Dragonfly: Yes, usually.
Plankton
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Dragonfly: Yes, usually.
Plankton
Plankton: A weight measure for wooden planks
Crawdad
Crawdad: Miniature lobsters cooked and sold in the Southern USA. Tried 'em in the Carolina's. It must be an acquired taste.
BTW, Dark Muse: Moth: Hippy Butterfly that gets stoned at every street light.
Hippy:
Hippy: A 1960’s political-fashion statement with beads, fancy-patched bell-bottom jeans, long flowing hair even on males, taking tokes on cigarettes passed around, going to protests and music festivals and not sure which one was which, talking about peace and love and communes and living off the land, not able to use their draft card as ID at the local greasy spoon because they either lost it or burnt it at the student sit-in last week or they were females and didn’t have one or they were already in Vietnam.
Oldies But Goodies
Jitterbug: a June Bug on Heisenberg's blue meth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Moth: the undead of the butterfly world.
Oldies But Goodies: Term applied to films, books, plays, music, etc. that means it is far past the time it was a big hit but some still consider it worthwhile.
Passé :
Passé: A delicate French sauce poured over old news.
Damaged Goods:
Damaged Goods: Politically correct for insane
Institutionalized:
Institutionalized: What we all should be after decades of political correctness.
Fracking
Fracking: expl.; short for "Frack the environment, we need the oil!"
Geomancy
Geomancy: Inspiration coming from tossed rocks or sand used as prompts.
Chick Magnet:
Chick Magnet: What every middle-aged, fat, balding moron believes himself to be
Babe:
Babe: A word used by couples to get the attention of the other and soften a bit the content of the rest of the sentence, such as, when a man asks, “Babe, can you get me another beer?” He is kind of expecting her to move to the refrigerator now, pop the cap and bring it to him. Or when she says, “Babe, you know it’s your kid!” She’s expecting him to realize that that weekend she was away for her high school reunion in Vegas had nothing to do with it.
Back Seat Driver:
Back Seat Driver: Annoying person who tells you how to drive. Just speed up and recklessly pass a line of vehicles, barely clearing the last one in front of an oncoming car. They will shut up in a hurry!
Armchair Quarterback:
The guy who passes or hands off the armchair, of course.
Box of rocks
Box of rocks: An IQ contest where the box of rocks wins.
Just a second:
Just a Second: Indefinite period of time, certainly longer than a second and possibly hours.
Prejudice:
Prejudice: A form of justice that skips the evidence phase since it wouldn't make any difference anyway.
Summer Solstice:
Summer Solstice: 1) The longest day of the year, beating out Mondays by a large margin 2) Celebration Day observed by Wiccans, Druids, Native Americans, Celtics, and followers of Gaia, or The Old Religion. As it is the first day of Summer, they might have a point, but Christians and others consider their rituals Pagan in nature. So what? They enjoy it and as a Christian it doesn't bother me to have them party. Just because it's finally Summer I might do a little dancing myself!
Winter Solstice:
Winter Solstice: Half way back to the Summer solstice.
Fate worse than death:
Fate worse than death: 1) to some, eternal damnation 2) to some, marriage 3) and to some, 1 and 2 are interchangeable...
Dope:
Dope: 1. Abysmally stupid person.
2. Illegal drugs.
3. Abysmally stupid person who takes illegal drugs.
4. Really cool and awesome.
Awesome
Awesome: Cool, hot, righteous, dude, the bomb, word, etc.
Flag:
Flag: Something shaped like a rectangle that waves in the wind and therefore should really be shaped like a hand.
Bodyguard:
Bodyguard: A mercenary paid to level the playing field and fight the bad guys for you which makes you wonder why the bad guys are there in the first place.
Bad Guy:
Bad Guy: Someone who has balls but no brain and no heart.
Brain:
Brain: That part of one’s heart that thinks it is in control.
Interstellar:
Interstanley's beloved.
Streetcar
Streetcar: American for tram.
Imaginary friend:
Imaginary friend: Otherwise referred to as "those voices in your head."
Worst Enemy:
Worst Enemy: A sort of imaginary friend whom one uses to show how magnanimous one is. Eg. "I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy."
Patriotic
Patriotic: Standing up for what you believe your country's policy should be, not to be confused with what your country's policy actually is
SNAFU:
SNAFU is a situation of error that no one wants to own up to. No one will point fingers, well, not until they get themselves a podium, a microphone, a screen, a projector, and a laser pointer.
Impulse:
Impulse: Something one knows one shouldn’t do, but, hey, why not?
Cat Scan:
Cat Scan: the inspection of a beast the censor will not permit me to mention.
Centaur
Centaur: hundred gold coins.
Expulsion
Expulsion: a pulsion you married but subsequently divorced.
Birdsong
Birdsong: 1) The cheerful chirping of birds on a sunny morning 2) The law ruckus caused by crows when one is trying to be quite and line up a shot during deer season
Nonsense:
Nonsense: Other people's opinions when they differ from our own.
Rigmarole:
Rigmarole: Political speech
Weasel: