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Stockbroker
Bookie to the speculating class; a friendly persuader who, if he listened to his own advice, would now be lounging on skid row. |
Street Gang
A territorial pack of young urban wolves whose members provide a valuable public service by eliminating their rivals on a regular basis. |
Street Loonies
Generally the only big-city inhabitants a stranger may count on for honest conversation. |
Street Wisdom
An essential quality for success in most human endeavours, which we neglected to learn in school because we were too busy studying French and trigonometry. |
Stress
Collective term for the insults a body must endure when thrust into a less-than-congenial predicament; e.g., overwork, unemployment, a shopping mall in December or a holiday with one's in-laws. An effective antidote to the increased life expectancy made possible by recent advances in medical science. |
Stretch Limo
In the U.S. an elongated chauffeur-driven, apparatus, generally exceeding the length of an adult stegosaurus, that proclaims the importance of its passengers while concealing their actual identities from the stares of the unwashed. |
Strike
When union workers take an open-ended holiday, all at the same time, in an attempt to win sympathy from management. |
Stud
A slut with chest hair. |
Subculture
The basic unit of clannishness in post-ethnic, post-religious, post-war Britain, enabling an Irish Catholic from Liverpool to forge a bold new identity as a double-glazing salesman in Essex. Subsidy An allowance the government pays unmarried women who produce bountiful crops and farmers who don't. Some agriculturists actually receive money on the condition they produce nothing at all, a practice that would better serve society if extended to cigarette manufacturers and rap artists. |
Suburbia
A scattered archipelago of residential enclaves offering neither the diversions of city life nor the rustic solace of the countryside; a world characterized by a comforting blandness of architecture and mental outlook, which may explain why it has lured a statistical majority of the British populace. |
