A few creative definitions for you as listed on Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary:
Justice: A commodity which is a more or less aduleterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for allegiance, taxes, and personal service
Lawyer: One skilled in the circumvention of the law
Liar: A Lawyer with a roving comission
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possession's
Litigant: A person who is willing to give up his skin to retain his bones
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage
Overwork: A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting
Redress: Reparation without satisfaction
Truthful: Dumb and illiterate
Monday, December 26, 2005
Screw Oxford, I'm Going With Ambrose Bierce
Posted by The Namby Pamby at 12:08 PM
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