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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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