Vocabulary
In keeping with the tenets of Celtic Bushido, I am compelled to drag the Flock, kicking and screaming, into cynical literacy. With that in mind, it's time for another installment of the Devil's Dictionary...

ACADEME, n.
An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.

ACADEMY, n.
[from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.

BACCHUS, n.
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.


BAROMETER, n.
An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

COWARD, n.
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

DARING, n.
One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security.

HISTORY, n.
An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

KILT, n.
A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

NIRVANA, n.
In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

QUOTATION, n.
The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

SAINT, n.
A dead sinner revised and edited.

In other news, Hero Machine is a big hit with our little family. Big Gay Jim even forked out the $19.95 for the full version. Clearly you get what you pay for, as demonstrated by this life-like rendition of the Dark Pontif...

"Creepy. It's like looking in a comic book mirror. I hope Sal doesn't poop on my good black shirt..."