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Campus: The grounds of an institute of higher learning, populated by kids finally out of their parent's house. They tend to be cesspools of vice, occasionally broken by the cool clear water of actually learning something useful, but most student tend to be afraid of the water...
Knowledge:
Knowledge: Ignorance graded on the curve.
Curve:
Curve: a distribution (of fat) by which our society measures a woman's worth.
Parallel
Parallel: An adjective describing two identical objects that will never know anything about each other since they will never meet.
White Rabbit:
White Rabbit: Never on time, a reference to Alice In Wonderland. Often used by a boss to chasten those workers who show up at nine when work started at eight. "Bill, you are a white rabbit and I'm about to cook your tail!"
Hookum:
Hookum: what happens when you cross a hookah with hokum?
Palimpsest
Palimpsest: A medieval vellum manuscript, recycled by scraping off a layer of writing and then using it again. Now a word used to fancify prose and literary criticism. Eg. "All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary".- 1984, George Orwell
Prolix:
Prolix: Saying something in many words that is best said in few probably because they are paid by the word or because they are narcissists or for whatever inane reason that might pass through their verbose minds unable to control the diarrhea of verbal profusion that only tires the reader and makes him, and, yes, even her, wonder if the guy will ever just take a deep breath and stop.
Diarrhea of the mouth:
Diarrhea of the mouth: Colorful phrase that indicates that someone is talking too much, often without any knowledge of what they are talking about. It takes a lot more than toilet paper to fix this job...
Porcelain Bus:
What you have to take if you spend to much time on the m-m-magic bus.
Intoxication
Intoxication: Completely overcome. This an be by drink or drugs, of course, but you can also be over come with beauty, art, literature, acting, sports, etc. Call it serious fan appreciation.
Inebriated:
Inebriated: riding the porcelain bus. This can likewise be a reaction to art, literature, acting, or sports.
Attraction
Attraction: Something that catches the eye. This is no guarantee that what catches your eye will be attractive. Ugly catches the eye as well as beauty, perhaps more!
Butt Ugly:
Butt Ugly: Very ugly, like a butt presumably, though whoever coined the term was obviously not thinking of Francois Boucher's Mademoiselle O'Murphy, Canova's Three Graces and such.
Gluteus Maximus
Gluteus Maximus: Latin for: "The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'."
Catapult