Unpaid sex worker: wife
Sexual service provider: paid sex worker, hooker
Death tax: inheritance tax
Duty-not-paid importing: smuggling
Cosmetically saturated: wearing too much makeup
Fragrance abuse: wearing too much perfume
Olfactory assault: wearing any perfume at all
Nondiscretionary fragrance: body odor
Robust peacekeeping: killing troublesome locals
Coercive pregnancy: turned down for a late abortion
Mandatory motherhood: turned down for a late abortion
Pregnancy-related services: abortion
Product of conception: baby
Evacuate cranial contents: suck the baby's brains out
Action figures: dolls for boys
Nuclear transplantation: cloning
Smoothers: girdles
Spouse equivalent: lover
Polyamory: wild promiscuity
Person-centered sexuality with permissive affection: anything goes
Nontraditional sex: perversions
Comprehensive sex education: sex-ed classes stressing the things your parents hope you will never do
Hemp activist: pot promoter
Problem-plagued: drug-addled
Post-verdict response: riot
Uprising: a riot you approve of
Granted "access" to my body (Boston clerical term): had sex with a young male
Occupant restraints: seat belts
Poorly buffered precipitation: acid rain
Race-sensitive programs: preferences, quotas
Faith-based organizations: religious organizations
Deer management: shooting all the deer
Activity intolerance: lower back pain
Economic profiling: getting turned down for a loan because of a poor credit rating
Made possible by: We don't take advertising, but here comes an ad anyway
Relationship manager: salesperson
Persistency specialist: bill collector
Tactical pricing: panicky price cuts
Intercommunal coexistence (from a program at Brandeis): getting along
Mainstreaming (journalese): quoting one member of every race, gender, orientation and ethnic group in all news reports, even ones about ailing turtles, bad weather or Martha Stewart
Lifestyle and fitness competition: Miss America's swimsuit competition
The (nongendered) monarchy, the power and the glory: the (patriarchal) kingdom, the power and the glory
Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer: Father, Son, Holy Spirit
Involuntary normal attrition: laying off workers
Managing down: laying off workers
Rightsizing: laying off workers
Job survivor: person not yet rightsized, attrited or managed down
John Leo
John Leo is editor of MindingTheCampus.com and a former contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report.
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