Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you've a complete moron.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
FARNHAM (n.)
The feeling you get about four o'clock in the afternoon when you haven't got enough done.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
DUNGENESS (n.)
The uneasy feeling that the plastic handles of the overloaded supermarket carrier bag you are carrying are getting steadily longer.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
DIDLING (participial vb.)
The process of trying to work out who did it when reading a whodunnit, and trying to keep your options open so that when you find out you can allow yourself to think that you knew perfectly well who it was all along.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
DAMNAGLAUR (n.)
A certain facial expression which actors are required to demonstrate their mastery of before they are allowed to play MacBeth.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
CRANLEIGH (n.)
A mood of irrational irritation with everyone and everything.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
BOTCHERBY
The principle by which British roads are signposted.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
BANFF
Pertaining to, or descriptive of, that kind of facial expression which is impossible to achieve except when having a passport photograph taken.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
BABWORTH
Something which justifies having a really good cry.
Elena Radovskayahas quoted4 years ago
AMERSHAM (n.)
The sneeze which tickles but never comes. (Thought to derive from the Metropolitan Line tube station of the same name where the rails always rattle but the train never arrives.)