Thursday, January 06, 2005

New Definitions

Parking Space - An area which disappears as you are making a U-turn.

Highbrow - A person educated beyond their intelligence.

Social Grace - When you start out on the right foot rather than putting it in your mouth.

Charity - That generous impulse to give away something you have no use for.

Flattery - The art of telling a person exactly what they think of
themselves.

Memory - The thing I forget with.

Proverb - A short sentence based on long experience.

Laziness - The habit of resting before you get tired.

Social Tact - Making people feel at home when you wish they were.

Small Town - A place where it's no sooner done than said.

Egotism - The art of seeing qualities in yourself which others can't see.

Egoist - A conceited person who thinks he knows as much as you do.

Diplomacy - Saying, "nice doggy," while you're looking around for a rock.

Girdle - An ingenious device invented to keep an unfortunate situation from spreading.

Egotist - A person who thinks if he hadn't been born, people would wonder why.

Prune - A plum that has seen better days

 

    What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.
    ~Charlton Heston; Planet of the Apes

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