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Scuppered: From the verb “scupper”, to remove random water as well as anything else, noxious or not, floating in or carried by that water on the deck of a ship through holes conveniently left in the side by the builders of said floating device.
Alien Megastructure:
Alien Megastructure: The usual explanation for things like the Pyramids of Gaza, The Spinx, Stonehenge, etc. People don't want to think people had any type of ability to build these things without alien help despite greater constructs being built all the time as man learns more and more
Uppity:
Uppity: What dumb f**ks call standing up for yourself.
RE: the alien megastructures, you just wait. NASA will have the images any day now, and don't you be surprised if them aliens ain't got orbital McDonald's over there.
Discoverture:
Discoverture: The state of mind of an idiot who believes women cannot think for themselves unless they are under the "protection" of a husband. Have we gone backwards in time or what?
Kakistocracy:
Kakistocracy: A government by the worst of the worst. Whether we are in a kakistocracy or not depends on whether your political party won the elections.
Political Party:
Political Party: A group of felons, liars, and thieves who rally under a peculiar banner. As the Democrats use a donkey, how à propos! And since elephants are rumored to fear tiny mice, how à propos for the Republicans as well.
à propos:
à propos: The term for asking someone to be one's spouse.
Invitation
Invitation: A technology by which your body is transformed into pure energy which, due to quantum entanglement and some other groovy stuff, reappears on the other side of the galaxy, at which point the energy is converted back into your living, physical self. Wait. Sorry, that's teleportation. Invitation: when you ask out the girl with the big tits in biology class and she tells you to go reproduce yourself.
Mitzi Gaynor:
Mitzi Gaynor: A lovely woman with a wonderful career, certainly more fabulous than mine.
Quantum Entanglement:
Quantum Entanglement: The inter-relatedness of all things. For the cynic and the misanthrope, a perfect example of the unfairness of the universe.
Dictator:
Dictator: An unfortunately-shaped spud.
Potato:
Potato: Tater that lives on the wrong side of the tracks
Pop culture:
Pop culture: The science of Cola and altoids...
Proof:
Proof: A semi-logical chain of arguments beginning with unexamined assumptions and ending with questionable conclusions.
Misanthrope:
Misanthrope: I'll mail you a picture of me.
This is a personal request to whomever sees it to please try the Next Sentence game that I tried, unsuccessfully, to get going as a forum game. It involves all of us writing a story together, a sentence at a time. The results are sure to be mad-capped and jocular and involve those little wheel-shaped pasta.
Entrails.
Entrails: Official entrances to the trails through the forest preserve. Not to be confused with extrails which are the official exits.
Momentum:
Momentum: The feeling that you're going nowhere, but very fast.
Pulpit:
Pulpit: The soapbox upon which the clergy make their statements, each one slightly to definitely differing on everything including which translation of their preferred Holy Book they use. The place where men try to speak for God, whom they claim speaks to them, but who doesn't even claim to know most of them!
Preacher:
Preacher: Someone with such an uncanny close reading ability as to be able to expand a few short lines from a text, sacred or profane, into a fifty minute lecture.
Close reading:
Close reading: What I've had to do since my cataract surgery.
Apostasy:
Apostasy: An awakening to common sense.
Voucher:
Voucher: An expense account, such as a textbook voucher in collage, which unfortunately does not cover all the books required for your class
Haint:
Haint: Short for “he aint”. For example, “Haint cumin back tuh bothuh yuh no mo, Maggie. Ah seed to it.”
Common Sense:
Haint my dear YesNo, is deep Southern for "ghost" this being Halloween Month and all!
Common Sense: A published essay by Thomas Paine, one of America's Founding Fathers
Hoodoo:
Hoodoo:
1. An apostatized hodad
2. The antagonist(s) in a Hoo Dunnit
Halloween ?
Halloween: A special night for hoodoos, haints and children hungry for candy.
Candy:
Candy: The first girl who ever took a shine to me, which happened directly after the transaction was completed.
Titular:
Titular: Character lucky or unlucky enough to get his or her name into the title of a book
Vamoose:
Vamoose: To get the heck out o' there. Or, alternatively, a moose from Virginia.
Choral:
Choral: When the voice box is the musical instrument.
Cacophony
Cacophony: A heavy metal band formed in 1986 by Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Darn tootin'.
Bouillabaisse.
Bouillabaisse: In France, a national delicacy. Elsewhere, a sound associated with an unfortunate bodily function.
Charity:
Charity: Food put in a beggar’s bowl. Coins dropped in an outstretched hand. St Peter looking at you with a skeptical frown a little too long and then saying, “Ah! Go on in.”
Gooey:
gooey: the original character in jd salinger's famous work "franny and zooey." however at the editor's insistence, gooey was focus group tested and as the feedback was pretty bad, the author reluctantly changed it to zooey.
rutabaga
rutabaga: a bastard child from the turnip family, and definitely the black sheep
Gobsmacked:
Gobsmacked: Lies between dumbstruck and stupefied in the list of normal reactions to political speeches.
Psychical:
Psychical: possessing a supernatural ability to con people.
Maverick:
Maverick: The name a mad, anti-social loner charitably gives himself.
Prudence:
Prudence: A virtue associated with wisdom, sagacity and reasonable foresight when the choices made turned out to be right and stupidity otherwise.
Jack-o-lantern
Jack-o-lantern: Carved pumpkins that seem to sprout everywhere during the Halloween season. Beware of them! You may remember what happened to Ichabod Crane!
Witch: