The Dag’s Dictionary by Richard Glover
October 24th, 2009
Excerpt from The Dag’s Dictionary by Richard Glover, published by ABC Books 2004:
Damn!nesia (damn nee’ zee ah) n.
An affliction by which you walk purposefully from one end of the building to the other, but forget mid-trip where you were going.
I suffer from this constantly.
JimmyD’s staff always get a laugh out of this book. We have a copy in stock right now for $11. But be warned: this book never sticks around very long!
I also like this one:
Liebry (ly’ bree) n.
A pile of unread but fashionable books placed on a coffee table in order to impress visitors.
L’Yan
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One of my favourites is “XL-ation” — the grunting noise a fat man makes when he bends over to pick something up. Ha ha!
A very entertaining book, this one. When someone in my family received it for Christmas I gleefully read out the definitions of new dagwords for days. Brilliant.