It's clear: today, idiots are everywhere. So James Napoli, esteemed director of the National Sarcasm Society, has created a smart-aleck dictionary that defines pop-culture touchstones and throws shade on the hopelessly foolish.
Author: James Napoli
Publisher: Official Dictionary
ISBN: 1454927801
Category: Humor
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It's clear: today, idiots are everywhere. So James Napoli, esteemed director of the National Sarcasm Society, has created a smart-aleck dictionary that defines pop-culture touchstones and throws shade on the hopelessly foolish. With copiously illustrated snarky entries on everything from "Alternative Facts" and "Congress" to "Cable News" and "Uber," The Official Dictionary of Idiocy brings much-needed laughter to these crazy days.
Official Contact Pages: The Music Industry Dictionary. Atlanta: Bullet Entertainment Group, 2006. Hitchcock, H. Wiley, and Stanley Sadie, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. (4 vols.) New York: Oxford University Press 2002) ...
Author: Dr. Stanford Felix
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101198094
Category: Music
Page: 203
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A musician's vocabulary needs more than Do, Re, Mi... Written in clear, concise, easy-to-understand language, The Complete Idiot's Guide® Music Dictionary covers a multitude of musical aspects indispensable to any musician. Author and music professor Stanford Felix has compiled the most commonly found terms and explains them in a way that even the most novice musician can comprehend. ?The only dictionary geared toward the beginner musician ?Gives clear, concise definitions of terms, theories, and instruments, as well as important works, musicians, and composers
This is my not-so-official dictionary definition for gamesmanship. The real definition is: “The art of winning games by using various ploys and tactics to gain a psychological advantage”. So still basically being a massive twat.
Author: Yann Somou
Publisher: Yann Somou
ISBN:
Category: Humor
Page: 256
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Do you think the world is going to shit? And that manners are being thrown out the window? And that common sense and common courtesy are becoming uncommon? And that you are now dealing with idiots that bit too often? You are not alone. We are all collectively treating each other worse than ever before. We talk to each other like dickheads. We drive like wankers. We leave piss on the toilet seat. We shake hands as if they’ve turned into floppy fish. We treat money as the be-all and end-all. Yann thinks this is down to us slowly losing touch with our own humanity. In other words, we care more about ourselves than the person next to us. Sure, capitalism and technology are partly to blame. But at the end of the day, if we don’t start treating each other a little better, we’re all truly fucked. There’s no way in hell we’ll be able to work together long enough to resolve the catastrophic problems coming our way. To that end, ‘don’t be stupid, idiot’ is chock full of 120+ hilarious, sweary, sarcastic, hard-hitting rants about everyday things that everyday idiots do, with quasi-serious, tongue in cheek exercises to help idiots be less idiotic. Each rant also has a QR code or link to share with that idiot of a friend who needs to read it! Rants include: Queue cutting Cancel culture Buying rounds Splitting the bill Holding the door open Ignoring reserved seating Treating pets as humans Tailgating Reclining plane seats Taking the mick Conspiracy theorists & many more! No one is innocent of being an idiot, including you. It is impossible to read this book and not realise at least one or two ways in which you’ve started to not give a shit about your fellow human. Yann hopes that, instead of being a little bitch about it, you’ll use all the reality checks you’ll receive to become a better person who is more aware of how their actions affect others. Entertainment: Guaranteed Fucks Given: Zero Legitimate Reviews “Brilliant!! But it can’t go on our best seller’s list because most of our readers are idiots” – Some shit newspaper “Bought for my idiot friend. Was a prick, still is but at least he knows it now!!” – An idiot “The perfect stupid gift for my boyfriend/husband/dad/brother!! They can be a right wanker!” – Wanker-loving idiot Get the book now, you muppet. Yann doesn’t care whether you buy it as a Secret Santa piss-take for colleagues, a really stupid gift for Christmas, a birthday present for people you don't like, for bloody Mother’s and Father’s day, or just because you like books taking the mick. Just buy the thing and start your journey towards being less of a prick. Still don’t know if ‘don’t be stupid, idiot’ is for you? If you enjoyed Mark Manson’s, ‘The subtle art of not giving a f*ck’, Laura Clery’s, ‘Idiots’, Thomas Erikson’s, ‘Surrounded by idiots’ or Karl Pilkington’s, ‘An idiot abroad’, you’ll love this! You’ll also feel right at home if you relate to the logic and pull no punches style of outspoken people like Ricky Gervais, Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan and James Haskell.
