The Dictionary - H
H-Hour
- When it's is scheduled to hit the fan.
Hacksaw
- One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
Hairdresser
- Someone who is able to create a style you will never be able to duplicate again.
Hallelujah
- It's not mine!
Hammer
- Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive car parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.
Hamper
- A wicker container with a lid, usually surrounded by, but not containing, dirty clothing.
Hamster
- An analog engine.
Handicap
- A ready-to-use hat.
Handi-Wipes
- Pants, shirt-sleeves, drapes, etc.
Handkerchief
- Cold Storage.
Hand Scanner
- Singles bar prowler looking for wedding rings.
Handicap
- A ready-to-use hat.
Hands
- Body appendages which must be scrubbed raw with volcanic soap and sterilized in boiling water immediately prior to consumption of the evening meal.
Hanging
- A suspended sentence.
Hangnail
- Coat hook.
Hangover
- The wrath of grapes.
Hanlon's Razor
- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. See Finagle's Law
Happily Married Couple
- Husband out with another man's wife.
Happiness
- The agreeable sensation of contemplating the misery of others.
Happy Meal
- Supping on the product of an assembly line while a clown tests his blood sugar.
Hard Drive
- The sales technique employed by computer salesmen, especially after a Syntax Error.
Hardware
- Collective term for any computer-related object that can be kicked or battered.
Hardware Store
- Similar to a black hole in space -- if he goes in, he isn't coming out any time soon.
Hari-Kari
- Transporting a wig.
Harquebus
- An early portable gun used by 16th century postal workers.
Harrison's Postulate
- For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Harrow
- To cause stress.
- A greeting in North Korea.
Has Beans
- Used coffee grounds.
Hearsay
- What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.
Heat
- The waste product of the universe.
Hebort
- To forget all the Hebrew one ever learned immediately after one's Bar Mitzvah.
Hebrute
- Israeli aftershave.
Heck
- Where people go when they don't believe in gosh.
Heidi
- Greeting.
Help
- The feature that assists in generating more questions. When the help feature is used correctly, users are able to navigate through a series of Help screens and end up where they started from without learning anything.
Hemaglobe
- The bloody state of the world.
Hemorrhoid
- A male from outer space.
Henpecked Husband
- One who is afraid to tell his pregnant wife that he is sterile.
Herbert
- The middle name of Jesus H. Christ.
Herbivore
- Dinner
Hereditary
- If your parents can't have children, neither can you. Celibacy is not an inherited characteristic.
Hermaphrodite
- A guy/girl who really can go fuck them self.
Hide and Sick
- A game played on any ocean liner by the passengers.
High Concept
- Low brow.
High Dome
- Egghead, scientist, Ph.D.
High Society
- A group of high-class horse's asses.
Hindsight
- What Mom experiences from changing too many diapers.
Hipatitis
- Terminal coolness.
Hire Yew
- (Southern) Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.
Usage: "Heidi. Hire yew."
Ho-Hump
- Really bad sex.
Hoare's Law of Large Problems
- Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
Hockey
- The National Dental Plan of Canada
- The favorite sport of organ donors, and dentists.
Holy Water
- A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY.
Homage
- French for "stealing".
Home Cooking
- The place many a man thinks his wife is.
Homemade Bread
- An object of fiction like the Fountain of Youth and the Golden Fleece.
Homo Sapien
- A species with a God complex.
Homosexual
- A man's man.
Honey
- Bee vomit.
Hong Kong
- China Lite
Hook
- A curved piece of metal used to catch fish.
- A clever advertisement to entice a fisherman to spend his live savings on a new rod and reel.
- The punch administered by said fisherman's wife after he spends their life savings (see also, Right Hook, Left Hook).
Hooker
- A working woman commonly despised by people who sell themselves for even less.
Horizon
- A call girl hopping out of bed.
Horticulture
- The study of prostitutes.
Hospitality
- Making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.
Hour Glassing
- Waiting for your computer to finish a task.
Houseplants
- Vegetable companions; pleasant green pets that rarely bite or throw up on the carpet.
HR
- Hardly Relevant.
Huh?
- The first word a convenience store worker learns. Conversations goes something like this.
YOU: I'd like change for a dollar.
HIM: Huh?
It rarely gets past this.
- Counter-Intelligence.
Human
- A complex mechanism used to convert coffee into urine.
- A species in complete conflict with itself. The fat want to be thin. The thin want to be fat. The light-skinned want to be dark. The dark-skinned want to light.
Human Resources
- The layoff People.
Humor
- A feat, after the invention of language, which is man's proudest achievement.
Hungarian
- A very well-endowed man from Gary, Indiana.
Hunger
- What the posse did to the lady rustler.
Hybrid Car
- Latin for "gutless wonder".
Hydraulic Floor Jack
- Used for lowering a Mustang to the ground after you have installed a set of Ford Motorsports lowered road springs, trapping the jack handle firmly under the front air dam.
Hydroponic Gardening
- Using a plant to convert water into yard work.
Hymn
- A song of praise, usually sung in a key three octaves higher than that of the congregation's range.
Hypochondriac
- A guy who won't let well enough alone.