The Devil's Diplomatic Dictionary: Political Satire

A witty look at the strange world of inter-dimensional missions, the Devil's Diplomatic Dictionary brings a light-hearted laugh to the world of diplomacy, providing funny definitions of the most common terms and phrases of dipspeak, the foreign language spoken by all diplomats, and only diplomats. Wittastic! Free sample's from the dictionary follow for your edification: Pocahontas: A white person, who thinks themselves to be an Indian, although they are not tribally enrolled, nor have any demonstrable Indian blood or tribal adoption; supposedly a Harvard law school has a quota of Pocahontas's though whether this quota, if it even exists, is a glass ceiling or glass floor is open for debate. Navajo Code Talker: An Indian, usually but not necessarily a Navajo, who talks about "flying turkeys" who are all set for a "crash landing" and will end up in a "birdcage"; possibly in English, if they are feeling so inclined. See also: Counting Coups. See also: hero. Counting Coups: The Indian practice, among some tribes, of quietly putting a notch in their rifle for all the people they chose not to kill, but could have and maybe even should have. Indian: A term for some to be indignant about. Any of the various native nations on turtle island (q.v.) or any member thereof whether by blood or adoption. Possibly a corruption of the term Indigenous? Usually thought to be due to Columbus's navigation error. See also: redskin/red's kin. Redskin: A paleface suffering from a bad bout of nuclear radiation. Red's kin: Polite term for a half-breed, quarter-breed, octaroon, or any other mixed blood person; not to be confused with "red kin", which is a rude term for a shabby commie relative. Assimilation: See "slow-motion genocide"; "slow boiling a frog"; "raspberry reich". Translation, from "The Shadow King": “In deep cold cavernous spaces where shadows pair with shades where old books dream the dreams of times when they were trees where coal doth bear the diamond one knows not light nor day there ’tis where every spirit reigns who one would call a shadow-king” --Colophonius Regenschein (see also: "the devil is beating his wife again")