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The Devil’s Dictionary X™

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The Devil’s Dictionary X™

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telecommute
1. to fall asleep on a bus or train and wake up at one’s dreaded stop-point.
2. what the word commute becomes to those fortunate enough to have reduced their workdays to making a few calls a day from home.
3. to feel as if one has traveled by way of a couple good hours of television or Internet surfing in the early evening; numbness; multi-media paralysis; video assisted assimilation slash brain death in a box.
telemarketing
what Americans generally understood “terrorism” to mean before the autumn of 2001.
teleology
the study of the lives of models and moviestars.
Teletubbies
an abortive attempt to create mascots for the IUD industry—the characters, each wearing a different style of device on their heads, were repurposed for children’s television, that is television for the children they failed to prevent.
television, American
the new required reading, worldwide.
temp-agency
1. a self-esteem vacuum; the business of offering employees a semi-flexible schedule in exchange for all of their rights and self-respect.
2. the opposite of Prozac, equivalent to a depression pill; see also bus-stop.
3. as of November, 1999, spoken in repetition, “temp-agency,” (or “temp-agencies”) is legally considered an indication of intent to commit suicide, and the passer-by shall be held responsible by law to dial 9-1-1 in such instances.
more at cop.
Ten Commandments
a stone artifact of divine rules which over the years has needed so many amendments that it’s been replaced by an erasable plastic bond, with the current heading: Several Modest Suggestions.
tenacious
1. a telemarketer whose commissions have fallen off.
2. a telemarketer with a drug habit.
3. a telemarketer with a mortgage.
terrorism
1. a fine kind of “how-do-you-do.”
2. putting a carton of milk back in the refrigerator even though you know it’s been on the counter for the better part of 7 hours.
3. whatever we’re crying to the UN about on a given week.
4. pushing the time on your spouse’s alarm clock ahead a couple hours.
5. elbowing your spouse in the nose while pretending to be asleep.
6. looking or acting ethnic in an American diner.
7. dozens of packages at America’s doorstep, marked “c/o CIA/FBI/NSA/etc,” topped with a card, reading: “How about a taste of your own medicine?”

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