Metrosexual: a creature that breeds in the subway.
Election:
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Metrosexual: a creature that breeds in the subway.
Election:
You kill me, YesNo.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Election: A method for choosing dictators in the West.
Patrician
Patrician: A person of noble birth, much better in their own eyes than the common man. At one time, patricians that couldn't even read or write and had the manners of a drunken sailor were still considered high quality. Still are, but they are not very popular to the rest of the 1% and looked down upon even by the homeless.
Educated:
Educated: People with student loan debt to pay off.
Close Reading
The examination of a poem through close analysis of metre, rhyme (or lack thereof). and the semantic relations of its imagery...or, in the real world, the steady examining of my wife's glare as she asks me what I did on my boys-weekend-out at Vegas.
Sublime
Sublime: A description of a guy’s experience on a boys’-weekend-without-their-wives in Vegas that could even more accurately describe their wives’ experience while they were gone.
Vegas
The new playground of middle-class to upper middle-class America where Anglo-American puritanism is wantonly exchanged for pre-Counter-Reformation prurience and hedonism.
Masterpiece:
Masterpiece: A sign that something should be avoided like when a movie wins an award at an artsy film festival.
Artsy
An "art work" where the artist spent three times as much time trying to appear artistic as he or she tried to actually make a work of art.
Religious
Religious: Having a zeal to worship God, Gods, Nature, Old Religion, Idols, or anything else. Being religious is not the same as being a dedicated Christian, Muslim, Hindi, Buddhist, Zen or any other recognized religion. The person just wants to fit in somewhere.
Hypocrite:
Someone who makes aesthetic/philosophical claims then makes aesthetic statements contradicting those claims.
Aesthete:
Aesthete: A medical condition characterized by a swollen head.
Condition:
You have a very low esteem for art appreciators.
The hidden requirement parents reveal to their children right after telling them they're going to buy them something they want.
Paradox:
Paradox: Refusal to admit that one’s pet theory needs to be modified.
Pet:
Pet: Any human owned by a dog, cat, rabbit, or whatever. You mean you thought they were your pets? You moron!
Peeved:
Peeved: What your pet becomes when the food bowl is not filled on time.
Time
Time: God's arrow. Unfortunately we're the bullseye.
Sea sponge
...use sponge.
Steven Wright joke: "Sponges grow in the ocean. That kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."
Anemone
The most oblivious infinite dimension and most precious finite gift of the universe.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Dimension:
Anemone: Since it doesn't have 'sea' before it, a flower - which rhymes with pee rather than bone or groan - in case you are planning to use it in poetry.
Dimension: something which the human mind can only comprehend three of, unless you have the mind of Theodor Kaluza.
Rule of thumb:
Rule of thumb: government by those adept at rude hand gestures to the masses
Ectoplasm
Ectoplasm: The white sheet some ghosts need to convince you they’re ghosts.
Causal Connection:
The mysterious explanation people seek for the aesthetic preferences of others without ever seeking such a mysterious explanation for their own.
Transgressive:
Transgressive: A work of art intended to shock the mainstream if only the mainstream showed up to see it.
Shock
Shock: My indignation to your reaction to my proposal, when I obviously have the right idea and you do not
Pushy:
Pushy: How too many straight, white men view women, gays, and ethnic minorities who insist on the same constitutional rights they themselves enjoy.
Edgy:
Edgy: Taking a risk by swimming at the deep end of the toddlers’ Play Pool.
Cryptid:
Cryptid: Any of a number of unusual creatures that may or may not exist such as an honest Politician
Honor:
Honor: a crypto-zoological membrane alleged to have been sighted on remote wedding nights.
Tenure
A concept to which few people actually adhere, as most prefer to value "success" or achieve victory over such adherence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Conservative:
Tenure: A point in a brilliant career when one no longer has to be productive.
Conservative: Someone who thinks he’s not a liberal.
Emo
Emo: one too sensitive to care about anyone but himself
Miser
Emo: Jon Snow.
Centrist:
Miser: Someone wiser about money than I am.
Centrist: Someone who thinks he’s neither a liberal nor a conservative.
Multiverse
Multiverse: More universes than one
Pandemic:
When new-agey panpipe tunes become top-40.
New Age
New Age: The same old crap refurbished and polished, because there is nothing really new under the sun
Gambler:
Gambler: Someone who dares to go against the dominant ethical principles of his most intimate circle
Heretic:
Heretic: A contrarian to the current trend.
Trend:
Trend: a mixture of economics and fashion for the hard-of-thinking.
Knight: