ADVICE A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your
mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous as
the one thing which it is "More blessed to give than receive."
GOOD ADVICE Something old men give young men when they can no
longer give them a bad example.
AFTERTHOUGHT A tardy sense of prudence that prompts one to try to
shut their mouth about the time they've put their foot in it.
ALCOHOL A liquid good for preserving almost everything except
secrets.
AUGUR One who bored the ancients with prophecies.
BARGAIN A disease common to women, caught in the Sunday papers and
developed in department Stores on Mondays. Symptoms, loud talk,
pushing and shoving, a combination prize-fight and football
scrimmage. (Old spelling 'Bark-gain).
BLUSH A temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the
physiognomy, aeteologized by the perceptiveness of the sensorium,
in a predicament of inequilibrity, from a sense of shame, anger or
other cause, eventuating in a paresis of the vase-motorial,
muscular filaments of the facial capillaries, whereby, being
divested of their elasticity, they become suffused with a radiance
emanating from an intimidated praecordia.
CHRISTMAS A widely observed holiday on which the past nor the
future is of so much interest as the present.
A simple riddle.
A toy for the children found in books, blocks, pictures
and vermicelli soup. Contains 26 letters and only three syllables.
What am I
MCC
