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- reading
- one of the seven lost arts along with letter writing, conversation, good diction, responsibility, rational thought, and foreplay.
- Reading
- n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it
consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in “dialect” and
humor in slang.
We know by one’s reading
Jupiter Muke
His learning and breeding;
By what draws his laughter
We know his Hereafter.
Read nothing, laugh never —
The Sphinx was less clever! - Reagan, Ronald
- 1. one whose fateful election to US Presidency detoured what might have been a successful and appropriate career as the recurring bad guy on The Muppet Show.
- 2. one whose horrible, intellectually debilitating disease turned out to be the nicest thing anyone could think to say about him.
- Reaganomics
- a national economic policy wherein the rich are given incentives to make more money and to urinate on the poor, this was meant to produce the secondary effect called trickle down; syn voodoo economics.
see also Ronald Reagan. - real estate
- 1. a business estate; as opposed to the imaginary kinds of estates which artists hold.
- 2. land owned by banks and inhabited by dreamers.
- 3. a language of 2,000 words—chosen at random from French, Latin and Middle English—which is as absent of rules and logic as it is controlled by the few who speak it; pidgin phrases understood by laymen include “Sign here” and “Initials please.”
- Realism
- n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
- Reality
- n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
- reality television
- 1. the most outright contradiction in terms to be introduced to America’s vocabulary since the government started its “War is Peace” campaign via Fox News.
- 2. non-actors acting out parts unwritten by non-writers; professional amateurism.
- 3. what can make it to the airwaves when everyone at a television network except the marketing department goes on vacation at the same time.
- 4. video surveillance equal in cost and entertainment value to the playback from a convenience store camera, but for a severe drawback on the television version, that being the insertion of vomitus dialog.
- Really
- adv. Apparently.
