Naiad: A sexy, fresh water nymph, the kind you can only get your hands on in your dreams.
Counterfactual:
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Naiad: A sexy, fresh water nymph, the kind you can only get your hands on in your dreams.
Counterfactual:
Counterfactual: pertaining to the counterfacts of life (storks, cabbage patches, "When you're older, dear!" etc).
Peccadillo
Peccadillo: A tiny “pecado” or sin which your spouse likely views differently causing her to collect a few peccadillos of her own.
Billiard Ball:
A sphere whose course determines fortunes better than the heavenly variety.
Hydrogen bomb:
Hydrogen bomb: The fictitious WMD that will never be used. There are a lot of crazy leaders out there who would push the button just to watch the world burn.
Ragnarok:
Ragnarok: The apocalypse in Norse mythology where even some of the gods die. However there are enough surviving gods and a human couple to start the whole mess all over again.
Eschatology
Eschatology: God's exit strategy.
Teleology
Eschatology: A delusional dream shared by the religious and irreligious who actually think we'll ever solve the problem of being human.
Tautology
Teleology: Belief that there are designs and purposes in Nature, often decried by the same people who say "Notice the hind leg of a grasshopper. It is uniquely designed to propel the insect a set distance at a millisecond's notice."
Tautology: Constantly repeating something as if saying it often and loudly will make it be either true or false, depending on your point of view
Evolution:
Evolution: The process of changing over time, usually into something higher or more complex, with some exceptions like argumentative Forum threads which only become more moronic the longer they get.
Delegate:
Delegate: To pass the buck to someone else. This is usually spun as giving power such as "Private! I am delegating you to be in charge of cleaning the barracks!"
Moronic:
Moronic: A word that tries to capture the tantalizing way that morons behave. This behavior ranges wildly from the mildly amusing behavior of relatives at family reunions all the way up to extreme oxymoronic inanities.
Tantalize:
Tantalize: To tempt. Resisting temptation has never been man's strong point all the way back to Eden...
Hypnotize:
Hypnotize: To convince someone to do what they've always wanted to do but were too afraid--or deluded themselves they didn't want--to do so.
Phantasmagorical:
Phantasmagorical: Fantastical on steroids.
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