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- Rash
- adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
”Now lay your bet with mine, nor let
Bootle P. Gish
These gamblers take your cash.”
“Nay, this child makes no bet.” “Great snakes!
How can you be so rash?” - rather
- a word used in Britain for quaintness, e.g., “rather pointless,” in college papers for contrast, and by children to express which fast food chain they prefer.
- Rational
- adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
- Rattlesnake
- n. Our prostrate brother, Homo ventrambulans.
- rave
- an open-air version of the early 1970s marketed to children.
- Razor
- n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.
- résumé
- 1. a targeted collection of lies.
- 2. an uncomfortable combing of one’s past for any events conveying: “I’m better than you deserve but have such low self-esteem that I’ll never bring it up during salary discussions.”
see also volunteer-work. - 3. elaborate fabrications regarding one’s qualifications for sucking it up; a virtual make-over.
- Reach
- n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within
which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the
propensity to provide.
This is a truth, as old as the hills,
G.J.
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment of his reach. - reach
- just shy of the minimum distance one is safe to vocalize truth.
