Archive - Jan 2009 - Devils Dictionary

Where ostensibly straight black men have sex with men. This greatly lessens prison as a deterrent effect, as sentencing a black man to prison is like sentencing a paedophile to Thailand or Cambodia.

A means to stimulate lobbying for the right political connections to get to the front of the queue for the next round of stimulus spending.

A theoretical perfect society. While many varieties of utopia have been proposed, the distinguishing feature shared by all is the propensity of the theorist to intend this perfect society to house everyone but himself, while he lives in a shed outside.

A hatred of the upper class motivated by not having being born into it.

Sort of like university, except that the lessons learned within generally have more practical and profitable applications in one's later career. Also women are invariably more attracted to graduates of this institution over university.

On a woman, to advertise the fact that she is always sexually available to you, even if you are poor and lack either social standing or much in the way of future prospects to improve yourself.

On a man, to advertise the fact that he is open to gay advances, particularly of the rough sort, and he won't cry when he's pack raped while pinned down to a cold concrete floor.

While a woman will give you the usual tedious reasons for her international backpacking, such as wanting to broaden her horizons by experiencing new cultures, the real reason is always so then she can act like a slut without picking up a reputation as she would in her home town where she is known, and memories are long.

A film much beloved by women as it affirms their hope that being a cheap, dirty slut will not result in rich alpha-males failing to perceive their inner beauty.

Now agreed by any sensible economist to result in poor quality goods at excessive prices. While it is increasingly difficult to find illustrative examples of this in manufacturing these days, they are bountiful amongst public school teachers.

Where a monarchy is overthrown to become a republic, which then expands its electorate to become a democracy, until the majority learn that they can soak the productive minority, leading to total economic collapse, from which a tyranny of the strong leader emerges, who then hands it onto his firstborn son as a monarchy.