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Automobile, n.:
A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down pedestrians.
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Bachelor:
A guy who is footloose and fiancee-free.
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Bachelor:
A man who chases women and never Mrs. one.
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Backward conditioning:
Putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring.
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Bagbiter:
1. n.; Equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently. 2.
adj.: Failing hardware or software. "This bagbiting system won't let me get
out of spacewar." Usage: verges on obscenity. Grammatically separable; one
may speak of "biting the bag". Synonyms: LOSER, LOSING, CRETINOUS,
BLETCHEROUS, BARFUCIOUS, CHOMPER, CHOMPING.
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Bagdikian's Observation:
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper
is like trying to play Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" on a ukelele.
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Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry:
A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by
governors.
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Ballistophobia:
Fear of bullets;
Otophobia:
Fear of opening one's eyes.
Peccatophobia:
Fear of sinning.
Taphephobia:
Fear of being buried alive.
Sitophobia:
Fear of food.
Trichophobbia:
Fear of hair.
Vestiphobia:
Fear of clothing.
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Banacek's Eighteenth Polish Proverb:
The hippo has no sting, but the wise man would rather be sat upon
by the bee.
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Banectomy, n.:
The removal of bruises on a banana.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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