Transcendental: Outside space and time and the limitation of the speed of light.
Age of Aquarius
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Transcendental: Outside space and time and the limitation of the speed of light.
Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius: The Era of Long, Long, Long Filthy Hair Bands
Electric:
Electric: Any gadget with a wire and plug.
Timetable
Timetable - a fictional work based on arrival and departure times chosen with a pin.
ubiquitous
Schedule - a fictional construct, never to become factual, taken to be possible.
tractability
Tractability: A characteristic Big Brother likes to see in his minions.
Minion
Minion: one who lacks the moral integrity to be anything other than a dupe.
Guano
Guano: South American bird droppings. If you are sitting on a park bench in the zócalo under a tree with hundreds of tiny birds twittering above you, it is not their fault if you look up to check them out.
Obtuse
Guano - marketable excrement, the other example of which is Manzoni's cans of poop.
obtuse
Obtuse: Being deliberately difficult like an angle between 90 and 180 degrees.
Fool's Gold
Fool's gold: what fools use to buy those funny hats
Kumquat
Kumquat: The fruit you only know about because it uses the "q" in Scrabble
Durian:
Durian: a fruit whose forbidding appearance playfully anticipates it's revolting aroma
Praying mantis
Praying Mantis: An insect who gives thanks before eating her mate who is still busy with the mating process
Blister Beetle:
Blister Beetle Brother of Buster Beetle who in their famous traveling circus act of the 1850's, would entrap beetles, and indeed, any six legged bug, and harness them to a miniature cart, trapeze, or ferris wheel for human entertainment. Thus the term Beetle Circus
Circus
Circus: Like Disneyworld, but with whips and chains.
Leech
Leech: That creepy family member who shows up at every family gathering and hasn't held a job in his life. But regular as a clock tick he's there at family functions enjoying free food and drink, and hitting everyone up for "spare change."
Drunk:
Drunk: The final state of consciousness those who overdue their practice of the art of drinking can attain.
Mellow
Mellow - An early state of consciousness attained by those who practice the art of drinking (see Drunk above) :cheers2:
plenipotentiary
Plenipotentiary: one who may work with considerable freedom of action but never independently of his or her own briefs
Soliloquy
Soliloquy: What a conversation with your BIF (best imaginary friend) looks like to an amused outsider.
Earth
Earth: a rock hurling blindly through space, beset with certain parasitical problems
Mononucleosis
Mononucleosis: Long for “mono”. Short for “glandular fever”. Less understandable than “kissing disease”, but at least you got kissed.
Fire and Brimstone
Fire and Brimstone: 1) Said to be the major features in the Christian Hell 2) A style of preaching designed to make the listener feel the fire and smell the brimstone
Priest:
Priest: a person who pretends his imaginary friend has a large baseball bat so others will give him money and power.
Gangster
Gangster: Person selling illegal goods, assassinating people, and selling protection against damages without a Government license to do so. If they had a license, they would be termed businessmen
Peace Officer:
Peace Officer: Someone authorized to be an anti-gangster.
Queen of Hearts
Queen of Hearts: Mega-diva that works at everyone's place of business who can turn a hangnail into two days off work. This person is so full of drama that they might as well be screaming "Off with their heads!" Some of you just nodded, and thought, "I'd like to chop so and so's head off!"
Wisdom:
Wisdom: Something we are supposed to attain as we grow older, but instead all we get is wrinkles, aches and pains and memory loss.
second-guess
Second-guess: Trying to undermine the confidence of others by telling them that they should have done something differently than they did. Now they know they should have done it differently. They will fix that problem. Next time they won’t let you know what choice they made in the first place.
Ecliptic
Ecliptic - The path of the sun as he traverses the celestial sphere. There are other more modern definitions, but these are superfluous.
conductivity
Conductivity: The measure of the level of communication shared between an orchestra leader and the players.
Halcyon
Halcyon: An adjective that means “happy” or “blissful” or “joyful”. Almost no one would be stressed out if the word did not exist. Just use “happy”.
Vow
Vow: Solemn promise, often invoking the Deity one makes in time of crisis, and has no real intention of keeping
Swear in:
Swear in: to initiate someone into office in a solemn ceremony with the use of swear words.
Bad language
Bad language: Well, as Classicists say, the only good language is a dead language.
Specious
Specious - of, or pertaining to, a category of animals or plants.
desideratum
Desideratum: Something desired that one does not already have. A sense of lack and therefore a source of suffering.
Antipodes
Antipodes: a venerable fallback when seeking a rhyme for "Euripides"
Terse