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Road Maintenance Workers

(n.) Government employees who sit on the grass all day and watch people walk past them

Reality

(n.) It is much harder to find a job than to keep one

Academic Research

(n.) Finding 10,000 ways that don't work

Rational

(adj.) the way men and women act when all other possibilities have been exhausted

Raisin

(n.) A grape with a sunburn

Replacement

(n.) The easiest way to find something lost around the house

Relativity

(n.) The softness of the bread is directly proportional to the hardness of the butter

Rechargeable battery

(n.) An energy storage device which dies at the most critical time of the most complex task

Retaliation

(n.) Doing whatever your enemies don’t want you to do

Refrigerator

(n.) Cold beer storage device

Star Ratings

see Chart

Rotisserie

(n.) A Ferris wheel for chickens

Retraction

(n.) The revision of an insult to give it wider circulation

Revolutionary

(n.) An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor

Recursion

(n.) Repetitive recurrence. If you still don't get it, see: Reiteration