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noun: a wrinkle that appears while a person thinks intensely
Paul's thinkle appeared as he considered what Erin had said.
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LIZ or "Low Information Zone" refers to the distance or set of circumstances at which UFOs are recorded when the resulting eyewitness account, image or video contains insufficient information to identify them, even as non-human craft.
Historically, UFOs have stayed at just the right distance so that they can't be identified. Hence, in photos or videos they appear as fuzzy blobs or points of light. Even more curiously this distance seems to vary by if the viewer has a camera, and then by the quality of the zoom lens on that camera. With better cameras and better lighting conditions, the UFOs get further away.
The ability of UFOs to stay in the LIZ has led many to conclude that UFOs are mostly, or entirely, identifiable object like planes, birds, and balloons, and that the reason that UFOs are all in the LIZ is because if they were closer, or had better lighting or focus, then they would be identified and not be UFOs.
The term was coined by UFO skeptic Mick West, in September 2019.
UFO Enthusiast: We have thousands of videos of UFOs
UFO Skeptic: Any that are not in the LIZ?
UFO Enthusiast: Well, no, but there's so many of them!
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ADJ. - The praise or elevation of lowered expectations.
The celebration of mediocrity or poor performance.
accept / accepted + exceptional
The schools in the United States have undertaken an acceptional approach to teaching students compared to other developed nations.
Self-centered intentions often lead to acceptional acts of altruism.
In general American Acceptionalism would be the hallmark of our society in the 21st Century.
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An old slang term for a detective or investigator (police-affiliated or private). Variants include "dick" or "private dick," the connotations of which were not meant to be obscene.
Shoes in the late 1800s were made of gum rubber - the soft-soled precursors of the modern sneaker. The phrase "to gumshoe" meant to sneak around quietly as if wearing gumshoes.
"Gumshoe man" was originally slang for "thief," but by about 1908 the term "gumshoe" was used to refer to a police detective, and the term has stuck ever since (pun intended).
Sam Spade, the most well-known gumshoe of noir cinema, spent the majority of The Maltese Falcon trying to solve a murder mystery.
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Howdy, partner! Ya'll from 'round these parts?
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A genre of videos that invoke a feeling of hope, glee, wholeness, and most happy emotions. They can range to nostalgic clips, beautiful scenery, and usually have an audio of spliced together videos and songs.
“Man, the only thing keeping me alive right now is my mom and hopecore videos.”
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Informal description of a male-to-female transgendered parent (the MTF counterpart to "mom" or "dad"), derived from a combination of "mom" and "poppa". First popularized by the award-winning Amazon series "Transparent".
Have you met my moppa, Aileen?
I'm having dinner with my mom and moppa tonight.
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