all of you shut up, it's me that's spartacus
one who attempts to defend an idea without letting on that they find it defensible
mushy, often colorful excrescence on the underside of tables
To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external coexistences," as Satan "squat like a toad" at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel's spear. To respond in damages is to contribute to the maintenance of the plaintiff's attorney and, incidentally, to the gratification of the plaintiff.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) one who ensures that entertainment does not become too spicy for the mental digestion of the audience
(v.) to do what a censor does, much as an engineer engineers, or a doctor doctors. no, wait.
(v.) to do what a censor does, much as an engineer engineers, or a doctor doctors. no, wait.
To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
'Twas rumored Leonard Wood had signed
A true renunciation
Of title, rank and every kind
Of military station —
Each honorable station.
By his example fired — inclined
To noble emulation,
The country humbly was resigned
To Leonard's resignation —
His Christian resignation.
—Politian Greame
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
'Twas rumored Leonard Wood had signed
A true renunciation
Of title, rank and every kind
Of military station —
Each honorable station.
By his example fired — inclined
To noble emulation,
The country humbly was resigned
To Leonard's resignation —
His Christian resignation.
—Politian Greame
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
(also: death)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: death)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) a way of saying "creature" with an excess of saccharine folksy American charm
The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be —
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote —
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
"Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow."
—Halcyon Jones
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be —
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote —
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
"Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow."
—Halcyon Jones
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: leaving the planet)
(n.) a performer who either highlights the melancholy of life by pretending to be happy, or highlights the joy of life by pretending to be sad and miserable
(n.) your opponent's argument reconstructed and polished with so much care and rigour that they thank you, even if you end up proving them wrong.
(also: good faith acts)
(also: good faith actors)
(also: rationality)
https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/
(also: strawman)
(also: good faith acts)
(also: good faith actors)
(also: rationality)
https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/
(also: strawman)
(1707 – 1783) Swiss mathematician who made prolific discoveries in calculus and graph theory.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: leonhard euler quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: leonhard euler quotes)
An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil.
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(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
(also: the devils dictionary)
(also: the devils dictionary)
(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.
that we even need a shorthand version of such a trivial word is indicative of how this invention has damaged us as a society.
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