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Thread: Litnet's version of Devil's dictionary

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    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

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    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.

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    Blarney: Fled's best friend.

    Zoom: That's Zoom, Zee-Double-Oh-Em, Box 350, Boston Mass 02134!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pompey Bum View Post
    Zoom: That's Zoom, Zee-Double-Oh-Em, Box 350, Boston Mass 02134!
    To this day, forty-some years later, I still can't see a Boston zip code without mentally singing it.

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    Plankton: A ton of planks, similar to "a cord of wood."

    Meter:
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    Some of us smoke
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    Meter The song a crocodile sings before dinner

    "So long - it was so nice to meter" *


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    *This may have been misheard

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    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.

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    Off the Record - Next morning's headline news.

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    Tax haven: a colony of corporate lawyers outside New Haven.

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    Gastronomy: What happens after you eat too many beans. Like astronomy, but with more gas.

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    Transit of Venus: A beautiful lady in gauze who flits across a stage

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    Mooncalf: What the cow who jumped over left behind.

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    A monastery of bats. All monasteries in England since Henry VIII turfed out those pesky priests .

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    Chess: A game that tests your intellectual capacity to focus on something irrelevant.

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