bil·lion·aire CEO lives on em·ploy·ee's sal·a·ry | ˌbilyəˈner ˌsēˈēˈō ˈlivz ɒn ɛmˈplɔɪˌiz ˈsæləri |
noun
a modern-day fairytale in which a billionaire CEO, known for their insatiable greed and exploitation of workers, miraculously sustains their extravagant lifestyle by siphoning off meager salaries from their hardworking employees.
n. [1.] The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. [2.] The kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from Ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See NONSENSE.
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series of letters of decreasing size that you could certainly memorize. Every eye chart is the same sequence, and it's only 66 letters.
(n.) european country; country you call when you need a replacement germany. famous for old classical musicians or something
(n.) without hair; the condition of baldness in human men is often taken as a sign of dignified maturity, or at least that's what bald men are repeatedly assured
(n.) a gentlemanly sport with increasingly infrequent casualties
n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.
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A place where ships taking shelter from storms are shattered by customs officers.
(also: ship)
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(also: ship)
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(adj.) greyish and somber-looking, as from advanced age
one of those words you've got to be pretty careful using
one of those words you've got to be pretty careful using
(424 - 348 BC) – Greek philosopher.
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(n.) an academic discipline that discusses and researches the motions of physical bodies, from tiny atoms up to massive stars and our entire galaxy.
physics was invented when archimedes was running home from the bathhouse to write down his thoughts on fluid displacement; he slipped and fell into a temporal anomaly, landing on the head of isaac newton, who thus also got some neat ideas about gravity in one of history's rare twofers.
... well, okay, it wasn't exactly that, but it was something like that.
physics was invented when archimedes was running home from the bathhouse to write down his thoughts on fluid displacement; he slipped and fell into a temporal anomaly, landing on the head of isaac newton, who thus also got some neat ideas about gravity in one of history's rare twofers.
... well, okay, it wasn't exactly that, but it was something like that.
A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
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Noun: A thick heavy weapon, used mostly when you need to bludgeon the hell out of something.
Verb: The process of whacking the shit out of something.
Yes, you can use bludgeons to bludgeon.
Verb: The process of whacking the shit out of something.
Yes, you can use bludgeons to bludgeon.
The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
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motor retaining nut on an airplane rotor. named so because, if it becomes loose, your only real option is to pray to jesus.
In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.[hr
Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on ea]th again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost!
—Polydore Smith
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Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on ea]th again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost!
—Polydore Smith
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