tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60622752011-12-14T04:55:52.857+01:00<B>Presentations of language and definitions in the news that deviate, or diverge, sharply from the customary or traditional content norms or accepted standards that are usuallly seen in "regular" dictionary-content explanations.</B>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1070314207846446712003-12-01T22:29:00.000+01:002003-12-01T22:30:17.720+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B> <br /> <br />Hypocaust is the word of the day.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-107031420784644671?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1070314062850273692003-12-01T22:26:00.000+01:002003-12-01T22:27:52.753+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B> <br /> <br />Testing Dec 1<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-107031406285027369?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1069932177874897242003-11-27T12:22:00.000+01:002003-11-27T12:23:06.673+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106993217787489724?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1069930758248707822003-11-27T11:59:00.000+01:002003-11-27T11:59:26.533+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106993075824870782?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1069930547591042402003-11-27T11:55:00.000+01:002003-11-27T11:57:48.456+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106993054759104240?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1069930076745551742003-11-27T11:47:00.000+01:002003-11-27T11:48:05.183+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B> <br /> <br />Testing November 27<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106993007674555174?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1069929036459153762003-11-27T11:30:00.000+01:002003-11-27T11:30:45.136+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B> <br /> <br />Testing on November 27.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106992903645915376?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1069928839506673652003-11-27T11:27:00.000+01:002003-11-27T11:27:52.903+01:00<B>New deviant definitions:</B> <br /> <br />Just testing.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106992883950667365?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1068825668834482582003-11-14T16:49:00.000+01:002003-11-15T01:01:45.560+01:00<B>More deviant definitions and observations:</B> <br /> <br />Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. <br /> <br />A backward poet writes inverse. <br /> <br />A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. <br /> <br />Dijon vu: the same mustard as before. <br /> <br />Practice safe eating: Always use condiments. <br /> <br />Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death. <br /> <br />A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy. <br /> <br />A hangover is the wrath of grapes. <br /> <br />Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play. <br /> <br />Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? <br /> <br />Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion. <br /> <br />Reading while sunbathing makes you well red. <br /> <br />When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I. <br /> <br />A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired. <br /> <br />What's the definition of a will? It's a dead giveaway. <br /> <br />Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. <br /> <br />In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes. <br /> <br />She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off. <br /> <br />A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. <br /> <br />If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed. <br /> <br />With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress. <br /> <br />When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds. <br /> <br />The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered. <br /> <br />You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it. <br /> <br />Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under. <br /> <br />He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key. <br /> <br />Every calendar's days are numbered. <br /> <br />A lot of money is tainted: It taint yours and it taint mine. <br /> <br />A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat. <br /> <br />He had a photographic memory that was never developed. <br /> <br />A plateau is a high form of flattery. <br /> <br />A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large. <br /> <br />Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end. <br /> <br />Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall. <br /> <br />Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis. <br /> <br />Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses. <br /> <br /><BR> <br /><CENTER> <br /><img src="akupunkturasm.gif" BORDER=0 align="CENTER" width="324" height="210" border=0> <br /> <br />Acupuncture is a jab well done. <br /></CENTER> <br /> <br />This list was contributed by a friend; otherwise the source is unknown.