Hayward's Unabridged Dictionary
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: C.J.S. Hayward Publications
Place of publication: Wheaton
Language: eng
Format: Jacket hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780615193625
First sentence: Dear Valued Patron;

How would you like to associate your organization with false advertising, illegal marketing scams, snake oil diets, and unsolicited pornography?
Description: Hayward's Unabridged Dictionary

There is a certain kind of person who gravitates towards technology, tinkers with computer programs, and may be fond of obscure technical jokes and equally obscure hobbies. But what they have is not just a way of looking at difficult technical subjects. It is an interesting way of looking at life as a whole.

This book provides a slice of this "interesting way of looking at life as a whole," complete with a satire-filled dictionary which looks at life and culture and pointing out some of its ironies and incongruities.

Candid and offbeat, this book offers an unforgettable read.
A quote:

    Christmas, n. A yearly holiday celebrating the coming of the chief Deity of Western civilization: Mammon...

    Educated, adj. Unemployed with a degree...

    Marxism, n. A system of thought named after Karl Marx, who said, "Religion is the opium of the people," and, coincidentally, lived before the invention of television...

    Pesticide, n. A chemical agent used to increase the population of pests by making them immune to poison and by destroying their natural predators...
Notes: The author homepage is at http://CJSHayward.com/ . Hayward's Unabridged Dictionary has a homepage at http://CJSHayward.com/books/haywards-unabridged-dictionary/ and can be read online from its homepage.
Table of contents: An Open Letter to Spam Patrons, an explanation about why sending spam represents a business badly.; All I Really Needed to Learn About Programming, I Learned from Java, which looks at Java and programming.; The Modern Baccalaureate, a work that turns Gilbert and Sullivan's "Modern Major-General" on its head.; The Case for Uncreative Web Design, a look at what is good about uncreative web design.; The Administrator who Cried, "Important!", a look at what is not so good when administrators leave employees drowning in required readings.; Christian Koans, a few koans with a Christian bent.; Religion Within the Bounds of Amusement, a look at television and religion.; So You've Hired a Hacker (Revised and Expanded), a revised version of a classic F.A.Q. list.; Hayward's Unabridged Dictionary, a satirical dictionary in the tradition of Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary."