# Quote — Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

> SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom

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> WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

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> AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.

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> FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.

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