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Off topic: Basic definitions which we normally get wrong!!!!! Vestluse postitaja: Ritu Bhanot
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Just for fun...
Few Definitions
School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.
Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that
you can die Rich.
Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.
Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.
Divorce... See more Just for fun...
Few Definitions
School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.
Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that
you can die Rich.
Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.
Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.
Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.
Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by
feminine waterpower.
Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the
Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds
of either"
Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody
believes he got the biggest piece.
Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.
Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
Father: A banker provided by nature.
Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got
caught.
Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are
early.
Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your
Confidence after.
Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.
Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you
actually do.
Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to
decide that nothing can be done together.
Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of
when dead. ▲ Collapse
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Cristina Popescu (X) 
Rumeenia
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Thank you, Ritu!
I especially liked the definition of "marriage" and "dictionary" .
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Hester Eymers
Madalmaad
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Nice distraction from a tedious job!
Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
I did study philosophy, but am glad I didn't become one...
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Thanks Ritu. Truly interesting. Gave me a nice break from work.
My favorite was the definition on "experience" and "yawn."
KP
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| Thank you... | Mar 30, 2007 |
... Ritu, that was fun. And as Hester says, a pleasant diversion on a very busy Friday afternoon before Easter holiday week!
I liked the dictionary definition, since I work a lot with them, and strive for success in the midst of too much work!
I have another which was not on your list:
A committee
A group of people who keep minutes and waste hours!
Happy Easter,
Bill
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Why is it the father who's the banker? In my experience, children fleece both parents!!!
Tina
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Cristina Popa wrote:
Thank you, Ritu!
I especially liked the definition of "marriage" and "dictionary" .
Another definition of Marriage:
An institution that gives you someone to share the troubles you wouldn't have had if you hadn't married him.
(or her, I suppose I should add!)
Regards,
Jenny.
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Tina Colquhoun wrote:
Why is it the father who's the banker? In my experience, children fleece both parents!!!
Tina
And not only sons play!!
School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.
[Edited at 2007-03-30 12:31]
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Ritu Bhanot
Prantsusmaa
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TOPIC STARTER | Glad you enjoyed it | Mar 30, 2007 |
Tina Colquhoun wrote:
Why is it the father who's the banker? In my experience, children fleece both parents!!!
Tina
Well, I'm not the right person to ask ('coz I didn't find these definitions)... well, in countries like India usually father used to be the only earning member so...
In fact, I was thinking about the definition of Life Insurance... it is so true.
And I love Dictionary... (wish it was called life)
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Melzie
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Thoses are great. here's one more
Banker: someone who lends you an umbrella when it's sunny and takes it back when it rains
[Edited at 2007-03-30 16:07]
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megane_wang
Hispaania
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| Thanks, Ritu! | Mar 30, 2007 |
Thanks for this piece of fun.
I love that "Conference Room" definition !!!
Ruth @ MW
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Hipyan Nopri
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| Really Refreshing | Mar 30, 2007 |
Ritu Bhanot wrote:
Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.
Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the
Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds
of either"
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.
Father: A banker provided by nature.
Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got
caught.
Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are
early.
Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your
Confidence after.
Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to
decide that nothing can be done together.
Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
Hi Ritu,
Really refreshing. Apart from being jokes they also serve to mock the real cultural conditions. Your country is not so much different from mine.:)
P.S.: You look much slimmer than before. What is the secret?
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Özden Arıkan
Saksamaa
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Thanks, Ritu!
Several ones are truly great, but I loved the definition of smile:
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Now, got to catch an occasion to use it
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Ritu Bhanot
Prantsusmaa
prantsuse - hindi
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TOPIC STARTER | Simple answer | Mar 30, 2007 |
Hipyan Nopri wrote:
Hi Ritu,
Really refreshing. Apart from being jokes they also serve to mock the real cultural conditions. Your country is not so much different from mine.:)
P.S.: You look much slimmer than before. What is the secret?
Elementary, my dear Hipyan
It's a photographer's trick.
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Ritu Bhanot
Prantsusmaa
prantsuse - hindi
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TOPIC STARTER | Happy Easter William | Mar 30, 2007 |
William [Bill] Gray wrote:
A committee
A group of people who keep minutes and waste hours!
Happy Easter,
Bill
I like this definition too
*It's true...
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