Sep 21, 2001 21:42
From the Ad Usquian Dictionary (Dublin: Canon Press, 1876):
Aeroplane: (n.) a combustible vehicle designed to carry heroic passengers and sell periodicals.
Afghanistan: (n. reg.) a country as fractured as the Union of the United States.
Army: (n.) a band of avowed heterosexual men paid to kill the pregnant.
Condolences: (n. plural) wishing those you neither care nor support sympathy (freq. means to ostentaciously sign a piece of paper while feigning grief).
Coward: (n.) an individual who dies in the solid, disciplined belief of their convictions. (previously known as a martyr).
Crusade: (n.) a religious war fought by an alliance of secular states.
Dictator: (n.) a person frequently elected by the multitudes.
Foreign Policy: (n.) the ability of a Nation to govern abroad.
Guilty: (adj.) those who are victims.
Hero: (n.) any passanger responsible for the deaths of many. Also, any human who get unintentionally slain by collapsing masonry (usually only applied to those with wife and child/ ren).
Innocent: (n. & adj.) pedestrian lives lived wealthily.
Islam: (n. relig.) a theology as diseased as any Christic other.
Israel: (n. proper) an apartheid theocracy that claims legitimacy from apocryphal post-Exilic texts.
Laden: (n.) a barber's favoured client.
Lingerie: (n. vulgar) worn over men's heads to disguise (archaic - underwear worn by harlots).
Martyr: (n.) a solid citizen who does not request a funeral.
Newspapers: (n. plural) a locus where advertisers vie for the souls of vampires.
Patriotism - (abstact n.) the ability of dispirate groupings to consummate an idiotic union.
Pentagon: (n. archit.) having lost one of its sides to be renamed Cuatrogon.
President: (n. masc.) a man whose lack of geographical knowledge is only superseded by his poor vocabulary.
Prime Minister (n. masc.) ones whose grief is greater than all (a variated form of the word - expediency)
Stock Exchange: (n. instit.) an institution promoting genocide.
Terrorism: (n.) war not funded by the taxpayer.
Taleban: (n.) non-elected government of a regionalised territory ( see President, Vote-based Democracy, Hypocrisy).
United Nations: (n. plural) an organisation whose constituion differs from its actions only in intent.
Villain: (n.) one who does not sit at cabinet.
Wall Street: (n.) where society imprisons its murderers.
Ad Usque (Emperor of the Netheregions) has made an editorial decision not to comment further on any "terrorist" forrays onto Uncle Samuel's Front Porch. Boredom and an impending job are the chief reasons for this action, as is the syphillitic illness of his wife Mrs. Ad Libitum.
Seven million more newspapers were printed and bought this week than previoulsy averaged. Who struts on whose grave?
AU.