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Who.
Alto:
Alto: High as compared with low, however, were it a voice type it would be somewhere between soprano and bass which would probably make it medium. It could also refer to the high Alto Mountains, if they existed.
Golden Mean:
Golden Mean: Geometrically miserly
Parsimonious:
Parsimonious: An alternative to the “cash is trash” world view.
Alternative:
Often good music that used to simply be referred to as music before boy bands and Taylor Swift appeared.
Progressive.
Progressive. Steadily growing worse to a pessimist; gradually getting better to an optimist
Backward:
Backward: A form of motion that comes natural for those with eyes in the back of their heads.
Natural:
Natural: The aroma of a field right after it's been fertilized.
Aroma.
Aroma: A surprising and sometimes delightful spike in olfactory sensation such as when an espresso comes close to the nose or just after the manure spreader has emptied its load.
Espresso:
Espresso: A beverage people often mispronounce 'expresso' when ordering, which, even though I know there is a beverage called expresso, as well, ordering this latter variant of espresso is not the intention of the restaurant patron. To describe my reaction at such moments as peevish is to describe Abraham Lincoln as not feeling well at the moment, since when I hear 'Expresso...' leaving the lips of said patron I want to drive a stainless steel railroad spike through his or her thorax.
Thorax:
Thorax: Caveman speech for Thor's Ax which of course he uses when his Hammer is being polished.
Insect:
Insect: A six legged wonder of nature until it crawls across your arm in the dark!
Gross Darkness:
Gross Darkness: A phrase from Isaiah and Jeremiah describing conditions as if without the Lord where the loss of light would smother life in hopeless heartlessness.
Hopeless:
Hopeless: Achievable but not without great sacrifice and diligent work. The major part of people will give up, which is true hopelessness...
Diligent:
Diligent: The opposite of sloth, not the animal but the deadly sin. The sloth (animal) is as diligent as any couch potato is likely to get.
Deadly sin:
Deadly sin: In the Bible, any infraction of God's Law. For the Catholic Church and now others worldwide one of seven: Greed, Envy, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Pride, and Lust
Greed:
Greed: An abnormal fear of poverty that makes even those who have too much want more.
More:
An English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.
English:
English: 1) British, despite Scotland and Wales. 2) Brit speak 3) American language, 4) Press 1 for
Foreign:
Foreign: Something one can do without if worse comes to worst.
Worse comes to worst:
Worse comes to worst: A nebulous measure of bad luck. One tends to forget that no matter how bad things get, worse or worst, they can always be more worse...
Empirical:
Empirical: The belief that if one actually sees it with one’s own eyes one will finally believe it.
Eyes:
Eyes: The thing that comes before E, except after C.
Exception:
Exception: The explanation that solves the problems that do not fit the given theory
Bogus:
Bogus: That part of a theory we hope isn’t true and as far as we're concerned might as well not be.
Morning Glory:
Morning Glory: Flower of the nuisance binder weed plant that manages to save that plant from total annihilation!
Nuisance:
Nuisance: An inconvenience nature in her fickleness provides for her entertainment.
Crowdsource:
Crowdsource: Information by mob rather than a direct interview, which gives the news the advantage of not having to reveal their sources even under court order, because they have no source, just a rumor repeated
News:
Crowdsource: The last remaining way for truly gifted musicians to finance their albums.
Finance:
News: What was yesterday speculation and will become stale by tomorrow. Might as well not bother.
Finance: A study of the root of all evil to make sure one doesn't miss out.
Stale:
Stale: Not fresh, so there is a lot of stale wit displayed by people each and every day 2) The only bread available in the house when you desperately need that midnight snack!
Enthusiastic:
Enthusiastic: An eagerness, perhaps foolish, perhaps not, but the eagerness will make it difficult to tell which one it is.
Foolish:
Any person hailing from the land of Folly, the world's most populous nation.
Half-wit:
Half-wit: 1) A person whom you feel that you have an advantage over in the brains department 2) What that person thinks about your IQ level
Morbid:
Morbid: To raise your offer at an auction
Trellis
Trellis: An object, like a pole, around which certain plants, who did not have the evolutionary motivation to bother solving the support problem, can entangle themselves. Often these plants have noticed this vertical object is something a human has left near them. Some of their members have even advanced theories suggesting that humans place these objects near them on purpose. Most plants, however, are sensibly skeptical of such theories and maintain the evidence for human intentionality is still weak.
Pole:
Pole: During the teenage right of passage process in High School, it goes like this. Several Seniors grab a Freshman and drop them nuts first onto an outside banister rail. The painful result is called Polling, and the action "to pole." Used thus: "Did you hear that nerd scream when Mac and me poled him? HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Swirly:
Swirly: A hairdo made possible by the invention of the flush toilet and laws requiring the educational system to continue teaching certain children long after they could be taught anything.
Tank:
Tank: An old friend of the "swirly" back when toilets had exposed tanks for flushing. The victim's face would be dunked or "Tanked" by forcing their face into the tank on the commode. To do this to a hapless victim was to "tank" him
Wedggie:
Wedgie: 1) A large Italian sandwich consisting of layers of cold cuts, stacked on a hero, 2) Any occasion on which an unwitting high school boy has his undies hoisted northward as far as nature will allow by itinerant bullies, creating a sensation which, in some few cases, the victim finds pleasurable, such that later in life he finds himself ordering couture women's unmentionables from foreign vendors in an effort to relive it in ever new and exotic ways.
Herculean: