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SAABATH Swedish car wash.
[Indie] SADDO See twerp
[Anon] SAINT A dead sinner revised and edited.
[Ambrose Bierce] SALVOS The Salvation Army.
[Strine] SARCHASM: The gulf between the author of sarcastic
wit and the reader who doesn't get it. [Anon]
SATIRIST One who describes things exactly
as they are. See Romantic. [Crisp]
SAW A trite popular saying, or proverb, so called because
it makes its way into a wooden head.
[Ambrose Bierce] SCARE-DO Over the top hair style.
[Queen's] SCHIZONOMIA
cancer of the pseudonym.
[Richard Bachman] SCIENCE [1] Trained and organised
common sense.
[Aldous Huxley] [2] The art of systematic over-simplification.
[Karl Popper]
[3] Ninety per cent boredom. [Lord
Winston] SCOREGASM Sex with a competitive partner
[Anon] SCREEN Whut to shut when its blak fly season
[Rural] SCRIBBLER A professional writer whose views
are antagonistic to one's own.
[Ambrose Bierce] SECRECY The first essential in affairs
of the state
[Cardinal Richelieu] SECRETION Hiding something
[Rural] SECRET
Something you tell to one person at a time.
[Anon] SEIZURE A Roman Emperor
[Rural] SELF-DENIAL The effect of prudence on rascality.
[G.B.Shaw]
SELF-ESTEEM An erroneous appraisement.
[Ambrose Bierce] SELF-EVIDENT Evident to one's self
and to nobody else.
[Ambrose Bierce] SELFISH Devoid of consideration
for the selfishness of others.
[Ambrose Bierce] SELF-SACRIFICE A means of sacrificing
other people without blushing.
[G.B.Shaw] SEMANTICS: Pranks conducted by young men studying
for the priesthood, such as gluing the pages of the priest's prayer book together
just before vespers. [Anon] SEX
[1] Not the only thing on Earth [Ann
Widdecombe] [2] One of nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight
are unimportant.
[Henry Miller] SHEENY Peddler or street vendor, usually
of used articles or scrap; "If you don't behave yourself, we'll sell ya to the
sheeny." [Coal-Speak] AUTOMATIC
SHIFT When the driver moves closer to his girlfriend.
[Anon] SHIN Device for finding furniture in the
dark. [Palo Alto] SHYNESS
Egotism out of its depth.
[Penelope Keith] SILENCE [1] The most perfect expression
of scorn.
[G.B.Shaw] [2] The unbearable repartee
[Chesterton] SITCOM What yuppies turn into when they have children:
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
[Anon] SLAGIATT Seemed like a good idea at the time - ideal
trial plea, when "Guilty" and "Not Guilty" are just too subjective.
[Anon] FREUDIAN
SLIP When you say one thing and mean your mother.
[Anon] SLOTHARIO A man who aims to attract women
through slow-witted ignorance. [Indie]
SMITHAREEN A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain.
[Ambrose
Bierce] SMOKE-O A break from work to indulge in
chit-chat and a cigarette. [Strine]
SNARKITIS An uncontrollable tendency to be picky, severe cases
may include whining and schadenfreude. [HUD] SNERT Obnoxious
person who offends in an online chat room. (sexually nerdish expressively recidivistic
troll). [Palo Alto] SNOREGASM
Sex without waking [Anon]
SNOWMINE Potentially dangerous object hidden by snow
on the trail. [MTBike] SOARGASM
Sex in a glider [Anon] SOBER
A condition in which it is almost impossible to fall in love.
[Anon] SOCIALISM The intention to raise suffering to a higher
level. [Mailer]
SOFTWARE Them dang plastik forks and knifs
[Rural] SOLITUDE The most companionable companion.
[Henry
Thoreau] SORCERY The ancient prototype and forerunner
of political influence
[Ambrose Bierce] SOREGASM Too much sex
[Anon] SPAMOFLAGE Bulk email messages delivered from
generic email addresses with innocuous subject headers in order to confound filtering
programs and spam-haters. [Palo Alto]
SPORT Hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for rules and
sadistic pleasure in violence ... War minus the shooting.
[George Orwell] SPUNK Good looking person (of either
sex). [Strine] SPUSH
Indiscriminate, spamlike applications of push-media technology.
[Palo Alto] MEDICAL STAFF A doctor's cane
[Rural] STATESMAN [1] A
person with whose politics you agree.
[Lloyd George] [2] A politician
who places himself at the service of the nation.
[Georges Pompidou] [3] A dead politician. [John
Major] STICKYBEAK Nosey person.
[Strine] STOREGASM Sex at the supermarket
[Anon] STRAIGHT LINE Shortest distance between two jokes.
[Anon] STRATEGY Knowing what to do when
there is nothing to do. See Tactics
[Savielly Tartakower 1887-1956] STREWTH Exclamation
expressing surprise. From 'God's truth'.
[Strine] SUBSTITIOUS Believing in things which are
true, but no-one else believes (eg. 'It'll get better if you don't pick at it')
[Terry
Pratchett] SUBVERTISEMENT Using the techniques of
Madison Square to promote an anti-consumerism message.
[Palo Alto] SUCCESS [1] The one unpardonable sin
against one's fellows.
[Ambrose Bierce] [2] Going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
[Sir Winston
Churchill] SUPERMODEL Model.
[Kington] SUPERSTITION The religion of feeble minds.
[Edmund Burke]
SWASHBUNGLER Would-be Romeo, who contrives to bore Juliet
off her feet, with enthusiastic but futile attempts to impress. [Bonawitz] SYNTHESPIAN
A digitally created character. Also called vactor (virtual actor).
[Palo Alto] SYCOPHANT One who approaches Greatness
on his belly.
[Ambrose Bierce] SYRUP Hair piece (Syrup of Fig
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