(n.) explorers who are less concerned with the wondrous new lands and customs and more concerned with the workload they're escaping

The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

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He swore that all other religions were gammon,
And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.
—Jared Oopf
(also: the devils dictionary)

A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
(also: creation of the universe)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(6th Century BC – ) Author of Tao Te Ching and founder of Taoism
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: lao tzu quotes)

(adj.) sinister; causing unease.

one may think of a house that has these qualities as a spookhouse. but we don't advise this.

(n.) a specimen of utter dependency and helplessness. often equipped with such sad eyes and default facial expressions.
perhaps the sadness of the toys they have access to playing with -- the supposed, pale mimicry of real prey -- is too much for them to bear.

(n.) a cucumber that has been mummified in vinegar brine and packaged in an ornate sarcophagus

(n.) an animal much like a bee, but characterized by pure evil and bent on wreaking misery throughout the cosmos.

(also: hornet), and for that matter (also: yellowjacket), cuz they're all the same damn thing, no doubt employing some fiendish masquerade to better infiltrate human society.

Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific — and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(1736 – 1819) Scottish engineer. Watt improved the Newcome steam engine creating an efficient steam engine
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(also: james watt quotes)

Just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry.
(also: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy)

Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.
(also: the devils dictionary)

(n.) someone of high rank or prestige, or someone whose delusion of rank and prestige needs to be indulged; a muckety-muck

(v.) a revolt against the authority of upper case and all formal, social-signalling tomfoolery.

(also: upper case)

describing the middle class who ascended to prominence and superceded the landed aristocracy in the seventeenth century. they successfully embarrassed their social betters by proving there was a path to success beyond an inborn divine mandate, while selling out the lower class by perpetuating the cycle of labor exploitation.

also their taste in decor leans incontestably toward the brummagem.

Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) the act of borrowing something at a very favorable rate to the borrower.

(n.) one who gives something, usually money or an organ, for the benefit of another.

not to be confused with a donut. A donut would not make a good organ transplant. believe me.

One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race that antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds. Little is known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) what unpaved ground largely consists of. ain't exactly rocks and it ain't exactly decaying organic matter, but a perverted blend of both