The Meaning of Liff
Frolesworth (noun): Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you're a complete moron.
Kirby (noun): Small but repulsive piece of food prominently attached to a person's face or clothing.
Fiunary (noun): The safe place you put something and forget where it was.
Plymouth (verb): To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place.
Shoeburyness (noun): The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that is still warm from somebody else's bottom.
Dorchester (noun): Someone else's throaty cough which obscures the crucial part of the rather amusing remark you've just made.
Pelutho (noun): A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.
(D.Adams, J.Lloyd "The Meaning of Liff" -- mans šodienas atklājums)
Kirby (noun): Small but repulsive piece of food prominently attached to a person's face or clothing.
Fiunary (noun): The safe place you put something and forget where it was.
Plymouth (verb): To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place.
Shoeburyness (noun): The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that is still warm from somebody else's bottom.
Dorchester (noun): Someone else's throaty cough which obscures the crucial part of the rather amusing remark you've just made.
Pelutho (noun): A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.
(D.Adams, J.Lloyd "The Meaning of Liff" -- mans šodienas atklājums)