Litnet's version of Devil's dictionary

[MarkBastable]

Computer - a device which those who revile it use to broadcast their estimation of how much better life was before it



marmalade

[dafydd manton]

What happened to Queen Victoria.

Semaphore

[ennison]

Marmalade - An "English" word made in Spain from a fruit that cannot be grown in England.
Spaghetti

[Ruminate]

This is a fantastic game-Loksenna and Mark, you guys have me laughing all the way across the Atlantic!

Marmalade - A lazy jam maker's very successful deception

Purse

[ennison]

Semaphore - The speed at which I operate my computer so that Daffyd's definition of marmalade speeds through the ether at a speed faster than semaphore.

Spaghetti

[ennison]

gee I'm caught in a semaphoric cycle!

Purse Coin container the right size for the fist of one's offsprogs.

Consternation

[dafydd manton]

A very serious way of looking at the stars.

Pedigree

[ennison]

What a poverty struck arist-o-crat lives on when there's no more Purina

Ambitextrous

Yep sic

[dafydd manton]

The ability to press the "t" key with either hand.

garnet

[ennison]

Garnet - a small child from Yorkshire or thereabouts Diminutive of Garn - his parent.

miscegnation

[Nikhar]

This is a fantastic game-Loksenna and Mark, you guys have me laughing all the way across the Atlantic!

And no credit goes to the guy who began the game.

[dafydd manton]

Any country that does not have beer in big metal barrels.

Folk-music

[Paulclem]

Any country that does not have beer in big metal barrels.

Folk-music

Folk music - music that other folk listen to.

ruminate

[giventofly]

Ruminate -- To take a long, relaxing soak in a tub of rum.

extrapolate

[Ruminate]

Sorry Nikhar, I must have stumbled into the middle of this! Nice to meet you -all credit to the original genius

Have to say, I like the definition of my namesake!

Extrapolate - An embarassed explanation detailing the reason the birthday/anniversary/wedding present showed up two weeks after the fact

Boron