Blood: A beverage vampires enjoy.
Black Cat
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Blood: A beverage vampires enjoy.
Black Cat
Black cat: A nice fur to go with that little black dress
1984
1984: A book written by George Orwell explaining how Big Brother would break our natural resistance by brainwashing all of us to a miserable existence by 1984. Orwell’s error was in overrating our brains. All we needed, which the machines figured out in the Matrix, was to have a power cord stuck in our necks and then even Big Brother would be happy.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina: Yet another novel about a woman who has an affair and comes to a bad end.
Adultery
Adultery: The practice of growing up
Flim-flam
Flim-flam: The ability to sell ice to penguins while carrying coals to Newcastle
Fake:
Fake: A cheaper version of reality that supposedly would not fulfill the functional and status needs as well as the more expensive version like buying a ten dollar purse with a brand name on it from a street vendor rather than paying fifty times more to get it certified real from a real boutique.
Vernal Equinox
Vernal Equinox - according to P.G. Wodehouse and many others, the start of the human mating season.
Epiphany
Epiphany: A sudden inspiration that usually hits people at about one AM on January 6th, which they cannot keep to themselves until some decent hour. like say one PM. A common cause of divorce and the occasional manslaughter charge.
Excelsior:
Excelsior: Something exceptional or great or beyond description and since it is beyond description instead of futilely trying to find words to describe it one can use this one.
Feng Shui
Excelsior: a university in Albany, New York, which encourages its students to get higher
Feng shui: Chinese for scotch and water; novices are advised to begin with bing shui
Waste land
Wasteland: Land that we have not yet found a way to monetize. For example, high cliffs far from the highway overlooking an ocean where lovers, not yet being charged a fee, come to jump when they forget that there are always more fish in the sea.
Orb
A kind of spherical spider.
Argosy
Argosy: proof that being fleeced on a long trip is nothing new
Ubiquitous
Ubiquitous: that which is always there when you least need it, and impossible to find when you do.
abear: