Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.