Plagiarism: A crime for most of humanity, but at university we term it 'research'.
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Plagiarism: A crime for most of humanity, but at university we term it 'research'.
Chronicle:
Chronicle: a time travelling flat bottomed boat invented by the Welsh.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest: Proof that censorship and plagiarism was rampant even in the Middle Ages.
ad infinitum:
ad infinitum: A way of saying endless in a language that ended.
earnestness
earnestness - a general restlessness leading to failed ventures and an early death.
tranquility
Tranquility: An early death
Serendipity
Serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. In other words, an impossiblity. Remember whose dictionary, and universe, this is :reddevil:.
Devil
Devil: Someone who teases you with the illusory cage of matter and gives you hell, but smiles when you end your struggling by walking through the walls.
Patience
Patience: An English form of the Latin word for suffering.
Patience is a virtue,
Possess it if you can;
Seldom in a woman,
And never in a man.
Passion (from a related Latin root, btw):
Passion: Fire, suit of wands, instinct, intuition. Suffering. Ecstasy. Driven, driving fantasy.
Projection
Projection: A British project that attempted to generate oxygen ions, with the aim of creating static shocks in panzer tanks in WWII. Mostly a failure, it just made the storm-troopers angry.
Utopia
Utopia: A contrived Greek word meaning "no place."
Soviet Union
Soviet Union: a collection of atheist nations that denied the existence of the devil, and paid the consequences.
silly mid off
A position in Jiminey Cricket's Sex Manuel; forerunner of the silly walk.
Caviar
Caviar - ridiculously overpriced fish eggs
Dipsomaniac
Dipsomaniac: an alcoholic who can still afford a psychiatrist
Armed forces
Armed Forces: Military personnel who are sometimes called "peace keepers", "consultants", and "supporting troops" because to call them soldiers would sound too much like a declaration of war.
Insurgents:
Insurgents: Armed civilians whose healthcare insurance no longer covers anger management
Cigarettes
Cigarettes: Dried plant life, often tobacco or marijuana, wrapped in thin paper. The point of constructing this is to light up one end while lips hold the other end still. Then comes the inhaling and exhaling. The smoke follows the breath into the lungs and out again under the theory that normal air is not organic enough for civilized consumption.
Oil
Oil: A vestige of the dinosaur that retains much of its potential for killing. Historical: A substance in the head of a whale sometimes confused with sperm.
Zoo
Oil: Irish for "I'll", for example, "Oil just be kissin' the blarney stone to get me some neat learnings for a writing of the divils dictionary"
Blarney
Zoo: A clever ruse by the members of the animal kingdom to observe humans in their urban environment while getting free room and board from them.
Zoom
Blarney: Fled's best friend.
Zoom: That's Zoom, Zee-Double-Oh-Em, Box 350, Boston Mass 02134!
Swordfish
To this day, forty-some years later, I still can't see a Boston zip code without mentally singing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Swordfish: The method for men who think rod & line is for sissies.
Plankton
Plankton: A ton of planks, similar to "a cord of wood."
Meter:
Meter The song a crocodile sings before dinner
"So long - it was so nice to meter" *
Crocodile
*This may have been misheard
Crocodile: An ugly creature with a long snout, big teeth and a huge, scaly tail. Some humans, thinking they’ve tamed the beast, put their heads into its opened mouth. This behavior confuses the crocodile. Some humans leave their heads in too long.
Off the Record
Off the Record - Next morning's headline news.
Tax Haven
Tax haven: a colony of corporate lawyers outside New Haven.
Gastronomy
Gastronomy: What happens after you eat too many beans. Like astronomy, but with more gas.
Transit of Venus
Transit of Venus: A beautiful lady in gauze who flits across a stage
Mooncalf:
Mooncalf: What the cow who jumped over left behind.
Battery
A monastery of bats. All monasteries in England since Henry VIII turfed out those pesky priests :reddevil:.
chess
Chess: A game that tests your intellectual capacity to focus on something irrelevant.
Baby Boomer
Baby Boomer - flourishing infant
Intellectual
Intellectual - an invalid so hampered by thinking that he cannot function in the real world.
Hedonist
Hedonist: a fat and lonely wanker who longs in vain for a shedonist.
Stoic
Stoic: he who remains unmoved when all about him is collapsing, hence the famous line of Epicurus to Zeno, "Run you idiot!"
Shedonist: [2] Typical sub-species of suburban middle-aged male forever taking respite from family duties by indulging inane, but enjoyabe, hobbies in his garden shed. May be a simple hedonist.
Plymouth brethren
Evangelical Protestant civil engineers who maintained the Plymouth cistern.
Cynic
Cynic: Human beings who act like dogs, and therefore some of the best people in the world.
Cynosure