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106882566883448258?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1068638285865470722003-11-12T12:57:00.000+01:002003-11-13T09:26:33.633+01:00<B>A second set of deviant definitions:</B> <br /> <br />Adolescence: A period when teenagers feel that they will never be as ignorant as their parents. <br /> <br />Autobiography: A history of cars. <br /> <br />Belong: To take one's time. <br /> <br />Book: A diversion used to pass the time while waiting for the computer repairman. <br /> <br />Coffee: Break fluid. <br /> <br />Condescend: A prisoner escaping down the wall using a rope. <br /> <br />Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. <br /> <br />Couch potato's gym nemesis: Dreadmill. <br /> <br />Counterfeiters: Workers who put kitchen cabinets together. <br /> <br />Dentist: A magician who puts metal in someone's mouth and pulls coins from his/her pocket. <br /> <br />Dermatologist: Someone who makes rash judgments. <br /> <br />Dimly-lit restaurant: Dinner sanctum. <br /> <br />Diplomacy: The art of getting other people to do it your way. <br /> <br />Disarmament: An agreement between nations to destroy all weapons that are obsolete. <br /> <br />Eclipse: What a gardener does to a hedge. <br /> <br />Efficiency Expert: A person smart enough to tell others how to run their businesses but too smart to start his/her own. <br /> <br />Experience: The name we give to our mistakes. <br /> <br />Eyedropper: A clumsy ophthalmologist. <br /> <br />Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for world news. <br /> <br />Flashlight: A container for holding dead batteries. <br /> <br />Handicap: A ready-to-use hat. <br /> <br />Hanging: A suspended sentence. <br /> <br />Intense: Where campers sleep. <br /> <br />IOU: Paper wait. <br /> <br />Jury: Twelve people who too often determine which client has the best lawyer. <br /> <br />Lame Duck: A politician whose goose is cooked. <br /> <br />Laundress: A gown worn while sitting on the grass. <br /> <br />Left Bank: What the robber did when his bag was full of loot. <br /> <br />Magna Carta: England's first reign check. <br /> <br />Nitrate: Cheapest price for calling long distance. <br /> <br />Paradox: Two physicians. <br /> <br />Paraffins: Those extensions found on the sides of fish. <br /> <br />Paralyze: Two untruths. <br /> <br />Planning: The art of putting off until tomorrow what someone has no intention of doing today. <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.wordsources.info/words-mod-polygamyPt1.html">Polygamy</A>: Marriage to many spouses, while <B>monotony</B> is considered by some as marriage to just one spouse. <br /> <br />Polynesia: Memory loss in parrots. <br /> <br />Relief: What trees do in the spring. <br /> <br />Selfish: What the owner of a seafood store does. <br /> <br />Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark. <br /> <br />Subdued: Like, a guy who, like, works on one of those, like, submarines, man. <br /> <br />Suburbia: Where they cut down the trees and then name streets after them. <br /> <br />Tact: The ability to see others as they wish to be seen. <br /> <br />Tact: The art of making guests feel at home even when you wish they were. <br /> <br />Taxes: The only one of two certainties in life for which you can get an extension. <br /> <br />Teenager: An adolescent whose hang-ups do not include his/her clothes. <br /> <br />Thesaurus: An ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. <br /> <br />Thursday: How one feels while crossing a desert on a hot day. <br /> <br />Warehouse: What some people ask when they are lost.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6062275-106863828586547072?l=info-clips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15875271170055609346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6062275.post-1068512905769511282003-11-11T19:50:00.000+01:002003-11-14T20:51:46.380+01:00<B>Smile with these deviant definitions:</B> <br /> <br />adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. <br /> <br />beauty parlor: A place where some women go to dye. <br /> <br />cannibal: Someone who is fed up with people. <br /> <br />chickens: The only animals either eaten before they are born or after they are dead. <br /> <br />committee: A group that keeps minutes and wastes hours. <br /> <br />dust: Mud with the juice squeezed out. <br /> <br />egotist: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation. <br /> <br />gossip (n.): A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage. <br /> <br />handkerchief: Cold storage. <br /> <br />inflation: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper. <br /> <br />myth: A female moth. <br /> <br />raisin: A grape with a sunburn. <br /> <br />secret: Something told to one person at a time. <br /> <br />skeleton: A bunch of bones with the body scraped off. <br /> <br />toothache: The pain that drives a person to extraction. <br /> <br />tomorrow: One of today's greatest labor-saving devices. <br /> <br />yawn: Often an honest opinion openly expressed. <br /> <br />wrinkles: Something other people have; we have character lines. <div 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