chewing gum – what your beloved pet dog is doing when it is destroying your dentures.
Tag: mara’s dictionary
hippocampus
a college (esp. for hippopotamuses) which specialises in the study of the workings of human short-term memory.
selfish
a person who hoards the money he or she makes from selling a lot of fish. (origin – sell fish)
spring
the period after winter when farm machinery are said to “spring“ back to life.
Derrida
The misspelling of ‘the reader’.
sustainable economics
What economists think is possible but environmentalists know is not.
Shakyamuni (The Buddha)
The distant relative of 1980s pop sensation Chaka Khan.
postmodernism
What bloggers do when they blog poorly – they post modernism.
politics
The main hinderance to the wellbeing of the people of other nations.
park ranger
The electronic device on the back of modern cars that warn you before you reverse into an endangered tree.
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