cherry picker

1) Person who choses easy tasks over challenging ones.

2) Man who seduces young virgins.

1) "You chose to update the booklets rather than take on the big Hong Kong project? You are such a cherry picker!"

2) "You're dating another Freshman English major? You are such a cherry picker!"

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Indian summer

Warm spell in autumn.

"Indian" meant "false" by racist colonialists.

See Indian giver.

Thanks to the Indian summer, I'll be playing softball with my family on Thanksgiving.

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Pseudocybersimiansymbiosis

Pseudo: fake, false

Cyber: computers or robotics

Simian: monkeys

Symbiosis: mutual


The illusion of augmented monkeys and humans living together in harmony.

At first, the advent of augmented monkeys seemed beneficial for humanity but a sinister conspiracy on behalf of the "little metallic furry friends" soon became apparent. The realization of the pseudocybersimiansymbiosis was too late.

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pre-madonna

A very young prima donna.

It is a play on words that uses "Madonna", the name of a pop-music star who is a prima donna of the highest order.

Pre-madonnas cannot help they way they are because their parents spoiled them and they are still developing their personalities.

My niece is a pre-Madonna. All she has to do is whine and her parents give her what she wants.

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dispro

Vulgar term midgets use to refer to a dwarf.

Midget #1: Hey! Check out the dispro auditioning for the movie!

Midget #2: Don't say that! He's a little person just like you and me. We have disproportionalities too.

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sudoku

A puzzle invented by an American but popularized by the Japanese.

The puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid which is partitioned into nine 3x3 boxes. Typically, 20 to 25 of the 81 cells are pre-filled with one numerical digit. The objective is to fill the remaining cells such that each digit (1 through 9) is represented in every row, column and box.

Easy to moderate puzzles can be solved via simple elimination.

More difficult puzzles require some "what if" propositions to solve.

Solving Sudoku by hand is a routine diversion but writing a program to solve or create Sudoku puzzles is a more interesting challenge.

I got a Sudoku book for Christmas and wrote a program that could solve any of the puzzles in under a second.

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dittohead

Someone with strong opinions (especially political) but lacks the eloquence to express them. He makes his stance known only by agreeing with an eloquent speaker with the same opinions.

Teacher: Class, what do you think?

Robert: The problem is with the tax
accountant lobbyists who demand ever more complicated tax codes to give themselves job security and tax payers headaches.

Herbert: Yeah! What he said.

Teacher: Herbert, you are such a dittohead!

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