Friday, May 4, 2007

DD14. MORE DEFT DEFINITIONS

HOBBY a) Spice in the mill of life.
b)A safety valve which prevents a man from blowing up from too much pressure in his daily work.
HOME a) The spot of earth supremely blest. A clearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
The place where a man is free to say anything he pleases because nobody pays any attention to him.
b) An invention on which no one has improved yet!
HOME-WORK The penalty for the crime of being a student.
HONESTY A type of insurance policy that used to be issued in the good old days. It was paying rich dividends, but unfortunately the policy lapsed and now its revival is posing insurmountable problems, with the changed values of life.
HONOUR Reward of virtue - a blind angel.
HONEYMOON a) Coo - existence.
b) A short period of doting between the dating and debating.
HOPE a) Poor man's bread and butter.
b) A good breakfast, but a bad supper.
c)A gift superior than life itself. With it, life is full, interesting and useful.
d) The only universal liar who never loses her reputation for veracity.
e) Deceitful, as she is, serves at heart to conduct us through life by an agreeable path.
HOSPITAL Vicious, alienating death factories.
HOUSEWORK Something you do that nobody in your family notices unless you don't do it.
HUG Energy gone to waist.
HUMILITY a) Test of greatness.
b) Hallmark of holiness.
c) The root, mother, nurse, foundation and bound of all virtue.
d) A strange possession , which, the moment you feel you have got it, you lose it.
e) Solid foundation of all virtues.
f) That low sweet root from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
g)Truly achieved when you have stopped thinking about yourself.
HUNCH a) Reverse of logic.
b) A riddle that eludes solution.
c)Conclusions based on facts stored on some unconscious level.
HUSBAND a) A person who thinks that he bosses the house, while, in fact, he houses the boss.
b) One who lays down the law to his wife and then accepts all her amendments.
HYPOCRISY Homage paid by vice to virtue.

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