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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

The Satanic Supplement

Brilliant,adj. In standard English, incandescent, luminous, outstanding. In demotic English, competent without being irksome.

Denazification,n. The process whereby, at the end of the Second World War, the short crop was introduced into French hairdressing while selected portions of the Nazi menace were amicably converted into a bulwark against Bolshevism.

Easter,n. Consumption of chocolate eggs in memory of a debatably failed execution.
A man hanging nailed to a cross
Cried, "This proves that Jehovah's the boss;
So do as I say,
And each year on this day,
Guzzling sweets shall ye mourn for My loss."
Rev. Wibley Beamish


Irrelevance,n. Any fact which ends up on the cutting-room floor during the business of editing truth into argument.

Narrow-minded,adj. Insufficiently attentive to your lengthier spiritual, ontological and epistemological discourses.

Personality,n. A particular person's faults, considered in a body; or, in the entertainment industry, a particular fault embodied in a person.

Tragedy,n. In ancient Greece, a sacred art form offering purgation through pity and terror. In modern Britain, any real-life soap opera reported by the tabloids and involving a death over which gloating is not considered socially acceptable.

Wrunk,n. A clout with something heavy and metallic.
Seizing the wrench she delivered him a wrunk fit to fell a rhino.
Breeley Snurge

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