i love my devi’s dictionary which Ambrose Bierce wrote back in 1881. i know that’s a fricken long time ago! and it’s still cool! amazing! exclamation mark!
so if you’ve been off smoking mandrax with a toothless hooker in a crack den in mannenberg and you missed the previous posts, we’re already onto the ‘g’s’. an oddly apt letter considering halloween is coming up – all the ghouls and ghosts.
Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven.
Geographer, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
Ghost, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
Ghoul, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead.
Gnu, n. An animal which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thuderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
Grave, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
short and sweet, the ‘g’s’. or rather, gort and gweet.
Brilliant stuff!