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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1 Comments:
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
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