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MAD
Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MAGIC
An art of converting superstition into coin.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MAGI-NATION
A nation prepares its royal Christmas gifts.
[Indie]
MAGNETSomething acted upon by magnetism.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MAGNETISM
Something acting upon a magnet.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MAIN-FRAME
Holds up the barn ruf
[Rural]
MALEFACTOR
The chief factor in the progress of the human race.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MAMMON
The god of the world's leading religion
[Ambrose Bierce]
MARRIAGE
[1] A community consisting of two people; a master, a mistress and
two slaves
[Ambrose Bierce] .
[2] A book, in which the first chapter is written in poetry, the remainder
in prose.
[Beverly Nichols]
MARTYR
One who moves towards death along the line of least reluctance.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MASTURBATION
[1] The opposite of the weather. Nearly everyone does it, but hardly
anyone talks about it. [Dr.
Ruth Westheimer]
[2] In the nineteenth century, a disease; in the twentieth, a cure.
[Thomas
Szasz]
MAUSOLEUM
The final and funniest folly of the rich.
[Ambrose Bierce]
McCARTHYISM
Americanism with its sleeves rolled.
[McCarthy]
MEDICINE
A noble profession, but a damn bad business.
[Humphrey Rolleston]
MEEDER
Parking Meter, As in 'Gotnee korders for da' meeder?'
[Coal-Speak]
THE MEEK
Those who will inherit the Earth. But not the mineral rights.
[Paul Getty]
MEGAHURTZ
One thousand aches. [Anon]
MEMORANDUM
A note, not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
[Dean Acheson]
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
When ya cain't member whut ya paid for yer new rifle when your wife
asks. [Rural]
MEN
The triumph of mind over morals (see women).
[Oscar Wilde]
MERCHANT
One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in
which the thing pursued is a dollar.
[Ambrose Bierce]
METAJACKING
Stealing the content of another site's HTML meta tag hoping to place
your site higher in a search engine's results.
[Palo Alto]
METROSEXUAL
A heterosexual man who's in touch with his feminine side; one who
weeps during Sleepless In Seattle.
[Anon]
MICROSOFT
Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
(Details).
[Palo Alto]
MIDDLE AGE
When one begins to exchange emotions for symptoms [Irving
S. Cobb]
MILLIHELEN
Sufficient beauty to launch one ship (see helen).
[Anon]
MILITAINMENT
Political art of making war look painless.
[Dan Rather]
MISFORTUNE
The kind of fortune that never misses.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MODEM
Whatcha did to the hay fields last fall
[Rural]
MONARCHY
The oldest profession in the world.
[Prince Charles]
MONITOR
Keepin an eye on that thar wood stove
[Rural]
MORALITY
A complicated gesture learned from books.
[Robert Bolt]
MORBID
A higher offer [Rural]
MOREGASM
Sex with a nymphomaniac.
[Anon]
MOUSE POTATO
The on-line version of the Couch Potato.
[Anon]
MULTITASKING
1. The ability to wait impatiently at the checkout for five minutes
then spend five minutes searching for a credit card (women)
[Anon]
2. The ability to watch television, drink beer and scratch (men)
[Anon]
MUGWUMP
In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice
of independence. A term of contempt.
[Ambrose Bierce]
MUPPET
See nerd.
[Anon]
MURMURATION
Collective noun for starlings.
MUSIC
The only sensual pleasure without vice.
[Samuel Johnson]
MYOPICT
A short-sighted Scot.
[Indie]
CYBURBAN MYTH
Stories about the Net that have little basis in fact.
[Palo Alto]
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