An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
A competing or opposing lawyer.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
the little box that the magic voices are trapped in
(n.) music for the moody angst-ridden teenager types, evolved from styles played in the caribbean
A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(noun phrase) A metaphorical beacon that embodies the selfless dedication of teachers, illuminating the path of knowledge for generations. Yet, tragically, this luminary role often remains underappreciated and underpaid.
(also: teaching)
(also: teaching)
a party dude
gianello della torre (1500 – 1585) was a renaissance-era inventor who made his home in spain (where his name is best known) and could have been as famous as his contemporary leonardo da vinci, if people's brains were capable of storing the names of more than one renaissance-era inventor
does not have a ninja turtle named after him
does not have a ninja turtle named after him
(phrase) The timeless excuse of students seeking mercy for incomplete tasks, conjuring images of valiant guardianship over pint-sized terrors. A tale of unexpected responsibilities and heroic feats of sibling supervision, where chaos reigns and homework crumbles in the face of diaper changes and tantrums. A bittersweet plea for understanding, blending the frustrations of caretaking with the comedic antics of miniature humans.
(also: my dog ate my homework)
(also: my dog ate my homework)
adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) a frightfully important person in the religion of Catholicism and other religions that are catholic-flavored. apparently known for habit of moving diagonally.
(1042 – 29 July 1099) Influential Pope who ordered the first Crusade to the Holy Land and set up the Papal Court
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: pope urban ii quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: pope urban ii quotes)
n.
Once Law was sitting on the bench,
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench!
Nor come before me creeping.
Upon your knees if you appear,
'Tis plain you have no standing here."
Then Justice came. His Honor cried:
"Your status? — devil seize you!"
"Amica curiæ," she replied —
"Friend of the court, so please you."
"Begone!" he shouted — "there's the door —
I never saw your face before!"
—G.J.
(also: law of triviality)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
Once Law was sitting on the bench,
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench!
Nor come before me creeping.
Upon your knees if you appear,
'Tis plain you have no standing here."
Then Justice came. His Honor cried:
"Your status? — devil seize you!"
"Amica curiæ," she replied —
"Friend of the court, so please you."
"Begone!" he shouted — "there's the door —
I never saw your face before!"
—G.J.
(also: law of triviality)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
someone who is nervous and irritatable
(n.) heir to a centuries-long tradition of warlord-employed assassins and spies hailing from japan. very easily identified by distinctive black full-body pajamas (one would think this might interfere with the spying and assassinating but evidently not)
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(also: office cubicle monotony)
(link is not broken, though it appears to be)
(also: y2k panic)
(also: Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
(also: Cowboy Bebop)
(also: office cubicle monotony)
(link is not broken, though it appears to be)
(also: y2k panic)
(also: Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
(also: Cowboy Bebop)
n. In Theology, a miscreant who does his thinking at home instead of putting it out. He is regarded by the priesthood and clergy with the same aversion that a barber feels for the man who shaves himself.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
explosive i guess
(also: creation of the universe)
(also: creation of the universe)
(n.) the supposed incorporeal remnant of a dead person; although their existence is not scientifically verified, pursuit of them remains of interest to crazy people and meddling kids with talking dogs
(v.) to employ a cunning tactic of ceasing communication with someone so that they will forget your existence
(v.) to employ a cunning tactic of ceasing communication with someone so that they will forget your existence
A candid man of affairs.
It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companions lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were suggestive, and after supper they agreed to tell robber stories in turn. When Voltaire's turn came he said: "Once there was a Farmer-General of the Revenues." Saying nothing more, he was encouraged to continue. "That," he said, "is the story."
(also: story)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companions lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were suggestive, and after supper they agreed to tell robber stories in turn. When Voltaire's turn came he said: "Once there was a Farmer-General of the Revenues." Saying nothing more, he was encouraged to continue. "That," he said, "is the story."
(also: story)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join