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The New Foxford Dictionary

FROM the New Foxford Dictionary (latest 2003 Edition).

Atom bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool on the other.
Classic: A book which people praise but do not read.
Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individuallt and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Conference room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
Criminal: A guy no different from the rest... except that he got caught.
Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.
Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Divorce: Future tense of marriage.
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
Father: A banker provided by nature.
Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing trough the minds of either.
Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
Office: A place where you can relax after your strenous home life.
Opportunist: A person who starts taking a bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
Optimist: A person who, while falling from the Eiffel Tower, says midway, "See I am not injured yet."
Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water power.
Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

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