1. What a barman does to double his profits. 2. (archaic) a term for a slave market which specialises in persons of restricted growth.
Insouciance:
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1. What a barman does to double his profits. 2. (archaic) a term for a slave market which specialises in persons of restricted growth.
Insouciance:
Insouciance: Too indifferent to look up what the word really means
Ad hoc:
Ad Hoc: A workaround one hopes that one never has to repeat.
Tree
Tree: A life with a direction.
Pancake
Pancake: A delicious way to consume wheat. It is best when they come as triplets stacked hot with butter and maple syrup and a three-egg omelette stuffed with vegetables and fried potatoes on the side with generous amounts of black coffee to wash it all down.
Ice Cream
Ice Cream: An edible substance that fraudulently leads on consumers with empty promises of ice.
Engagement
Engagement: A ritual foreplay that requires the male to make a gift of a diamond ring while begging a female to accept it as down payment that he will ultimately show up later. The female is typically allowed to accept only one ring at a time.
Wedding
Wedding: The acknowledgement of the world that two persons who have been together for years now have a legal right to be together.
Date:
Date: A type of fruit which grows on palm trees native to North Africa and the Middleast.
Brunch
Brunch: A meal for those who missed breakfast and can’t wait for lunch.
Death
Death = The end result of living.
Abnormal
Abnormal: the defining condition of everyone but myself.
Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist: Like a poltergeist but harder to get rid of.
Carnivore
Carnivore: A creature high up on the food chain, however, worms have been known to find them delicious with or without a nice steak sauce.
Momentum
Momentum: An excuse objects use for not staying at rest.
Romance
Momentum - the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity, a useful definition for anyone who knows the meaning (in physics) of the word 'velocity'.
Oops, cross posted with Pompey!
Romance - A novel in which a dark, handsome, wonderful millionaire meets and ultimately marries a fairly obscure and ordinary woman.
Imaginary
Imaginary: That part of the very little we are aware of that has lost its credibility.
Soup
Soup - meat & two veg with gravy, without the meat & two veg.
Noah
Noah: A negative response to the question: "Do you smokah?"
Plenipotentiary
Plenipotentiary: a diplomat possessing absolute authority, and encouragement, to break all the laws in some other country.
Caliphate
Caliphate: The wedding night of religion and anarchy.
Career
Career: An imaginary path with never-ending goals and obstacles most successfully taken when one finally realizes there never was a real path there to take at all.
Disaster
Disaster: Any problem that might effect my waistline, life line, or the bottom line
Cheerful:
Cheerful: Our natural state until we start worrying that it will not last and then it stops.
Fear
Fear: The number after free
Bleak
Bleak: A place that could use a happy face, so here it is: :)
Gift
Gift: A nefarious tool for placing someone in a position of obligation to you; the giving of gifts demonstrates humanity's highest capacity for malice, having turned charity into a form of entrapment.
End:
End: That part of a movie where it is OK to get up and leave. That part of a book where you can stop reading and still legitimately claim that you finished it. That part of your body that kisses the chair.
Eye Drops
Eye Drops: Artificial tears in case you actually run out of real ones
Nightmare:
Nightmare: a nice diversion from reality.
Modernism
Nightmare - a horse that is nocturnal and female.
modernism - recent trends in art, literature, music, etc. which will soon be considered hopelessly outdated.
Magnum opus
Magnum opus - the time of night when you start asking the cat to serve you what's left in the champagne crate.
Decollate
Decollate: To shorten one's life by a head
Infamy:
Infamy: An entertaining account of events when the bad guys win.
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction: Lies that avoid prosecution for libel by dint of reaching the best-seller list.
Here:
Here: Not there
There
There: Not here, like “then” being “not now”. If it is sound advice, and it is, for you to be here now, it is also best if you are not there then at the same time or at least have the probability that you are there then less than or equal to the probability that you are here now.
Detachment
Detachment Opposite of an Attachment. For instance many of the bits in the box of your new vacuum cleaner. They don't attach anywhere, therefore they may be considered detachments
Vacuum
Vacuum: An imaginary region of space persisting for a period of time containing nothing except a “ground state”, whatever that is, and the space and time defining its limits.
A vacuum should not contain space.
Nor time. Where does it need to race?
Be a point? Something less.
Something more? Let me guess:
Some awareness that won’t show its face. Alice, IF
Oxymoron
Oxymoron: Too stupid to even breathe
Plagiarism: