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    Commerce: The art of buying a horse for $25 and selling it for $2,500

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    Profit Margin: That part of a page left blank so readers can rest their weary brains and wonder if there is any profit in reading further.

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    Unicorn: Literally 1-corn - a limit dieters give themselves at picnic gatherings; a variation of the tricorn ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne ) which is essentially a round head covering; a beast, similar in appearance to a horse with a long pointed/spiraled protuberance growing from its forehead, of which only one in love can see; an unattainable paragon of beauty.

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    Picnic: To choose an online alias.

    Profit margin: The social outskirts to which speakers for fringe gods are relegated.

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    Animus:Your ideal mate (animus or anima).

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    Origami: A simple paper-folding technique that can be used as an exercise in futility, the Japanese make it look easy but it isn't

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    Feng Shui: "Wind Water" Chinese philosophic system. Those who don’t like it call it a superstition with no demonstrable evidence showing it is beneficial, yadda, yadda, yadda. Those who like it use it to orient themselves to what’s around them and enjoy whatever benefits they enjoy.

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    Futility: Objects that are useful for the feet.

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    Vintage: The term only makes sense when it refers to wine in which case it is the year and place where the wine was made. That doesn’t stop it from referring to something a tad bit too old and out-of-date to be considered “new”, but not quite ancient enough to be a collectible “antique”.

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    Antique: Belonging to a bygone age and therefore sought after. People will buy antique items that have become so obsolete that people have to ask "What the devil is that?!"

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    Devil: The opposite of angel. It is often thought of as male while the angel is female. It is usually well-dressed and handsome with a quick wit and eager to get you to sign your soul away. Of course, once you sign and meet it in hell appearances change.

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    Lol!

    Angel: 1- A representant of heaven. 2-Name of a rather relentless character in "Tess of the Ubervilles". Mollified after getting a fever in Curitiba of all places.

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    You tube: or Euphonium... Instrument not too unlike a Tuba, also called a Baritone Horn; YouTube: a place to explore music and/or videos that whimsically may or may not be available albeit listed.

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    Facebook: The book that shows ones faces to the world, and the faces of the world to one.


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    Twitter: What birds do to waste time.

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