Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.