The local sheriff was looking for a deputy, so Homer – who was not exactly the sharpest nail in the bucket – went in to try out for the job.
"Okay," the sheriff drawled, "Homer, what is 1 and 1?"
"11," he replied.
The sheriff thought to himself, "That"s not what I meant, but he"s right."
"What two days of the week start with the letter "T"?"
"Today and tomorrow."
He was again surprised that Homer supplied a correct answer that he had never thought of himself.
"Now Homer, listen carefully: Who killed Abraham Lincoln?"
Homer looked a little surprised himself, then thought really hard for a minute and finally admitted, "I don"t know."
"Well, why don"t you go home and work on that one for a while?"
So, Homer wandered over to the pool hall where his pals were waiting to hear the results of the interview. Homer was exultant.
"It went great! First day on the job and I"m already working on a murder case!"
v. (-ting) 1 travel some distance to and from work.
- (usu. Foll. By to) change (a punishment) to one less severe.
- (often foll. By into, for) change (one kind of payment or obligation) for another.
- exchange. commutable adj. Commutation n. [latin muto change]
COMPACT
disc n. Disc on which information or sound is recorded digitally and reproduced by reflection of laser light.
- —adj. - closely or neatly packed together.
- small and economically designed.
- concise.
- (of a person) small but well-proportioned. —v. Make compact. —n. (in full powder compact) small flat case for face-powder. compactly adv. Compactness n. [latin pango fasten]
- n. Agreement, contract. [latin: related to *pact]
COMPANY
n. (pl. -ies) 1 a number of people assembled. B guest(s).
- person's associate(s).
- a commercial business. B partners in this.
- actors etc. Working together.
- subdivision of an infantry battalion.
- body of people combined for a common purpose (the ship's company).
- being with another or others. in company with together with. Keep a person company remain with a person to be sociable. Part company (often foll. By with) cease to associate; separate; disagree. [french: related to *companion]
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A dog"s sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew.