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| #3738 |  | Bachelor: A guy who is footloose and fiancee-free.
 
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| #3739 |  | Bachelor: A man who chases women and never Mrs. one.
 
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| #3740 |  | Backward conditioning: Putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring.
 
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| #3741 |  | Bagbiter: 1. n.; Equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently.  2.
 adj.: Failing hardware or software.  "This bagbiting system won't let me get
 out of spacewar." Usage: verges on obscenity.  Grammatically separable; one
 may speak of "biting the bag".  Synonyms: LOSER, LOSING, CRETINOUS,
 BLETCHEROUS, BARFUCIOUS, CHOMPER, CHOMPING.
 
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| #3742 |  | Bagdikian's Observation: Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper
 is like trying to play Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" on a ukelele.
 
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| #3743 |  | Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by
 governors.
 
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| #3744 |  | Ballistophobia: Fear of bullets;
 Otophobia:
 Fear of opening one's eyes.
 Peccatophobia:
 Fear of sinning.
 Taphephobia:
 Fear of being buried alive.
 Sitophobia:
 Fear of food.
 Trichophobbia:
 Fear of hair.
 Vestiphobia:
 Fear of clothing.
 
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| #3745 |  | Banacek's Eighteenth Polish Proverb: The hippo has no sting, but the wise man would rather be sat upon
 by the bee.
 
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| #3746 |  | Banectomy, n.: The removal of bruises on a banana.
 -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
 
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| #3747 |  | Barach's Rule: An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician.
 
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