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The entries include the facetious ( throat trouble Death by hanging; get or have a permanent To be executed by electrocution), the legal and legalistic ( executory devise A situation in which no estate vests under the will until the occurrence of a future event), the jargon-based ( psycho-weaponry Fear of death implanted in the minds of victims by terrorists; performance suicide Suicide in response to a sense of failure in meeting society's standards), the poetic ( pull a Frankie and Johnny To kill one's husband in revenge), the religious and mythological ( Petbe Egyptian myth .
So does the former name for the colony, Van Diemen's Land (so named by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman), or its facetious variant, Vandemonia (former Tasmanian convicts being known on the mainland as Vandemonians).
Ironists run a continual risk: if they nudge too hard and use too broad an irony, they risk sounding facetious; if they stay deadpan and use too subtle an irony, they sound in earnest and risk being taken literally.
On my Los Angeles radio show this past Saturday I did a facetious "Welcome to the Left" bit embracing GWB's new move to the progressive side.
The very terms Anglish and Yinglish invite scholarly derision as being both facetious and inaccurate.