Vague: being the dominant quality of any policy speech given by a candidate during an election.
Knob:
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Vague: being the dominant quality of any policy speech given by a candidate during an election.
Knob:
Vague: 1) sight-rhyme for segue 2) Vague is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly for the clueless 3) cloudy with a chance of fog
Segue
Hindsight: (Sigh): Sorry Tyrion Cheddar, I've been rather clueless on my gamesmanship lately. Have no idea how I fumbled this.
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Segue: Torture object created by piano teachers, it means that the next section is to be performed in the manner of the preceding section so that I don't drop from 4/4 time to something else. (Rulers are hard on the fingers when you get off rhythm!)
rhythm:
Rhythm: Something which I first learned as a drummer during my youth, and later with a girl.
Sun-Maid Tropical Dreams dried mango, 'cause I'm eating them:
Mango: The oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree that is tasty but which humorist and Miami resident Dave Barry says is responsible for a yard defiling condition known as "mango poop."
Defile:
Defile: To take something pure, decent and perfect and try to improve upon it.
Improvement:
Improvement: The thing which, when you're a person with poor balance like me and you make the mistake of trying to skateboard, you fall on with all the force gravity can exert, the side of your jaw connecting with it as though struck by a sledgehammer. Sorry, that's pavement. Improvement: what local activist committees do to your lovely small town, leaving signs gleefully taking credit for the wreckage.
Signage:
Signage: The things that block one's view of natural scenery. For example, there's a place I like to go that has pull-offs for some breath-taking views. People, knowing that hundreds pull over there every day have erected signs advertising this or that that can be seen clearly from the parking lots. Thank you, but if I wanted to see another McDonald's sign I could have stayed home an driven down Main Street...
Pull-Off:
Pull-Off: Now, Pendragon, there are so many places I could go with this, but as I've recently been warned to stay away from anything not PC-13, I'll take a detour right around them. Instead, I'll share what this term really means to me as a guitar player, and which gave me a frisson of glee when I read it up above, and that is a technique by which you use the third or fourth finger of the hand with which you push the strings down on the fretboard, to pull down on the string after fretting a note, thus creating another note. Blues, rock 'n' roll, hard rock, most modern forms of music would have had a dubious history without this technique.
Hammer-on:
Hammer-on:
1) U Can't Touch This / MC Hammer (Hammer-off: Too Legit To Quit)
2) 300 game (Hammer-off: sub-deuce)
3) 86.74 m (Hammer-off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXNWS5kJagU and variations thereof)
Bowling:
Bowling: What bowls tend to do when they are in the cupboard and out of sight.
PG-13:
PG-13: What would have been R when I was growing up. R is what rated X was back then. NC-17 is what was triple X back then. First thing you know, PG will replace G.
Silent Movie:
Silent Movie: 1) An arse bustingly funny movie by Mel Brooks, 2) the type of pre-Talkie black & white film which the aforementioned parodied.
Talkie:
Talkie: A widely acclaimed improvement on the silent movie unless you happen to be deaf.
Deaf:
Deaf: Inability to hear. It is both a medical condition (people may be born deaf or have their hearing permanently damaged in some way) and a mental one. For example there are those who hear only what they want to hear. We call that "convenient hearing"here. My grandfather suffered from this illness. He couldn't hear you talking face to face in the living room, but a whispered "When is he going home?" in my bedroom would have him madder than a hatter. My kids also had this illness, they couldn't hear me calling for them when they were only a couple dozen feet away, but they could hear "dinner time!"when they were a mile away. My daughter could hear the phone before it rang. Sheesh...
Sight: