ALLEGIANCE, N.
This Thing Allegiance, As I Suppose,
Is A Ring Fitted In The Subject's Nose,
Whereby That Organ Is Kept Rightly Pointed
To Smell The Sweetness Of The Lord's Anointed.
This thing Allegiance, as I suppose,
Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose,
Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed
To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed.
G.J.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles,
but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous
peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in
preparing it....
