sometimes inconveniently) willing, though the spirit may or may not be
The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell,
You will repent and join the Church, Parnell?
How needless! — Nick will keep you off the coals
And add you to the woes of other souls.
—Jomater Abemy
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Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell,
You will repent and join the Church, Parnell?
How needless! — Nick will keep you off the coals
And add you to the woes of other souls.
—Jomater Abemy
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(n.) a professional who upholds the rule of law by finding ways for people to get around it
A competition in which, two teams of men share balls in an attempt to stuff them into more holes than the opposing team.
(also: football)
a system in which people are defined by points based on how they live life, and that it can affect their daily life, such as flying out of the country, decisions in court. a lot like the credit score for bank cards.
series of letters of decreasing size that you could certainly memorize. Every eye chart is the same sequence, and it's only 66 letters.
an indisputable truth that cannot be argued about, as opposed to an opinion, which is subjective, and pointless to argue about.
To get the sense of something written, if it has any.Commonly, it has not.
(also: reading)
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(also: reading)
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(also: infinity)
(n.) a thing which is probably at the center of our galaxy. probably an all-consuing supermassive black hole, like my ex.
(adj.) in exchange for having done something important and then died
A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction and unbounded incapacity.
n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
(also: misfortune)
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(also: misfortune)
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sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join