A mundane way to pass time. You either love it, hate it or you don't care and do it for the money.

(also: boss)

K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called Klatch, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, circa 730 B.C. This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other remaining intact. As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural—not to say touching—means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional mnemonic, or if the name was always Klatch and the destruction one of nature's puns. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no objection to believing both—and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on that side of the question.

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Nature's provision for wealthy American maids ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

(n.) a reptile with a hard shell surrounding its body, widely considered a symbol of persistence in the face of things that would discourage persistence.

Their ability to stack on top of one another has deep seated cosmological implications: (also: turtles all the way down)

(n.) a phenomenon that blesses only the most dedicated. to know you have truly suffered in this life, your reward is the physical evidence of your suffering.

definitive
(also: guide)

Noun /fərˈbōtn,vər-/ French underground film community formed in defiance of German occupation during WW2 declaring their films forbidden under lethal threat. "Verboten films were a death sentence if the dictatorship caught you."

A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
(also: humans)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) music for the moody angst-ridden teenager types, evolved from styles played in the caribbean

(n.) a way of saying "creature" with an excess of saccharine folksy American charm

(also: 2019)

outré, i.e. violently bigoted

A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are gradations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
(also: governing people)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

a computer program that pretends to be a different genre of pornography

A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a bestial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane as is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh.
Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its human form during the night. "The next time that you take a wolf," the good man said, "see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning you will find a Lutheran."
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) one who collects evidence in order to ensure someone is punished for the committing of a crime, preferably the person who actually committed it

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: pride)

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)

n. The spore of insomnia, as distinguished from Conscience, the bacillus of the same disease. Indigenous to New Jersey, where the marshes in which they multiply are known as meadows and the mosquitoes themselves are affirmed by the natives to be larks.

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"I am the master of all things!" Man cried.
"Then, pray, what am I?" the Mosquito replied.

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

has you

(also: parenting)