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- obedience
- a quality which delineates the finest of dogs and brides.
- Objectivism
- a modern theory of ethics stating that the highest moral value is to be found in the objective—best summed up by its anonymous antecedent: the ends justify the means.
see also objectivist and Ayn Rand. - objectivist
- 1. one who objects.
- 2. one who is objective to the point of becoming objectionable.
more at Objectivism. - oblige
- to leave an opening or reveal a weakness; to empower another for the abuse of one’s trust.
- obscure
- 1. majenta.
- 2. self-reference; as in a joke on a magazine in the magazine itself.
- 3. Ambrose Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary” published on such and such a date, later recalled by such and such Internet authors.
- 4. round about, unnoticed self-denigration.
- 5. Gwinnett.
- odd
- 1. thinking twice about information received on mainstream television news.
- 2. thinking at all about the motives of one’s government.
- 3. asking what the price of an item is, and then choosing whether or not to buy the item according to the price.
- official
- 1. fake; meatless; pretense of meaning or status; academic.
- 2. typed or printed, as opposed to handwritten.
- old age
- 1. the nearly final stage of life, when a being is no longer capable of activity, apart from vocal criticism and unconscious manipulation.
- 2. the opposite of New Age, though equally vague and nonsensical.
more at New Age. - on the lam
- fleeing to evade capture; not to be confused with the Scottish expression, “on the lamb.”