Monday, 7 April 2008

Evening scribbles...


Do you know that feeling of being so tired in the evening after a long day that all you can think of is either your lovely, warm, soft, dreamy pillow or totally silly things? Sometimes it seems I know it too well. So here goes:

1. One of my favourite counting-out rhymes:

One Tequila

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Two Tequila

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Three Tequila

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Floor


2. As a linguist (and a person who attended a lexicography seminar) I just adore the new and one of a kind definitions:

ADULT:

A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in

the middle.

BEAUTY PARLOR:

A place where women curl up and dye.

CANNIBAL:

Someone who is fed up with people.

CHICKENS:

The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

COMMITTEE:

A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST:

Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST:

Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

GOSSIP:

A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.

HANDKERCHIEF:

Cold Storage.

INFLATION:

Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MYTH:

A female moth.

MOSQUITO:

An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN:

Grape with a sunburn.

SECRET:

Something you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON:

A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE:

The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW:

One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

YAWN:

An honest opinion openly expressed.

WRINKLES:

Something other people have. You have character lines.

3. So far for now...don't worry, the silliness will continue...

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