schadenfreude (no dots on u) is mischievious pleasure, when you're laughing about someone's misfortune. nothing to do with what i read here so far. iris --- Joe Crawford <jcrawford at avencom.com> wrote: > Tony Crockford wrote: > > > > Not a dictionary definition, but: > > > > someone who does things they know to be wrong, on > the basis that > > "chances are they won't get caught" > > Yeah, that makes sense. It's the "getting caught" > part of it which was > what I couldn't suss out. > > Me like idioms! > > - Joe <http://artlung.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > thechat mailing list > thechat at lists.evolt.org > http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/thechat > http://lists.evolt.org/thechatarchive/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/