The Meaning of Liff
I present to you, Douglas Adams' The Meaning of Liff
Within this document you will find words such as:
BODMIN (n.)
The irrational and inevitable discrepancy between the amount pooled and the amount needed when a large group of people try to pay a bill together after a meal.
KETTERING (n.)
The marks left on your bottom or thighs after sunbathing on a wickerwork chair.
TOTTERIDGE (n.)
The ridiculous two-inch hunch that people adopt when arriving late for the theatre in the vain and futile hope that it will minimise either the embarrassment of the lack of visibility for the rest of the audience. c.f. hickling.
IPING (participial vb.)
The increasingly anxious shifting from leg to leg you go through when you are desperate to go to the lavatory and the person you are talking to keeps on remembering a few final things he want to mention.
Oh I've been laughing at this. And it's not just a lybster!


