Bodybuilding: An attempt to get control over one’s body by making sure the stuff that pops out is supposed to and the junk that shouldn’t stays put.
Control:
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Bodybuilding: An attempt to get control over one’s body by making sure the stuff that pops out is supposed to and the junk that shouldn’t stays put.
Control:
Control: An illusion caused by the mind thinking that you can actually influence fate
Horror:
Horror: A emotional state anticipating dissatisfaction such as when one steps on the scale in the morning.
Illusion:
Illusion: That which keeps a fool from discovering that he is, in fact, a fool
Stupid:
Stupid: Trying to impress everyone until you have no friends left.
Shepherd's pie
Shepherd’s Pie: A meat and vegetable dish covered with mashed potatoes and baked. If the sheep are nearby, tell them you used chicken.
Dish:
Dish: an adulteress who has led many a spoon to perdition.
Hangnail
Hangnail: The most flimsy excuse for missing work, school, etc.
High School:
High School: A painful rite of passage supposed to prepare you for life. Survive it and you can survive anything.
Bully
Someone who attacks, harasses, and/or teams up on someone he or she--correctly or incorrectly--deems weaker or an outsider. He or she will usually tell himself and others he is against such behavior.
Polymath:
Polymath: A generalist rather than a specialist, something increasingly difficult to be in modern times with the explosive increase in knowledge. Hence the synonym "Renaissance Man."
Politician
Politician: a sub-Renaissance man.
Sour grapes
Sour Grapes: Delicious, juicy grapes just outside one’s reach.
Delicious:
Yesterday's grapes.
Humble pie
Humble Pie: A dish best eaten in private
Dream:
Dream: The arena where the known and the hidden meet and each claims authority as the Real.
Erotic:
Erotic: Artistically pornographic.
Secret
Secret: Soon to be revealed.
Saturnine:
Saturnine: Painful expression caused by lead poisoning; sluggish and slow to respond. That is why the expressions are so weird on the old paintings when women thought lead white was beautiful.
Sanguinary:
Sanguinary: Ethically gutless and indifferent to the suffering of others
Performative:
Performative: The act of self congratulation for doing what one needed to do anyway
Lie:
Lie: To recline, lie down, lie back, be recumbent, be prostrate, be supine, be prone, be stretched out, stretch oneself out, lean back, sprawl, rest, repose, relax, lounge, loll, bask,... or tell a whopper.
Limbo
Limbo: a party game for really flexible people
Lost
One of the greatest television shows ever.
Moral:
Moral: Adherence to specific values each person defines differently. Some make many things immoral while other make few things immoral. Either will fight to the death for what they in their own minds think is perceived as a value.
Rules:
Rules: objects of unknown function commonly kept in shirt pockets by math majors.
Repulsion
Repulsion: A physical principle that keeps the universe from collapsing in on itself.
Collapse:
Collapse: A dramatically staged pratfall designed to indicate surprise, fear, fainting, etc. or perhaps something more serious, such as a heart attack
Silence:
Silence:
Ruckus
Heh heh, totally didn't get it at first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Ruckus - What one raises when one feels offended, bilked, given a raw deal and so on - or is that rumpus.
Campus
Good one Calidore!
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