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- Dawn
- n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.
- Day
- n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper — the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort. These two kinds of social activity overlap.
- déjà vu
- you read this already; it was funnier the first time.
- DBA
- a computer science acronym for “don’t bother asking.”
- dead
- an absolute level of well-being which is identified by a profound resistance to stress and diseases as well as a marked tolerance to pain and hunger; perfect health.
- Dead
- adj.
Done with the work of breathing; done
Squatol Johnes
With all the world; the mad race run
Though to the end; the golden goal
Attained and found to be a hole! - deadline
- 1. an editor’s shameless display of authoritarian hypocrisy involving an arbitrary date and 1-20 weeks of presumable leeway.
- 2. what you’ll have to listen to in response the next time you see fit to call me at home.
- death
- 1. a mere formality separating you from intimate personal acquaintance with the great lexicographer.
- 2. a step which, as often as not, precedes dishonor.
- debate
- common name for a lost argument.
