Litnet's version of Devil's dictionary

Predetermine:- lay wager...where both parties involved are you yourself...

betcher:-

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

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Fionn gazed at Mason thoughtfully. “Would you describe y’self as a rationalist, Mason?” he asked. “D’ye like things to be explicable in terms of known and observable phenomena?”

Mason nodded.

“Then try lookin’ at it this way.” As he was speaking, Fionn got up and set about making a pot of tea. “Have y’ever been in the position where y’ve got a choice of a coupla things to do? Fr’instance, let’s say that this evening ye can either go fer a beer with y’girl, or pass a few hours playin’ cards with the lads. Would y’recognise such a dilemma?”

“Spose so,” Mason admitted.

“An’ yer really not sure which it is ye want to do, let’s say? Would y’not decide that ye’ll settle it on the toss of a coin, now?”

“Might do.”

“So, we’ll say heads fer the drink with a young one, and tails the poker game. Would y’toss a coin, please, Elvis?” Fionn instructed, as he took three mugs from a cupboard.

Elvis flipped a penny, and smacked it to the table. “Tails,” he announced.

“The poker game,” Fionn nodded, bringing a laden tea tray to the table. “There’s y’decision, Mason.”

“Can’t we make it best-of-three?” Mason asked, realizing, now that he was faced with the imaginary prospect of letting some woman down, that he didn’t want to play cards at all.

Fionn clapped his hands and grinned. “Aha! There y'go." He poured the tea. “This simple little binary chance has shown yer the future, right enough. A minute ago y’didn’t know what yer were going to do, and now you do. Help y’self t’milk.”

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Betcher: a foreshortened English poet (1906 - 1984)

Simpleton

Nikhar what does the original word "betcher" mean?

Simpleton - one who simply knows that the universe is a crossword game.

Can we have a fresh word, please, Astromix? Thanks

Diadem:

Diadem:- A pretty, sparkly thing adorning the head, which is used to distract from the inevitable hideousness of the visage below it.

Corpulent:-

A word used by fat old blokes who are trying to hide the fact that they are fat old blokes.

Taxation

Taxation Ancient art of legal robbery by Governments over the people. It has been honed over the years to perfection, i.e., you never even see the money extracted by these thieves, it shows as a tantalizing line on your check stub, and consists of a goodly amount of your pay


Labor

What women have to go into when they have a baby, e.g. wash, cook, clean, feed, was again, wash some more and so forth.

Salary

Salary: time turned into money. Compare pension, which is money turned into time.


Elastic

That which a banknote is made of, in that it goes further in some hands than it does in others. Or is purported to.

Anaesthetist

Anaesthetist: a profession in which you try to blind people from the inevitable truth by dousing them with injected fainting spells.

vigilante

Vigilante - A crime fighting kinswoman.

Bucolic -

Bucolic - stress-related acid indigestion that follows lunch in a country pub, two pints of cider and a brisk hike to the next town which turns out to be rather further than it looks on the map and mostly uphill along dotted paths that are actually no more the shortest distance between the gates on either side of eight acres of cowsh*t.



Picket

Picket: sort of fences to block the imaginations of women and men who think happiness is within boundaries

voyeur: