IDEOLOGUE
Someone who disagrees with the writer on an issue and is insufficiently apologetic
about it. [Anon] IDIOT
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has
always been dominant and controlling.
[Ambrose Bierce] IGNORANUS
A person who's both
stupid and an asshole. [Anon]
TERMINAL ILLNESS
Getting sick at the airport
[Rural] IMAGINATION
A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
[Ambrose Bierce] IMITATION
1. The sincerest form
of flattery. [Charles
Colton]
2. The sincerest form of television. [Fred
Allen] IMPARTIAL
Unable to perceive any personal
advantage in adopting either of two conflicting opinions.
[Ambrose Bierce] IMPOTENT
Distinguished, well known
[Rural] IMPUNITY
Wealth.
[Ambrose Bierce] IN'ARDS
The stomach, heart, soul
and other bowels.
[Ambrose Bierce] INCOME
A measure of respectability.
[Ambrose
Bierce] INCOMPATIBILITY
In matrimony a similarity
of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
[Ambrose Bierce] INCOMPOOP
One who declares everything
to the tax man. [Indie] INCOMPOSSIBLE
Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for
one of them, but not enough for both.
[Ambrose Bierce] TERMINAL INEXACTITUDE
A lie. [Sir Winston
Churchill] INFANCY
The period of our lives when, according
to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies about us." The world begins lying about us pretty
soon afterward.
[Ambrose Bierce] INFLATION
Cutting money in half
without damaging the paper. [Anon]
INFLUENCE
In politics, a visionary quo
given in exchange for a substantial quid.
[Ambrose Bierce] INOCCULATTE
To take coffee intravenously
when you are running late. [Anon]
INSOUPÇIANT
Indifference to the slurps of a
neighbour's cream of tomato. [Indie]
INSURANCE
Death on the instalment plan.
[Philip Slater] INTAXICATION
Euphoria at getting
a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
[Anon] INTELLECTUAL
[1] Someone whose mind watches
itself. [Albert
Camus]
[2] One who can listen to the William Tell Overature and not
think of the Lone Ranger.
[Dan Rather]
[3] A man who visits a strip club and watches the audience
[anon] INTERFACE
Face-to-face geek meeting.
[Palo Alto] INTOXICATION
The feeling of sophistication,
with the inability to say it. [Anon]
INTRAINSIGENT
Rail companies' indifference to complaints.
[Indie] INVERTIGO
Recognition that when you're not high - you're frightened.
[Anon] INYERFACE
A breakdown in essential communication.
[Indie] IRRITAINMENT
Annoyingly addictive media trivia, such as the pursuit of Clinton.
[Palo Alto] ITEM
Two people
inextricably linked. At the moment (see umfriend).
[Anon]
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