| #7232 Dopeler effect The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
From The Washington Post,s Style Invitational competition, where readers were asked to take any word from the dictionary, ... |
| #7231 Tourists (noun) People who are taking training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had about three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists." ... |
| #7230 Sterilize (verb) What you do to your first baby,s pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby,s pacifier by blowing on it.
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| #7228 Porridge (noun) Recipe (noun)... |
| #7227 Tongue (noun) A variety of meat.
Rarely served as it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.
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| #7226 Beepilepsy The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
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| #7225 Bookmark To take note of a person for future reference (a metaphor borrowed from web browsers). "I bookmarked him after seeing his cool demo at Siggraph."
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| #7224 Calorie (noun Basic measure of the amount of rationalization offered by the average individual prior to taking a second helping of a particular food... |
| #7223 Microwave Oven (noun) Space-age kitchen appliance that uses the principle of radar to locate and immediately destroy any food placed within the cooking compartment.
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| #7222 Preheat (verb) To turn on the heat in an oven for a period of time before cooking a dish.
Allows for the fingers to be burned when placing the food into the oven, as well as when taking the food out.
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| #7220 Recipe (noun) A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don,t own, to make a dish the dog won,t eat the rest of.
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| #7219 Yogurt (noun) Semi-solid dairy product made from partially evaporated and fermented milk. Yogurt is one of only three foods that taste exactly the same as they sound. The other two are goulash and squid.
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| #7218 Auditor (noun) Someone who arrives after the battle and bayonets all the wounded.
Why did the auditor cross the road?
Because he looked in the file and that,s what they did last year.
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| #7217 Lipstick (noun On your lips, coloring to enhance the beauty of your mouth.
On his collar, coloring only a tramp would wear!
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| #7216 Banana Problem (noun) The situation that results when one is uncertain as to when a project is actually finished (and when, therefore, to stop revising it)
2. A condition sometimes afflicting Web sites, in which the Web... |