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- FAA
- 1. Federal Anxiety Administration.
- 2. Federal Anal Assessors.
- 3. our nation’s expert logicians, who together have decided that stripping passengers of their right to privacy, removing all guarantees regarding their property, then cluttering as many of them into an airport at a time as possible provides an additional line of defense against fanatical terrorism; this theory is based on the astute assumption that terrorists, however shrewd, are entirely and exclusively bent on killing people once they are airborne.
- fact
- 1. that which is objectively true.
- 2. something provable.
- 3. a quantifiable piece of information.
- 4. a good guess.
- 5. the way one remembers a thing.
- 6. adultery.
- fad
- the exaggerated and temporary interest in another’s over-blown and short-lived interest in a thing; the theoretical tipping point of monkey see, monkey do.
- faggot
- a man living an unnatural lifestyle; e.g., a white rapper.
- fagot
- a bassoon, from the Italian, fagotto; fagot is the instrument, not to be confused with the bassoonist who is properly called a “fagot blower.”
- fair use
- a survival tactic—by keeping one’s pilfering to a sugar-packet and office-pen level, one can make retribution of any scale seem unfair and thus defer punishment till the day a lexicographer’s children are grown.
- Fairy
- n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies’ power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for “Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge” a fairy, and it was universally respected.
- Faith
- n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- faith
- 1. fidelity and allegiance to an idea, a place, or a person.
- 2. abdication of all thought to an idea, a place, or a person.
see also belief.
