Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Get lucky?

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Anon.

Monday, October 5, 2009

A nip in the air?


Sweater, n. A garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Shall we?

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

George Bernard Shaw

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Strange resemblance

dop·pel·gäng·er, noun. A ghostly counterpart of a living person.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Cleansing Rituals


BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

Ambrose Bierce

Friday, July 10, 2009

Filters: Not just for making coffee.

fil·ter, n. A device that removes something from whatever passes through it, as in impurities or unwanted matter.
 
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