InDefinition - 14

leatherette, n. pl. collective term for sex-club members: a leatherette of dominatrices.

The smaller picture

Every life is many days, day after day...

- Joyce, Ulysses

This is a day - same as any other

- Smyth

Not seen on a T-shirt

Finnegans Wake!

(Because Ulysses is for girls.)

Indefinition - 13

conquistadore, v. to get a girl you fancy into bed (negotiations may feature ambiguous statements implying exchange of gold)

Big up the British

Satire is what we, the British, have always done better than anybody. From Chaucer, Swift and Alexander Pope to Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye, Four Lions), savage and comic lampoons of the age’s ignorance, delusions and cruelties have been as much a part of what this nation is as poetry, cathedrals and binge drinking.

- Bryan Appleyard, 'On Satire'

Words heard

You know the really crappy coffee shop at Auschwitz?

- rich stupid girl, Chandos pub.

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Similes are metaphorical; but are metaphors like similes?

Only in English - 3

can cool people be hot, and vice versa.

Forlorn hope

I'm desperate for a cold beer and a nice shallow conversation I don't have to read anything into.

- Cecil P Taylor, Good

On the need for a rhetorical-question mark

'Didn't they have terrible times,' she asked me (and there was no question mark). 'Yes,' I said. 'Didn't they.'

- Martin Amis, Koba the Dread

(Though note that a rhetorical question, curiously, is still 'asked'.)

Taciturnity/Economy

One of those dreadful books I had downloaded had mentioned that cowboys talk little and say much...

- Bryan Appleyard, 'The Magnificent One'

Like poets. Unlike hairdressers.

The potential of lost art

I just need a camera!

- DS Hilton, professional photographer

Sweet dreams

The sort of decisions we need to sleep on are rarely those which allow for much sleep.

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You can earn money from internet.you need to learn soemthing [sic.]

Basic spelling and syntax, for example.

ES headline

Londoners Defy Tube Strike

By driving the tubes themselves?

No.