Dead man

From Plastic Tub

dead man gn. 1. The unspoken and invisible dictators of culture, the necrocracy. 2. The act of being passed the mantle from that which has not yet existed. 3. The likely product of sciomachy; evocation. 4. The origin of accidents and the elaboration of instructional material from such. 5. The grateful acceptance of advice from the fevered or delusory. 6. An empty mountain.

Extrapolation


Michael Baldwin entertained a variation of dead man, arriving at Dead French Men. He used the term to indicate he'd been to a lot of college and was entitled to the beer discount, as advertised.

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Desiderata