14 9 / 2011
"Droitwich (n.)
A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other’s way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologise, step to the left again, apologise again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary."
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13 9 / 2011
"Didling (participial vb.)
The process of trying to work out who did it when reading a whodunnit, and trying to keep your options open so that when you find out you can allow yourself to think that you knew perfectly well who it was all along."
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13 9 / 2011
"Chicago (n.)
The foul-smelling wind which precedes an underground railway train."
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13 9 / 2011
"Bodmin (n.)
The irrational and inevitable discrepancy between the amount pooled and the amount needed when a large group of people try to pay a bill together after a meal."
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21 3 / 2011
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands."
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21 3 / 2011
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
