Since we’re in and about Halloween time, I thought it time for another post directly from The Devil’s Dictionary. A book written in the 1800’s by a man named Ambrose Bierce. He was one of those delicious bad asses that even mothers back in the 1800’s would have warned their daughters about. And that’s what…
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The devil's dictionary – R is for rogue
Brave client sent me this: ‘Grammar is important: Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.’ It’s a quote from someone with lots of smarts. Dunno who. But it reminded me that we haven’t chatted to Ambrose Bierce in a while. (Quick descriptor…
The devil's dictionary – 'P' PART TWO
We haven’t visited The Devil’s Dictionary in a while, so I thought it was time. A quick update for those of you who have been doing crystal meth with a B-Grade TV star in Hillbrow for the last year and don’t know about The Devil’s Dictionary. Ambrose Bierce was a writer who lived around the…
The devil's dictionary – 'P' PART ONE
‘P’ is for Poes. Well it is. I’m sorry, I know it’s crass, but that’s what ‘P’ is for. It’s also for ‘Poephol’, ‘Penis’, ‘Panties’ and ‘Paige’. See it’s a particularly dirty letter. For the last year or so here at A Million Miles from Normal (The blog is now a year old by the…
the devil's dictionary – 'O' is for oh oh oh
Today we’re talking about bad-asses from the 1800’s. There was Jack the Ripper, a serial killer who slit prostitute’s throats and then mutilated them. Charming. He was never caught, and they have no idea how many women he actually murdered, but the number is rumoured to be right up there in double digits. Then there’s…
devil's dictionary – 'N' is for naai
today it’s time for us to rejoin mr abrose bierce. a guy i used to shag back in the 1800’s. he wrote this book called The Devil’s Dictionary in 1842, which had every wench in town begging to give him a well-earned blow job. i picture him as the hank moody of the 19th century….
devil's dictionary – 'M' is for moer.
did you know that Ambrose Bierces‘ middle name was Gwinnett? oh yes. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. his parents must have been complete assholes. who does that to a child? i mean it’s no ‘Adolf Hitler’ but still it’s not great, is it? for those of you who have been off doing tik out of a broken…
devil's dictionary – 'L' is for lust
do you remember this guy? it’s been quite a while since we last chatted to him. well just in case you’ve been off smoking tik out of a lightbulb and then shoplifting at access park for the last couple of months, allow me to introduce you. please meet Ambrose Bierce. Back some time around 1842…
the devil's dictionary – 'K' is for…
if you’ve been driving around woodstock getting blowjobs from toothless hookers for the last couple of months, and you’ve therefore missed all the posts here about ambrose bierce and his devil’s dictionary (circa 1881), then please proceed directly to your nearest clinic and get tested for any number of venereal diseases. then once that’s sorted…
devil's dictionary – 'J' is for not much really
my favourite man from the 1800’s is ambrose bierce. partly because he wrote the devil’s dictionary, but mainly because i think he’s kind of hot and like i’ve said before, he really knows how to rock that mo. see, told you. so we’ve made as far as the jays.this is what my boyfriend, mr bierce,…