A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.