Bereft: afloat in a sideless flat-bottomed boat.

Define: afloat

afloat: anagram of AFL TAO: which means that as in the toilet the biggest turds rise to the top.


define: fatuous

Fatuous, the comment that led Mr Ous to create the eponymous diet.

Define slimming.

slimming: to emulate Mr Whitman without being a la castrati


define: castrati

Castrati: the layers in a member of "The Mamas & The Papas

Define tenuous

The step before someone gets tenure.

Define: step

Step: a road that climbs at such a rate that you can't fit all the letters in.

Define abseil

abseil: a bit like windsurfing but down the side of a cliff.*

Not Cliff Richards though.

Define: Cliff Richards

Cliff Richards - The kind of music that would make you want to jump off a cliff...

(Gets fixed with murderous stares by a thousand Cliff fans)

(starts singing Summer Holiday in the style of death metal, by way of apology)

Define - muzak

Muzak - Irritating buzzing sound that provokes, by way of reflex, a wild swaying of the arms and a slapping of the hands or movements as if handling a flyswatter. Rhymes to Wozzeck. The diminutive is muzakito.

Define: flyswatter.

Name of airline dealing with infernos


Define Flammable

Flammable - A flamm who can, as opposed to flammunable, who can't.

Define - unable

Unable - any game played with only one ball, as opposed to multiple games like smooker and billiards

Define Billiards...

Billiards - the back of very rich peoples houses.

Define - moolah

Moolah: the noise made by a French cow.

Define cow

Cow: That which one should not have, man.

Define: Shibboleth

Shibboleth - An arcane religious ceremony, performed only at the rising of the half-sunk moon, involving jive dancing, caramel milkshakes, and hammered dulcimers...

Define - arcane

Arcane... the angel responsible for all things sweet in days of yore.


Define yore

yore: ancient tribal chief who was famed until the coming of religion as knowing who, what, where, why and how.


As liberally minder empiricist who was gaining an understanding of the universe he was suppressed by the religious who felt everything should be made mysterious and torturous for their benefit.


define: cynical bastard

Cynical bastard: an optimist who has seen the error of his ways

Define error