a prank where you forcibly submerge someone's head into a shallow ceramic pool of rushing water for several seconds

Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.

A mechanical marvel, that is powered by a mighty mainspring, which sends power through, typically, 4 gears and their pinions to a finely tuned balance. All that only to tell you the time of day.
Many watches also possess extra functions (or complications) such as:
-stopwatches (chronographs)
-showing the current date
-the ever beloved automatic winding of the mainspring

Though not as needed in the current times, they still are beautiful constructs, used to show status, or just to look nice.

(also: digital watches)
(also: time)

(n.) one of the tastiest dishes (aside from sushi ofc!)




(also: plov)

An imaginary all knowing, all seeing being that children are taught to believe in, who rewards them once a year for behaving well.

Also (God for children)

Nfts are bad art often associated with lions, monkeys, and other creatures that can be bought and sold at stupidly high prices that some people on Twitter have convinced themselves to have an ounce of value.

(also: blockchain)

To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
For the one with purpose (also: ultimatum)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) fun how it's short for original gangster, but could also simply be short for (o)ri(g)inal.

(also: original)

The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles and the like. The first of these rights was once universally believed to be derived directly from the will of God; and this is still sometimes affirmed in partibus infidelium outside the enlightened realms of Democracy; as in the well-known lines of Sir Abednego Bink, following:

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By what right, then, do royal rulers rule?
Whose is the sanction of their state and pow'r?
He surely were as stubborn as a mule
Who, God unwilling, could maintain an hour
His uninvited session on the throne, or air
His pride securely in the Presidential chair.

Whatever is is so by Right Divine;
Whate'er occurs, God wills it so. Good land!
It were a wondrous thing if His design
A fool could baffle or a rogue withstand!
If so, then God, I say (intending no offence)
Is guilty of contributory negligence.

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

A North American Indian, whose skin is not red — at least not on the outside.
(also: america)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

A place to collect expensive games, only to end up with none that you want to play. (also: water vapor)

Greenland is the one and only country in the world that is invulnerable to disease. No disease can reach it, now matter how infectious said disease is. I learned it from losing too many times in Plague Inc.

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
(also: Gandhi)

a reasonably famous piece of hong kong cinema released in 1978, when the martial arts craze was still going relatively strong. the domestic popularity of the film was such that the central cast was propelled to significant local fame

the plot runs as such: the aged master of the poison clan once had five students, each trained to fight like a different kind of venomous animal: the quick-handed centipede, the flexible snake, the stingy scorpion, the really-good-at-climbing-walls lizard, and the, um, *indestructible* toad. however, this aged master is now on death's doorstoop, and he is haunted by a dream that one or more of these students have used his teachings for evil. he calls on his newest, youngest, sixth student to go to the nearby village and investigate to see which, if any, of the five are guilty, which is complicated by the fact that all the students wore masks and their identities are secret.

in case you're curious (but not curious enough to actually watch the movie): scorpion is evil, centipede is a willing accomplice, snake is an unwilling accomplice, toad is murdered and lizard is a hero who teams up with the main character.

A benighted person who prefers home-made deities and indigenous religious rites.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

making the beast with two backs when you've only got the one back

there are two kinds of people in the world, those who just got done masturbating and those who are still doing it right now

Northern America;

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(also: canada)
(also: mexico)

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Caribbean;

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(also: Anguilla)
(also: Antigua and Barbuda)
(also: Aruba)
(also: Bahamas)
(also: Barbados)
(also: Bermuda (UK))
(also: British Virgin Islands (UK))
(also: Cayman Islands (UK))
(also: Cuba)
(also: Curaçao (NL))
(also: Dominica)
(also: Dominican Republic)
(also: Grenada)
(also: Guadeloupe (FR))
(also: Haiti)
(also: Jamaica)
(also: Martinique (FR))
(also: Montserrat (UK))
(also: Puerto Rico (USA)) (slave state of USA)
(also: Saint Kitts and Nevis)
(also: Saint Lucia)
(also: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
(also: Trinidad and Tobago)

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Central America;

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(also: Belize)
(also: Costa Rica)
(also: El Salvador)
(also: Guatemala)
(also: Honduras)
(also: Nicaragua)
(also: Panama)

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South America;

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(also: Argentina)
(also: Bolivia)
(also: Brazil)
(also: Chile)
(also: Colombia)
(also: Ecuador)
(also: French Guiana (FR))
(also: Guyana)
(also: Paraguay)
(also: Peru)
(also: Suriname)
(also: Uruguay)
(also: Venezuela)

(n.) the ability to be disappointed enough with reality that one starts proposing improvements, a testament to mankind's sheer arrogance and easily-bored nature

(n.) a razor-sharp grin attached to a large fish, with a dorsal fin to give fair warning

a crueler, land-based form of the animal prefers to swindle rather than outright eat its prey