Definitions:
Asymmetric Warfare
Dropping a large hydrogen bomb on Mecca. Also known as
"Jihad, Texas-Style"
Beer
Beer is food.
Benelux
The Belgium - Netherlands - Luxembourg region of Europe.
(Also known as the Triangle of Evil.)
Bermanization
The process of destroying Star Trek as an interesting concept.
Bluegrass
Bluegrass is country music that is polyphonic in character
and is played on unamplified string instruments.
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson is God.
Brokerburger
If we lose our sense of humor, then Bin Laden has truly won.
(You may need to brush up on your Heinlein.)
Chantefleur Blanc de Blancs
Chantefleur Blanc de Blancs is made from the Ugni Blanc,
Grenache Blanc and other French varietals.
Chicken Marengo
Chicken Marengo consists of a sauce made of oil and water,
a chicken, eggs cooked in the sauce with some garlic and tomatoes,
and six crayfish, steamed over the chicken as it cooks in brandy.
Cleveland
Cleveland is a tac nuke magnet.
Cosmoline
Cosmoline is a heavy-grade lubricant used to protect machine surfaces.
It smells like surplus military parts.
Danger Zone, The
Black women, black rum, and waterspouts.
Desperation Domain Name
A really long domain name.
Elg
Elg is Norwegian for moose.
Everything
Everything is deeply intertwingled.
Foamie
A bodyboarder.
Good
Good is a noun.
Hacker
A hacker is an explorer and/or creator of systems.
Hangry
Hangry is hungry + angry.
Heisenmurphy
The space that your mind cannot comprehend.
Henids
A word coined by Jack London for which there is no known meaning.
Hiddenite
Hiddenite is strongly pleochroic.
IEBEYEBALL
To peruse a computer printout.
Jupe
To steal an Internet Relay Chat server name or client nick.
Ke-Ke-Te-Huru-Huru
Polynesian for "Heave Ho!"
Kitsombe
A slender wild potato that looks like shriveled asparagus.
Laffyhahas
The giggles.
Lagon
The space between too much and too little.
Laughter
We laugh because it hurts. Because it is
the only thing that will make is stop hurting.
Laughter is a bravery, and a sharing,
against pain and sorrow and defeat.
Love
Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door.
It smells like lysol.
Lutefisk
Lutefisk is dried cod that has soaked for days
in water and lye. Reconstituted, lutefisk
has a bloated, translucent, Jell-O-ish quality,
like something that has fallen to earth from outer space.
Marmite
Yeast, sugar, salt, wheatgerm extract, mineral salt (508),
colour (caramel), herbs, spices, vitamins (niacin, thiamin, riboflavin).
Matthew Effect
The theory that discoveries are attributed to the person with the
biggest reputation at the time.
Mensan
Mensans are smart fuckers who love to party.
Nooner
To have sex at high noon, as in
"I think I'll go scare up the wife for a nooner."
Pain
Decolorized tincture of iodine.
Pegmatite
A course variety of granite, occurring in dikes or veins.
Perlgrammer
A Perl Programmer.
Photon
A photon is a tetrahedron.
Pizza
Pizza is essential. It is a sine qua non.
Poetaster
Poet + Disaster
Promite
Vegetable protein extract, sugar, yeast, natural colour (caramel),
salt, thickener (Wheat starch), emulsifier (Glycerol monostearate),
spices, added vitamins, water
Pirsighian
n: one who believe in or follows the writings of Robert Pirsig, or adj:
relating to ideas presented in the writings of Robert Pirsig.
Plectarine
A cross between a plum and a nectarine.
Puce
A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
Quality
Quality cannot be defined.
Relationship
(in Ohio) A six pack and a condom.
Residual Anguish
Residual Anguish is that which knowledge
cannot conquer, even in a "perfect" society.
San Diego in a Box
An evaporative cooler.
Schadenfreude
A mischievous delight in the misfortune of another.
Slammerkin
A loose type of nightgown worn in the 18th century. Also, a prostitute.
Sleeping Dictionary
The very best way to learn a new language.
Slig
A foul smelling, yet incredibly tasty pig/slug hybrid craved by the wealthy.
Smile
The greatest rock album that never was.
Squeezle
To hug a woman so that she squawks like a rubber ducky.
Statti zitto e mangia!
Italian for "Shut up and eat!"
Sunshine Unit
One micromicro curie (one millibecquerel) of strontium-90 per gram of calcium.
Surströmming
Fermented Baltic herring. Stinks to high heaven. (See also Lutefisk)
Sympathy
The definition for sympathy can be found
in the dictionary, between shit and syphilis.
Tanstaafl
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!
Tanty
a tantrum.
Teratogen
(terato + gen: literally, monster maker)
An agent, such as a virus, a drug, or radiation,
that causes malformation of an embryo or a fetus.
The Three B's
Brahms, Brian Wilson, and Bluegrass.
Tilapia
Tilapias are pretty cool fish.
Trashanium
Today's trash dumps, when geologically buried
and subjected to tremendous forces of heat and pressure,
will become the high grade metallo-organic ores of the far future.
Tree
A tree is a tetrahedron.
Tumbolia
The land of burnt-out lightbulbs and dead hiccups.
Vaterite
A rare, high temperature polymorph of Calcite and Aragonite.
Vegemite
Yeast extract, salt, malt extract, colour (caramel),
vegetable flavours, vitamins (niacin, thiamine, riboflavin).
Weet-Bix
Whole Wheat, Raw Sugar, Salt, Malt Extract,
Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Folate), Mineral (Iron).
White Cheddar Cheese Popcorn
The Snack Food of the Nineties!
Wolverine
A souped up badger. (definition courtesy of Giltweasl)
The wolverine is a very strong animal and a fierce fighter, knowing few
dangers from other animals, with Man being its biggest threat. With strong
claws, a strong sense of smell, and a tenacious spirit it can be a relentless
hunter and scavenger. The wolverine has even been known to steal prey from
a grizzly bear. The wolverine seems to have the attitude that if it can be
eaten, it should be. It is called the glutton in some areas because of this desire
to eat anything. The wolverine has a very strong and fast-acting digestive
system, which allows it to eat a great deal of food very quickly. Because of
its habit of scavenging, it has been called "the hyena of the North."
"Picture a weasel -- and most of us can do that, for we have met
that little demon of destruction, that small atom of insensate
courage, that symbol of slaughter, sleeplessness, and tireless,
incredible activity -- picture that scrap of demoniac fury,
multiply that mite some fifty times, and you have the likeness
of a Wolverine."
Ernest Thompson Seton, 1953
Yrch
Elvish for Orc.
6EQUJ5
The "Wow!" signal.
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