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DAG
[1] Literally, the fouled wool on a sheep's bum.
[Strine]
[2] Scruffy or unfashionable dressed person.
[Strine]
[3] Funny person, goof.
[Strine]
DAP
Handshake and greeting ritual which may last up to ten minutes.
[U.S.Nam]
DATING
The process of spending enormous amounts of time, money, and energy
to get to know a person whom you don't especially like now and will
learn to like a lot less in the future.
[Anon]
SALMON DAY
A day spent swimming upstream, only to get nowhere.
[Palo Alto]
D & C
Where Washington is
[Rural]
DEAD DABS
A dead ringer; "My uncle is the dead dabs for Frank Sinatra."
[Coal-Speak]
DEATH
The only thing yet to be completely vulgarized. [Aldous
Huxley]
DEBT
An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DECAFFLON
Getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
[Anon]
DEFAME
To lie about another. To tell the truth about another. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DEFEAT
Is an Orphan (see victory).
[John
F. Kennedy]
DEJA FU
The feeling that somehow, somewhere, you've been kicked in the head
like this before. [Anon]
DELIBERATION
The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered
on. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DEMOCRACY
[1] Government by the uneducated (see aristocracy).
[G.K.Chesterton]
[2] A device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
[George Bernard Shaw]
[3] The recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right,
more than half the time [E.B.White]
DEPRESSION
When you lose your job (see recession).
[Harry
S. Truman]
DESIRE
The very essence of man. [Benedict
Spinoza]
DIAGNOSTIC
One who thinks there may be two gods. Or not.
[Anon]
DIAPHRAGM
A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders
of the bowels. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DICKY BIRD
Word; "Don't say a Dicky Bird".
[Rhyming]
DIET
Triumph of mind over platter. [Gerald F. Lieberman]
DILATE
To live long [Rural]
DILBERTED
To be bullied or humiliated by the boss.
[Palo Alto]
DIMP
A person who insults you in a cheap department store by asking, "Do
you work here?" [Anon]
DIPLOMACY
[1] The patriotic art of lying for one's country. [Ambrose
Bierce]
[2] The art of letting someone else have your way.
[Anon]
[3] The continuation of war by other means. [Chou
En Lai]
DIPLOMAT
Someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you feel happy to
be on your way. [Anon]
DISCONFECT
To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing
on it, somehow assuming this will remove all the germs.
[Anon]
DISCOVERY
Seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. [Albert
Szent-Gyorgyl]
DISCRIMINATE
To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible,
more objectionable than another. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DISTANCE
The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs,
and keep. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DOG
Telephone; "I've been on the dog for hours" (Dog and Bone).
[Rhyming]
DONTOPEDOLOGY
The art of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. [Prince
Philip]
DOORGASM
Sex in the foyer. [Anon]
DOPELAR EFFECT
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when you come at them
rapidly. [Anon]
DORK
See dweeb
[Anon]
DORKGASM
Sex with a nerd. [Anon]
DOS
Defective Operating System.
[Palo Alto]
DOT COM
Internet company, noted for spending millions on marketing just before
stock exchange launch.
DOT CORPSE
The same company, a few months after the stock exchange launch.
DOT CORPS
Traditional companies, trying to persuade stockholders that they have
the qualities of a dot com. For some reason.
DOUBLETHINK
The ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously,
and accept both of them. [George Orwell]
DOWNLOAD
Gettin the farwood off'n the truk
[Rural]
DRAMATIST
One who adapts plays from the French. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DRILLIUM
Part with holes drilled in to make it lighter.
[MTBike]
DRONGO
Dope, stupid person.
[Strine]
DUH!
Response to the kind of person who gets Heenan's
Universal Dictionary back-to-front.
DULLARD
A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. [Ambrose
Bierce]
LOSER DUST
Invisible substance covering those who can do nothing right.
[Palo Alto] .
DUSTBUSTER
Phone call or e-mail message after a long silence - just to "shake
the dust off". [Palo
Alto]
DUTCH
Wife (Duchess of Fyfe)
[Rhyming]
DUTY
That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line
of desire. [Ambrose
Bierce]
DWEEB
See eedjit
[Anon]
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