VOCABULARY

 

ABDICATE: To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

ADVERTISING: The rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. (George Orwell)

ADVERTISING: Legalized lying. (H.G. Wells)

ADVERTISING: The cave art of the 20th century. (Marshall McLuhan)

ADVERTISING: The “wonder” in Wonder Bread. (Jeff Richards)

ARBITRAITOR: A cook who leaves Arby’s to work for McDonald’s.

ATOM BOMB: An invention to end all inventions.

BALDERDASH: A rapidly receding hairline.

BARGAIN: Something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist. (Franklin Jones)

BENIGN: What you will be after you be eight.

BOREDOM: The desire for desires. (Leo Tolstoy)

COGNITO ERGO SPUD: I think, therefore I yam.

COGNITO EGGO SUM: I think, therefore I am a waffle.

COMOTOES: When your foot falls asleep.

DECAFALON: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only those things that are good for you.

DEJA MOO: The feeling that you’ve heard this bull before.

DIJON VU: The same mustard as before.

DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out.

ECLIPSE: What a cockney barber does for a living.

ESPLANADE: To attempt an explanation while drunk.

ETC.: A sign to make others believe you know more that you actually do.

FAX MACHINE: A device that allows someone in another state to pile work on your desk. (Mrs. Webster’s Guide to Business)

FIBULA: a small lie.

FLABBERGASTED: appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

FLABRICATION: The weight on your driver’s license.

FLASHLIGHT: A case for holding dead batteries.

FLATULENCE: Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

FREUDIAN SLIP: When you say one thing but mean your mother.

GARGOYLE: Olive-flavored mouthwash.

GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions, etc.

GIRAFFITI: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

HECK: Where people who don’t believe in Gosh go.

HEROS: What a guy in a boat does.

HIPATITIS: Terminal coolness.

INOCULATTE: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

LOTTERY: A tax on people who are bad at math.

LYMPH: To walk with a lisp.

MAGAZINE: a device used to induce people to read advertising. (James Collins)

MOMENTUM: What you give a person when they are going away.

OHNO-SECOND: That miniscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake.

OYSTER: A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

PARASITES: What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

POKEMON: A Rastafarian proctologist.

PROFESSOR: Some who talks in someone else’s sleep.

REGEORGITATION: When the vending machine spits back your dollar bill.

REINTARNATION: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

RESPONDEZ S’IL VOUS PLAID: Honk if you’re Scottish.

RIGOR MORRIS: The cat is dead.

SARCHASM: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

SATISFACTORY: Where satisfaction comes from.

SUBDUED: A guy who works on submarines.

VACUUM: A large, empty space where the pope lives.

VENI, VIDI, VICE: I came, I saw, I partied.

YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed.

 

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. (Robert Benchley)

 

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