You don't need one to do your astrological birth chart; it's just a good place to look for the information you need. If you want a notarized, official copy of your birth certificate, and you know where you were born, ...
Author: Arlene Tognetti
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101441176
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Page: 416
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From Astrology to the Zodiac... The Complete Idiot's Guide® Astrology Dictionary gives readers over 1,500 entries on everything about astrology from A to Z, including everything they need to know to read their chart and make interpretations. ?Organized in two sections for quick and easy reference, providing readers with the meaning of the term or topic, then interpretations that can be applied for readers to learn more about themselves or others ?Tognetti is also the lead author of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Astrology, Fourth Edition, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Tarot, Second Edition, and The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Tarot Spreads.
Discover the Meaning of Over 1,500 Dream Symbols Dream Genie, Eve Adamson. gold suggests that person, ... To dream of being handed a diploma during graduation symbolizes an official move upward in your career or status. 3.
Author: Dream Genie
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 9780241885987
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Page: 319
View: 258
15,000 entries from abduction to zebra. Everybody dreams, and now there's a dream dictionary for everyone! With 15,000 entries, this reference showcases the most up-to-date vocabulary of dream symbols, such as cell phones. It also includes a dream thesaurus with handy list collections of entries by topic; a dream quiz that affers revealing insights into your dream personality; a section called, 'Tuck-in Time', which provides terrific strategies for inviting, inducing, and remembering dreams; and a dream interpretation checklist, helping readers interpret their dreams step-by-step. - Popular reference dictionary format - Focuses on symbols, meanings, and interpretations
twentiethcentury representations can be seen to further complicate a straightforward understanding of the term.15 On the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin's model, this methodology rejects a 'monologic' model where official categories ...
Author: Martin Halliwell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351928847
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 280
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This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Rohinton Mistry, and filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog and John Huston have all been attracted to idiot figures as a way of thinking through issues of language acquisition, intelligence, creativity, disability, religion and social identity. Martin Halliwell provides a lively and detailed discussion of the most significant literary and cinematic uses of idiocy, arguing that scientific conceptions of the term as a classifiable medical condition are much too narrow. With the explosion of interest in idiocy among American and European filmmakers in the 1990s and the growing interest in its often overlooked history, this book offers a timely reassessment of idiocy and its distinctive place at the intersection of science and culture.
This volume provides a light-hearted guide for the perplexed to all things trivial. Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. As human progress depends on the continuing practice of stupidity, Stephen Bayley investigates in this book what is necessary for human progress. Some instances of stupidity are only clearly stupid after the fact such as the astonishing amount of money poured into Internet start-ups, others rely on ideas which are stupid on their own. The Ship of Follies of the World in 1509, even the perplexed will find their way through the maze of progress and common sense. An original miscellany for those who want their trivia served up with panache. The inspiration for this collection comes from Flaubert's Dictionnaire des Idees Recues, published for the first time in October 1904.
[ Gr . idrikóv ( idiotikon ) , neut . of i8TIKós ( idiōtikos ) = belonging to a private man . ] ... as contradistinguished from one occupying an official position , it being presumed that the highest intellect and edu- cation - nay ...
( Gr . i8wrikó ( idiotikon ) , neut , of iSIWT KÓS ( idiotikos ) = belonging to a private man . ) A dictionary confined to a particular dialect , or to the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country .
Looking in the Oxford English Dictionary, we find that the first sense of “idiocy” has to do with status and is one no longer in use, having fallen out of circulation by the nineteenth century. This signification involves social status: ...
Author: Alice Hall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351699679
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 396
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider context of activism and theory. It introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches in which disability is understood in relation to gender, race, class, sexuality, nationality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre, this is an important resource for those interested in exploring and deepening their knowledge of the field of literature and disability studies.