DEFINITIONS
ACCIDENT: Where presence of mind is good but absence of body is better!
ADAM: A self-maid man!
ALTRUISM: The art of doing unselfish things for selfish reasons!
ALIMONY: The high cost of loving!
AGITATOR: A man who spouts about Capital & Labor but who never has any capital and never does any labor!
JAIL: The best place to find men with convictions!
JOKEBOOK: A jest seller!
JUDGE: A lawyer who knew a politician!
JANITOR: The only man who can make a quick clean-up in Wall Street and get away with it!
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR: A misprint that can turn a hat into a cat and a baby sitter into a baby sister!
PRAYER: A message to Heaven, usually sent at night to get the low rate!
ADDRESSEE: The last person to read a post-card!
ALARM-CLOCK: An invention used to awake adults who have no babies!
- From Evan Esar's Comic Dictionary, Bramhall House, New York, 1960 -
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