irritable Powell syndrome

(n) a rare but serious effect, most noted by journalist Tucker Carlson, wherein Sidney Powell gives you earful in reaction to numerous interview requests.

Interview requests that ask you to talk, on air, about highly consequential, ongoing litigation

Etymology: cf. Sidney Powell; a federal attorney, best known for her defense of Michael Flynn and for having brass balls bigger than most men in Washington DC

Maria Bartiromo from CNBC knows how to get an interview without causing irritable Powell syndrome // she's also rather hot

blueneck

blueneck (n): an individual isolated among the extreme leftward sociopolitical realm in the US

the blueneck is an individual who generally fails to understand the basic notions of economics or traditional religion and sees existence through a simplistic notion of culture, ideas and impulses; e.g. "aging liberal hippie douche" (cf. South Park)

blueneck example: tenured philosophy professor who makes 90 grand a year, has one child (in grad school); paid off his house in 1998, and lives in a town in Vermont where the last violent crime was the Revolutionary War

philosophy professor: "so I said to my colleague, 'I say Charles, that overweight caterer for your faculty retirement party misspelled "hors d'oeuvres" haha' "

(Northern New England; San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Chapel Hill, NC; Sante Fe, NM; Austin, TX; Greenwich village and Brooklyn NY)

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caulk fight

caulk fight (n) the final stage of minor fixes, "touch-ups" and punch list items in a home remodeling project;

the contractor and homeowner endlessly skirmish over money and scope of work disputes

We've been polishing the granite and doing paint touch-ups for the Franklin job for 9 days. Tell the foreman to end this damn caulk fight!

bragriculture

bragriculture (noun): excessive devotion to sustainability and fair labor practices in farming with very loud advertising of this to offset ridiculous prices

"Intelligenstia is some great coffee"

"Yeah but you need financing to buy a pound of beans. It's total bragriculture."

ewok

ewok (noun) term of reference for non-coastal American with socially traditional beliefs

("ewok" is an anagram of "woke". The term comes from a warring, primitive bear-like lifeform in the Star Wars movies who were aggressive and tribalistic)

old country

any eastern European or Eurasian nation that ends in "-ia"; some in "-stan"; also Poland

ex: Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Kazakhstan, Waziristan

made famous by the elderly Ashkenazi couple Boris and Minka on the Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats"--it is always "old country" without an article

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blueballing

blueballing (n/v) exaggeration of a film or TV show's ratings based largely or entirely on "blue" zip code political sympathies of the reviewers

Amy Schumer could read the phone book on stage and Rotten Tomatoes would give her 99 percent rating for trashing some mean ex-boyfriend. They've been blueballing anything she does.

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