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• Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
• CONVERSATION: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
• Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
• The best teacher is one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
  -- Edward Bulwe...
• Trapezoid (n): A device for catching zoids.
• bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
  Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
• EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order.
  The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other -- which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in the pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of a dog....