Few things sound unfunnier than “a dictionary of the future,” conceived as a way to bring almost two hundred authors and artists together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election.
If the following passage from McSweeney’s sniglets.

You see! I would have gotten it all wrong. I thought it was a cosmetics reference to smeared lipstick. Although, I guess that would be two words, both caps.
Go figure…or don’t.