A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
(also: space)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardiest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
(also: dictionary)
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(also: dictionary)
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(1564 – 1642) Italian scientist – confirmed the heliocentric view of the universe.
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(also: galileo galilei quotes)
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(1971-1984)
the second most famous indian person named gandhi to be assassinated. india's first female prime minister, famous for getting the country mixed up in a war with pakistan and for testing huge-ass nuclear weapons in the indian desert. one suspects she was in margaret thatcher's book club
eventually killed by her own sikh bodyguards in 1984, which got the rest of india very upset with the sikhs. and so the wheel of human intrigue turns onward.
the second most famous indian person named gandhi to be assassinated. india's first female prime minister, famous for getting the country mixed up in a war with pakistan and for testing huge-ass nuclear weapons in the indian desert. one suspects she was in margaret thatcher's book club
eventually killed by her own sikh bodyguards in 1984, which got the rest of india very upset with the sikhs. and so the wheel of human intrigue turns onward.
Insensible to the value of our advice.
"Now lay your bet with mine, nor let
These gamblers take your cash."
"Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes!
How can you be so rash?"
—Bootle P. Gish
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
"Now lay your bet with mine, nor let
These gamblers take your cash."
"Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes!
How can you be so rash?"
—Bootle P. Gish
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
What is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Cats. Cats are nice
(also: cat)
(also: cat)
A republican form of government deriving its powers from the conceit of the governed — in thinking they govern.
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(n.) it's a funny story, you've probably heard the idiom "hoist by your own petard," meaning "have your actions backfire on you," and you might have assumed a petard was some kind of garment or something. but actually a petard is a kind of bomb. the saying is "blown up by your own bomb"
(n.) a group of people that joins together in the purpose of festivity and the making of merriment. what fun!
or:
a group of people forming a political faction within the government with the intention of pushing for certain policies and platforms. not terribly fun.
or:
a group of people forming a political faction within the government with the intention of pushing for certain policies and platforms. not terribly fun.
person who takes unwanted things and makes them farther away.
(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)
Their ability to stack on top of one another has deep seated cosmological implications: (also: turtles all the way down)
(noun): A sticky substance that transforms a leisurely stroll into a flailing dance of desperation.
The name for a state within the USA, once known as Massachusetts. But because the capital is so much easier to say, and because no one knows where the hell it is without its capital existing, the name of the state might as well be its capital: Boston.
Example:
Dood1: hey, didn't you say you were going to Massive Two Shits or whatever?
Dood2: what? Oh you mean Boston? Yeah I went, it was filled with cholos from the vineyards.
Example:
Dood1: hey, didn't you say you were going to Massive Two Shits or whatever?
Dood2: what? Oh you mean Boston? Yeah I went, it was filled with cholos from the vineyards.
(1893 – 1976) Leader of the Communist Revolution and dictator of China from 1949-1974.
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(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: mao zedong quotes)
To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join