Noise: a stench in the ear.
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.