REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.