We absolutely love B.C. Comics, written by Johnny Hart and Copyright © 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Mr. Hart puts a smile on one's face with his meanings of words and phrases. This page is dedicate to Mr. Hart's Wiley's Dictionary and Book of Phrases from B.C. Comics.

• a lasting impression
• what a sumo wrestler leaves in his mattress
• accordion
• an open and shut case
• agnostic
• a guy who, when you sneeze, shrugs and says "whatever"
• alimentary canal
• the part of the body that gives us food for thought
• artifacts
• things you don't know about "Arty"
• asunder
• the correct position for riding a donkey
• baby boomer
• a kid who just polished off six jars of strained beans
• band-aid
• a fundraiser for an orchestra
• big loser
• the winner of a diet contest
• bombsite
• the stage in a comedy club
• booby trap
• a brassiere
• borderline obese
• won't fit through the turnstile at the immigration booth
• bountiful
• what Captain Bligh declared after learning one more breadfruit tree would sink his ship
• breakneck speed
• the amount of time that elapses between a whiplash accident and the arrival of the first lawyer
• cable copter
• an aerial tracking device that provides 15 hours of fame to any crook trying to make a getaway in a white van
• catalyst
• a directory of the names of every cow in the herd
• cantaloupe
• when the ladder won't reach the window
• castanet
• your last recourse when you've run out of bait
• cell phone
• how amoebas communicate
• centaur
• a senator who has been horsing around
• Chinese checkers
• airport security at Peking
• chopsticks
• eating utensils for picky eaters
• clipboard
• directors of the Enron Corporation
• coat of arms
• what octopuses wear to formals
• conflict of interest
• a dental school with a hockey team
• conflict of interest
• when the undertaker is also your life insurance salesman
• coup d'etat
• the forcible takeover of a government by someone in a 2-door car
• cowboy
• a bull
• cremation
• an alternative choice for those who like to think outside the box
• cross buck
• a six-pointer that lost the scent of his mate
• curdle
• when a cuddle goes sour
• deadline
• what you're left holding when you call your girlfriend the day after her birthday
• decrease
• what de dry cleaners put in de pants
• defeat
• what you blame if you lose de soccer match
• deluge
• de reason de luge got cancelled
• dogmatic
• an automatic dog
• drag race
• a two-man event in which the victor receives a gift certicate to Victoria's Secret
• eating disorder
• drinking white wine with a hotdog
• eavesdrop
• what happens when you don't put your eaves up properly
• efficiency expert
• everybody
• escalator music
• elevator music for claustrophobes
• euthanasia
• not much for a youth in Asia to look forward to
• extinct
• a skunk that's lost its scent
• file clerk
• one skilled in the art of concealment
• firing squad
• the penultimate implementation of downsizing
• fireplace
• where a cord of wood meets its match
• fixed income
• one who thrives solely on political bribes
• fluid swing
• what golfers develop after 2 hours in the grill room
• freak accident
• a geek falling down a flight of stairs
• free agent
• the most flagrant oxymoron in sports
• free radical
• an ex-con who protests presidential pardons
• frigging
• the rigging on a frigate
• fruitcake
• the gift that keeps on giving
• fumigator
• a large, very angry reptile
• galeforce
• what Gale do to get her size 14 body into a size 10
• garden
• Papa Bear's job description
• generation gap
• when your high school uniform will no longer button
• get out of jail free
• about the only thing you can't do with a cell phone these days
• golf
• the one four-letter word least uttered during a round of it
• half-cocked
• a rooster that wakes you up at 2 a.m. instead of 4 a.m.
• hamster
• the animal least likely to be found in a synagogue
• harboring a criminal
• protecting someone who stole a boat
• hear-say
• basic job description for intrepreters
• hearse
• what a wacky undertaker has embroidered on his wife's towels
• hollyhock
• what Holly does to pay off her gambling debts
• hologram
• a cracker with no substance
• honkeydory
• a dinghy full of white guys
• hostel
• the way hotel owners act when you can't pay your bill
• hummer
• a car that can't sing
• ignoramus
• the best thing to do if Ramus shows up
• incongruous
• when you unexpectantly win a Senate seat
• infamy
• a word seldom used after Toyota sales topped 2 million
• innovation
• a round of applause for the innkeeper
• kindred
• the fear of visiting relatives
• laughing stock
• a herd of cows with ticklish teats
• lead pencil
• one of the legitimate imports from China
• left after
• what's left after you've eaten the leftovers
• lingerie
• the only clothing where less costs more
• livelihood
• a crook on Ritalin
• living on the edge
• Humpty Dumpty's last known address
• lunatic
• a bug that tries to get blood out of a moon rock
• masseuse
• a woman who gets paid to rub it in
• miracle drug
• one that costs less than 3 figures
• mis-spoke
• the title given to the winner of the female Tour De France
• mistress
• a seamstress who didn't miss as much as it seems
• money laundering
• the change you find in the bottom of your washing machine
• morose - NEW
• General Mills' new marketing strategy
• nightmare
• a racehorse who only wins if there's a total eclipse of the sun
• oratory
• the place where they stash all the canoe paddles
• pacifist
• substitute for a pacifier
• pasteurize
where your life goes when you have a near-death experience
• permanent
a temporary hairdo
• pesticide
when a cockroach does a swan dive into a garbage disposal
• placebo
a pill that has no side effects other than death
• poop deck
a naval term attributed to Noah
• precedent
when a president's son becomes president
• prenuptial agreement
a contract between suspicious lovers
• private
a soldier who has no privacy whatsoever
• private account
politically correct lingo for a piggy bank
• puddle jumper
• the owner of a new puppy
• pugilist
• a roster of prizefighters
• quandary
• when you lose your clothes at the laundry
• scandel
• a size C sandel
• science fiction
• any scientific acclaim that omits God
• separatist
• one who uses a divided plate for Thanksgiving dinner
• sermon
• an inspired messaged directed mainly at those who are not in attendance
• shindig
• an archeaological dig that reveals nothing but a big pile of tibias
• side-dish
• a good-looking mistress
• sitcom
• forerunner of the laugh track
• Sodom & Gomorrah
• a real urban renewal challenge
• soulmate
• what every "odd sock" is seaching for
• spin doctor
• the first Ph.D. to affix a propeller to his beanie cap
• stalemate
• a spouse whose favorite breakfast is chipped beef on zwieback
• stir fry
• a prison potato
• stroke-of-luck
• hole-in-one
• stuff
• what people do on Thanksgiving - first to the turkey, then to themselves
• subscribe
• keeper of the log of the USS Nautilus
• surefire
• giving a box of matches to a pyromaniac
• surgeon
• a class cutup who makes good
• the end is near
• the opening line of a short story
• toboggan
• to haggle over prices in Boston
• tongue lashing
• an assault on an ice cream cone
• trade deficit
• when you import more automobiles than you export "Big Macs"
• veiled threat
• when your girlfriend hints at a wedding
• wanton soup
• a Chinese soup gone awry
• winsome
• the first half of the philosophy of a coach who loses half his games
• wisdom
• the real reason Wis was unable to attend college
• yuletide
• the tsunami of the Christ