office n. The place of employment for that segment of the working population who have made shuffling paper their business in lieu of meaningful labor.

oligarchy n. Government by an elite few; an evolved form of representative republic, in which the representatives legislate their own purposes rather than the wishes of the represented. Current governmental form in the United States.

opera n. A usually interminable spectacle purporting to represent musical entertainment, staged by males who prance about sounding as if their shorts are too tight together with corpulent females who yowl like cats in heat; the general intent appears to be a demonstration of the art of dying in three acts.