• Accountant - someone hired to explain that you didn't make the money that you did
  • Claustrophobia -being frightened of Santa
  • Cuberty - the stage reached by teens when their parents seem square
  • Dilate - to live as long as the Queen Mother did
  • Dreadlocks - a fear of opening the door
  • Gossip - someone with a great sense of rumour
  • Heck - where the people go who don't believe in Gosh
  • Irritainment - new description for senseless television programmes
  • Lame Duck - a person whose goose is cooked
  • Meanness - a box containing two batteries and  note saying "Gift not included'
  • Modesty - a man who has caught a really huge fish carrying it home through a back road
  • Punctuality- the art of guessing how late others will be
  • Synonym - a word you use when you cant spell the one you want to use
  • Voice jail - the communication nightmare created by automated phone systems
from Max Cryer "Curious Thoughts" 2002, as heard on National Radio