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    A method of applying pressure to such things as planks, by hitting those people who disagree with you over the head with it. See also "two short planks"

    Gratification
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    Gratification: The moment at which the ephemeral beauty of the dream crumbles into the arduous mundanity of reality. A will-o'-the-wisp that truly leads people to their destruction.

    Mother:
    "I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche

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    Mother - that person in your life who still asks you when you are 50 if you know what you're doing, when you'e been doing it for years, and they haven't done so for almost exactly the same period of time.

    parachute
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    parachute - gambling for people who are too cheap or stupid to play poker


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    An Afrikaans proverbs - Aardvark nivver hurt inywun.

    Ponderous
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    A month to the very day into this and you've come up with a pun that made me laugh. In fact, I'm tempted to mail it to people (uncredited, obviously)>
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    Ponderous of or pertaining to things that live in ponds, such as frogs, newts, and snapping turtles


    Manna
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkBastable View Post
    A month to the very day into this and you've come up with a pun that made me laugh. In fact, I'm tempted to mail it to people (uncredited, obviously)>
    Thank you - you've done wonders for my confidence! Please feel free, but I warn you, it's an ancient joke.
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    Manna - Biblical food that's just lying around on the floor when you wake up. Like bits of kebab. You'd have to be very very hungry to eat it.

    The word 'manna' is derived from the Ancient Hebrew for 'wtf'. True.


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    polymer: those units of life that programme you to be a *beep* and make you into this "beep* world

    (Wow, by Allah I just studied this in bio class the other day Mark ^_^ It's fate)

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    The feeling that you get when you know that something is unattainable, and you get sufficiently unbalanced that you put faith in falling stars, or throw money in to wishing wells that are run by the Local Council.

    pomposity
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    pomposity The feeling of false intellect that drives a good man to being bad and a bad man over the edge

    Madness
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    A level of sanity which, if accurate, writes more than half of the world's painters, writers and musicians - which is madness.

    Lucidity
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    lucidity: A drug advertised in Vanilla Sky movie to give you hope that you can eat cloud ice-cream.

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    That which by any other name still smells of the stuff they grew it in. See politics.

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