(american) an american variation of football, refined to have even more complicated rules so that the on-field action becomes even more slow and excruciating. while nobody in recorded history actually knows how this game is played, and americans are too embarrassed to admit it, it seems to involve large men trying to dogpile each other while a pig's bladder is thrown out of bounds.

Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of refuge — Bezer, Golan, Ramoth, Kadesh, Schekem and Hebron — to which one who had taken life inadvertently could flee when hunted by relatives of the deceased. This admirable expedient supplied him with wholesome exercise and enabled them to enjoy the pleasures of the chase; whereby the soul of the dead man was appropriately honored by observations akin to the funeral games of early Greece.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) a framework to evolve your ideas & your take on the world, commonly associated with Hegel.
a paradox is all three cleverly overlaid into one, as is a koan.

(also: paradox)
(also: koan)
(also: wisdom)
(also: humility)

(n.) weapons intended primarily to fight food

an ever increasing field that threatens to consume all unless someone comes up with a solution but that is someone else's problem…oh god it is already here.

the destination

People are usually confused about these two terms as they are equally prescious. Dreamers with nothing but dreams are useless as we know.

(also: creativity)

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.

Pittbull is an American music artist. It is widely believed that he is enjoyed but not a very good one.

For we're do the sails of life lead?
Rudderless in direction.
The captain knows
Yet lest we see
Blow winds to far off destinations.

- Pittbull (song: Timber feat. Ke$ha)

(n.) a for-hire provider of therapeutic services, on a lower tier than professional psychiatrists but generally a higher tier than clowns or priests

(also: clown), (also: priest)

Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) the quintessence of the '80s.

and it can be a fountain for mesmerizing characters:
and it can be endearingly cringey (link looks broken, but it's not):
and it does spill out over from English, too:


and solarpunk will have its disco revival.

(also: 80s)
(also: quintessence)
(also: solarpunk)

(also: music)
(also: energy)
(also: dancing)

(1847 – 1931) – Inventor and businessman helped introduce electricity and electric light bulbs.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: thomas edison quotes)

(n.) a european who drinks olive oil from the flask and despises spaniards

What is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Cats. Cats are nice
(also: cat)

(n.) professional term for the more scrapey kind of boo-boo

The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) a lifestyle of comfort and enjoyment, justifiable only through abstruse philosophical ramblings

(also: bacchanalia)
(also: food)
(also: drugs)
(also: sex)
(also: alcohol)

Outdoor eating event and memory challenge. You always forget something.

(also: picnic checklist)

In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it — this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable value to the Socialist of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order.
(also: governing people)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)