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From The Devil’s Dictionary:

IDIOT, n.
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but “pervades and regulates the whole.” He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

And, because I want to, I’ll add a few more Words of the Day (or “WotDs”):

INFIDEL, n.
In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

IMPENITENCE,n.
A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

IMPIETY, n.
Your irreverence toward my deity.

IN’ARDS, n.
The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in’ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man’s soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.

Fun!

Stay far away from SuDoku. It’s a Japanese number puzzle. You’re given a board like this one:

And you have to fill in the blanks. Each row, column, and marked 3×3 square must contain the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

It sounds really simple. And it is, for the first few squares.

It’s the last few squares that bite you, and then you have to go back and change things, or start over.

Why should you stay away? Because this will eat your time. I picked up one of these today, and it took me over two hours to finish.

Actually, if I had to do another one, it’d probably be a lot easier. The trick to this game comes in the extended entry.