True story: Decades ago, I looked up “sex” in the dictionary. It was short for “sexual intercourse,” whose definition was “fornication.” That word was defined as “coitus,” and the definition for that was “See sexual intercourse.”
If any of you old geezers out there remember the old software program “Norton Utilities” for PCs, the instruction manual had these entries in the index:
Delenn: Ivanova sent me to find you. She said you haven’t been sleeping, you have hardly been eating; she said that you have been, in her words, “carrying on cranky.” I looked up the word “cranky.” It said “grouchy.” I looked up “grouchy,” it said “crotchety.” No wonder you have such an eccentric culture: none of your words have their own meaning! You have to look up one word to understand another. It never ends.
BasilBruce over 2 years ago
True story: Decades ago, I looked up “sex” in the dictionary. It was short for “sexual intercourse,” whose definition was “fornication.” That word was defined as “coitus,” and the definition for that was “See sexual intercourse.”
This was in Virginia.
Technicholls over 2 years ago
I can actually relate to this one. It really does happen. ఠ_ఠ
donwestonmysteries over 2 years ago
Try ignorant.
brklnbern over 2 years ago
Must be some words he knows, or else he’ll never understand anything.
robtgordon over 2 years ago
If any of you old geezers out there remember the old software program “Norton Utilities” for PCs, the instruction manual had these entries in the index:
Endless….see LoopLoop……..see Endless
Peter Norton had a sense of humor.
billyk75 over 2 years ago
Look up redundant.
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 2 years ago
From Babylon 5…
Delenn: Ivanova sent me to find you. She said you haven’t been sleeping, you have hardly been eating; she said that you have been, in her words, “carrying on cranky.” I looked up the word “cranky.” It said “grouchy.” I looked up “grouchy,” it said “crotchety.” No wonder you have such an eccentric culture: none of your words have their own meaning! You have to look up one word to understand another. It never ends.