Alternative English Dictionary

Shopping

Richard — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:17:00 +0000

Verb. The English national sport.

Fishing

Richard — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:15:00 +0000

Verb. A pastime in which a person will spend hours in freezing cold and blinding rain in an often fruitless attempt to outwit a fish, when dead fish are readily available in nearby shops at a fraction of the cost of the fishing equipment. Coarse Fishing: Swearing at being outwitted by the fish.

Politician

Richard — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:04:00 +0000

Noun. Liar.

Probation

Richard — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:46:00 +0000

Noun. To randomly select criminals and release them into the community. This helps ensure full use is made of police and judicial resources, enabling them to repeat the process of detection, arrest and trial. Although police and judicial resources are sometimes, or quite often overstretched, none of these resources are ever left idle.