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LABOR
One of the processes by which one man makes another
man richer.
[Ambrose Bierce] LABOR PAIN
Hurt at
work [Rural] LACTOMANGULATION
Manhandling the 'open here' spout on a milk container so badly that one has
to resort to the 'wrong' side. [Anon]
LAP-TOP
Whur the kitty sleeps
[Rural] LAWGASM
Sex with your attorney.
[Anon] LAWYER
One skilled in circumvention of the
law. [Ambrose
Bierce]
People who write a 10000-word document and call it a brief.
[Kafka] LEGACY
A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
[Ambrose Bierce] LIAR
A lawyer with a roving commission.
[Ambrose
Bierce] LIBERTY
[1] One of Imagination's most precious
possessions.
[Ambrose Bierce]
[2] Responsibility, which is why most men dread it.
[George Bernard
Shaw]
[3] Something so precious it must be rationed
[Lenin] LIES
[1] Terminological inexactitudes.
[Sir Winston Churchill]
[2] May be one of three varieties; Lies, Damn
Lies, and Statistics. [Benjamin
Disraeli] . LIFE
[1] A sexually transmitted disease.
[Anon]
[2] A spiritual
pickle preserving the body from decay.
[Ambrose Bierce]
[3] One long process of getting tired.
[Samuel Butler]
[4] An incurable disease.
[Abraham Cowley]
[5] A funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave.
[Quentin
Crisp]
[6] Sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
[O.Henry]
[7] Just one damned thing after another
[Elbert Hubbard]
[8] Statistical improbability on a colossal scale [Richard
Dawkins] LITERATURE
News that stays news [Ezra
Pound] LITIGANT
A person about to give up his skin
for the hope of retaining his bones.
[Ambrose Bierce] LITIGATION
A machine which you
go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
[Ambrose Bierce] LOAF
Head; "Use your loaf"
(Loaf of Bread). [Rhyming] LOANATION
Buying
political favours by bending the rules. [private
eye] LOG ON
Making the wood stove hotter
[Rural] LOG OFF
Take off wood 'for it gits
outa control [Rural] LOGANIMITY
The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan
of revenge.
[Ambrose Bierce] LOGIC
The art of thinking and reasoning
in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding
[Ambrose
Bierce] LONGEVITY
Uncommon extension of the fear
of death.
[Ambrose Bierce] LOQUACITY
A disorder which renders
the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
[Ambrose Bierce] LOVE
[1] An
abject relationship between tyrants and slaves (see Friendship-1)
[Oliver Goldsmith]
[2] A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by
removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
[Ambrose
Bierce]
[3] The interval between meeting a beautiful woman and discovering
she looks like a haddock [John
Barrymore]
[4] The most subtle form of self interest.
[Holbrook Jackson] LULLABUOY
An idea that keeps
floating into your head and prevents you from drifting off to sleep.
[Anon] LUMINARY
One who throws light upon a subject;
as an editor by not writing about it.
[Ambrose Bierce] LUNARIAN
An inhabitant of the moon,
as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits.
[Ambrose Bierce] LYMPH:
To walk with a lisp. [Anon]
LYRE
An ancient instrument of torture.
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