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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicJokes & Riddles · 1 decade ago

Oxford Dictionary's latest definition of the following?

:

* Divorce : Future tense of marriage.

* Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end

& a fool on the other.

* Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of

the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through

\"the

minds of either\"

* Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number

present.

* Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody

believes he got the biggest Piece.

* Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is

defeated by feminine water power.

* Dictionary : A place where success comes before work.

* Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens

and everybody disagrees later on.

* Classic : A book which people praise, but do not read.

* Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

* Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home

life.

* Yawn : The only time some married men ever get to open their

mouth

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Thanks........you've brightened my day..

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    This is not accordance with fact that filipina are prostitute. As matter of fact, 2 Filipina was a President in the the Republic of the Philippines and this present filipina is a Supreme Court Chief Justice of the country.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I wonder who created the first dictionary... because that person must be very bored....

  • 1 decade ago

    haha these are hilarious.

    i like the YAWN one!

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  • 1 decade ago

    LOLOLOL now that was funny

    *STAR 4 U

  • 1 decade ago

    lol, funny...but sad, as some of it is way too true.

  • 1 decade ago

    haha, real definition

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