Shred: What happens to evidence that doesn’t fit the facts.
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Shred: What happens to evidence that doesn’t fit the facts.
Fact:
Fact: That thing few people will allow to interfere with their theories.
Ideology:
Ideology: The study of idiots.
Alliance:
Alliance: A thing asserted to exist between the Federation and the Klingon Empire in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but since that show sucked harder than an industrial vacuum cleaner, I maintain that we and the Klingons are still enemies.
Enema:
Enema: Extra-extra-extra strength laxative... 2) No me fren', yo!
Yo!
Yo: 1) Other coast rendition of 'dude', or 'howdy'; 2) Yo's twin & Yo twins' Ma - famous string artists
Dude:
Dude: Depending on the inflection with which it is imbued by the speaker, 'Dude' can mean anything from hello to "Oh my god, I did not just seriously walk in on you and that guy from down the hall pullin' each other's puds..."
Ambiguous:
Ambiguous: Not clearly stated, but given a lot of room for interpretation, like the definition of "dude"
Precise:
Precise: An approval rating of a measurement.
Approval:
Approval: To be a sycophant for the favored
Sycophant:
Sycophant: Ok, like all elephants can't be sane after all.
Elephant:
Elephant: A creature too big for hide-and-seek.
Hide-and-seek:
Hide and Seek: Alternatively a timeless children's game, and a song by Howard Jones.
Pop:
Pop: Dear old Dad, now, as a Grandfather, my grandkids give me an extra pop, I am now Pop-Pop!
Hi-jinks:
Hi-jinks: What kids get up to. In my youth, that meant climbing trees and playing at pirates. These days, I think it's a euphemism for riotous sex.
Infantile:
Infantile: Complaining, whining, immature behavior that no self-respecting infant would ever indulge in.
Edit:
Edit: Used by publishers of all sorts, the word. generally used thus: "Just what we are looking for! I foresee only minor edits!" then they proceed to totally rewrite your poem, story, news article, screen play, novel etc.
Censor:
Censor: Someone who sacrifices his life to the sorry task of keeping other people’s minds locked up.
Sacrifice:
Sacrifice: 1) An unwilling victim human or animal ritually slain in worship of a God 2) To give up something you want for someone you love 3) To ruthlessly throw a weaker person under the bus so you can take credit for their ideas and blame them for your bad ideas. This is called Business 101
Ruthless:
Ruthless: What happens to the guy Ruth dumps.
Dump:
Dump: 1) A steaming pile of refuse and debris 2) The abrupt ending of a relationship.
Bequeath:
Bequeath: to give something to succeeding generations, such as money, property, and venereal disease.
Property:
Property: As opposed to a T-shirt with a rock band's name and logo on it, a proper T has a designer name sowed into the collar and is priced at thirty-eight times what it cost to make in a Philippines slave mill.
Exploitation:
Exploitation: Virtual slavery. This is often created by convincing the exploited to sign a mortgage or some other debt instrument of torture.
Torture:
Torture: Having to listen to anything fitting under the various headings rap, death metal or Disney pop.
Excretory:
Excretory: The process of doing number 2
Excrement:
Excrement: 1) The opposite of excellent. 2) What ex's cast at each other in non-amicable situations. 3) A mixture of cement and ex's (generally frowned upon in polite society).
Polite:
Polite: The state of fearing to tell things like they are. For example when you friend dyes his hair green and asks if you like it, the polite answer is "Yes!" when the real one is "You've lost your freaking mind, dude!"
Righteous:
Righteous: Rice, beans, guacamole, lettuce, tomato and possibly some kind of meat wrapped in a soft tortilla. Sorry, that's a burrito. Righteous: the sound activists make when they talk.
Hovercraft:
Hovercraft: A vehicle powered by air turbines that rides on a cusion of compressed air and thus can go on land, water, or most anywhere. One day someone will invent one about the size of a SUV which will be the perfect getaway car for bank robbers. I mean get this picture. The Cops are chasing the gang that robbed First National, who are in their custom hovercraft. The crooks lead the Cops to the lake where they blissfully continue across the water as the Cops either screech to a halt in the sand or mud, or plunge into the water! Wouldn't that make YouTube!
Hacker:
Hacker: The sort of person who invents YouTube, plus all the other cool 'ware we use these days, and who would rob a bank in the modern way, by breaking into their servers electronically and manipulating the data therein, as opposed to relying on getaway vehicles--although a Luke Skywalker-esque land speeder might tempt even a hacker to leave his lair and see daylight. Your image, though, Pendragon, was wonderfully Keystone Cops. ;-)
Larceny:
Larceny: What they call it in court when you steal. A small amount stolen is merely "petty larceny"; while a big bank job is "grand larceny". We wish to apologize to people named Larcen for having to point this out.
Grand Theft Auto:
GTA: a game which, like many modern MMOs and such, works too fast for my tired old brain to keep up with. Looks fun, though.
Diversion:
Diversion: A version of reality that is also entertaining.
Movie:
Movie: Once a new experience every time, it is now the latest rehash of a former box office smash in hopes of milking even more money out of the idea
Prime Time TV:
Prime Time TV: something in comparison to which, the average movie rehash is like unto Hamlet's third soliloquy. With a few exceptions, that is, though mostly decent drama is now the province of Netflix, Amazon, et al.
Content, as in the stuff wot we watch.
Content: The stuff that makes a movie take almost two hours get over with.
Milking Money:
Milking Money: The rate of pay down at the local dairy
Bull:
Bull: Something which, if you mistake it for a cow and try to milk it by tugging on what you think is its teat, will kick you from here to Halifax.
Todger:
Todger: British slang for Mr. Happy
Brass Monkey: