Noun, adjective, adverb, and verb.

1. A phrase that, when repeated again and again, morphs into quite another, unsavory phrase.

2. The name for an ancient Siamest proverb. "Whatana Ssiam" means, in Siamese: "The eye of the fart." Or, in addition, "The I of the fart."

3. Political themes of the Dukakis and Kerry campaigns, on the Democrat side, and the George Allen and Rick Santorum campaigns on the Republican side.

4. A hex as old as the Middle Ages.

5. A Siamese bathroom dance. Preferably chanted before one's Cosmonaut is splashed down.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods