Sunday, February 04, 2007

The latest addition to the miketionary

Look what flew into my mailbox (thanks Aurora).

Oxford Dictionary's latest definition of the following words

Boss
Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
Doctor
A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.
Divorce
Future tense of marriage.
Cigarette
A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end a fool on the other.
Lecture
An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either.
Conference
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise
The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
Tears
The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower which is defeated by feminine waterpower.
Dictionary
A place where success comes before work.
Conference Room
A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
Classic
A book, which people praise, but do not read.
Smile
A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Office
A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Yawn
The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc.
A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
Committee
Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
Experience
The name men give to their mistakes.
Atom Bomb
An invention to end all inventions.
Philosopher
A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
Diplomat
A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Opportunist
A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
Optimist
A person who while falling from Eiffel tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."
Miser
A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
Father
A banker provided by nature.
Criminal
A guy no different from the rest.... except that he got caught.
Politician
One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

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Blogger Po8 said...

What I miss in this great list, resp. what my Oxford Dictionary contains:

zom·bie: dead, being an aboulic medium of the one who brought him to life

chris·tian: s. zom·bie

11:18 pm  

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