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The Devil’s Dictionary X™
fear
1. the state of knowing pretty well what’s going on.
2. the sensation in a writer that somewhere, in something he or she has written and submitted for publication, sits the word “your” where the contraction for “you are” ought to be.
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fearful
sensible; reasonable; fully-conscious; adult.
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Feast
n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are “movable” and “immovable,” but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven.
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federal income tax
1. the national nuclear bomb fund donation program.
2. a sizable funnel into the IMF money pit.
3. the only way the Pentagon can afford quality hammers.
4. the scholarship fund for the School of the Americas.
5. a curious annual parasitic habit of the US government begun in 1913, scant years before, pure coincidence, the national economy came crashing down; a habit prohibited by the Fifth Amendment and disobedience of which is punishable by removal of all property and freedom without trial or warrant.
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fellate
a human endeavor which has never produced a single fully competent practitioner as even the best who attempt it suck.
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fellate
Latin for inflate.
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Felon
n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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Female
n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
  The Maker, at Creation’s birth,
  With living things had stocked the earth.
  From elephants to bats and snails,
  They all were good, for all were males.
  But when the Devil came and saw
  He said: “By Thine eternal law
  Of growth, maturity, decay,
  These all must quickly pass away
  And leave untenanted the earth
  Unless Thou dost establish birth” —
  Then tucked his head beneath his wing
  To laugh — he had no sleeve — the thing
  With deviltry did so accord,
  That he’d suggested to the Lord.
  The Master pondered this advice,
  Then shook and threw the fateful dice
  Wherewith all matters here below
  Are ordered, and observed the throw;
  Then bent His head in awful state,
  Confirming the decree of Fate.
  From every part of earth anew
  The conscious dust consenting flew,
  While rivers from their courses rolled
  To make it plastic for the mould.
  Enough collected (but no more,
  For niggard Nature hoards her store)
  He kneaded it to flexible clay,
  While Nick unseen threw some away.
  And then the various forms He cast,
  Gross organs first and finer last;
  No one at once evolved, but all
  By even touches grew and small
  Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade,
  To match all living things He’d made
  Females, complete in all their parts
  Except (His clay gave out) the hearts.
  “No matter,” Satan cried; “with speed
  I’ll fetch the very hearts they need” —
  So flew away and soon brought back
  The number needed, in a sack.
  That night earth range with sounds of strife —
  Ten million males each had a wife;
  That night sweet Peace her pinions spread
  O’er Hell — ten million devils dead!
G.J.
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feminism
enlightened pursuit of equity by women.
compare with masculism.

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