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Home Computer

1. What people called Personal Computers before they knew to call them PCs.

2. A PC that is kept at home.

Home Computers were made by Atari, Commodore, Timex/Sinclair, and Texas Instruments.

by Downstrike May 31, 2004

7πŸ‘ 4πŸ‘Ž


The Earthquake Rose

A design created by a pendulum swinging across sand during an earthquake.

Pictures of The Earthquake Rose created by The Rattle in Seattle may be seen at earthquakerose.com.

by Downstrike December 26, 2005

3πŸ‘ 3πŸ‘Ž


Chippy

A name given to a disoriented sea lion that swam up the California Aquesuct almost as far as Los Banos.

Chippy was named after CHiPs by the CHiPs who were wondering what the heck to do with a sea lion in the desert-like west side of San Joaquin Valley, which is quite fitting since the CHiPs around Los Banos get disoriented too. So watch out for them on I-5, or they'll run you over!

by Downstrike January 23, 2005

11πŸ‘ 29πŸ‘Ž


One-Hit-Wonder

A band or singer that everyone forgets about after their hit song runs its natural course into obscurity, because they can never get back onto the charts again. Most one-hit-wonders are that way because either they can't write their own songs, or their own songs are crap.

Crossover songs and artists are sometimes mistaken for One-Hit-Wonders, because listeners outside their genre don't know who they are. Anyone unfortunate enough to make this mistake is likely to be taken to task by numerous members of the artist's following, because it takes quite a good artist to pull off a crossover hit.

Your own songs just aren't going to cut it. Go find a hit song that no one else has covered in at least 20 years, so the teen audience will think it's new, and maybe you can be a One-hit-wonder.

Some One-Hit-Wonders:

Dean Friedman
Right Said Fred
Gary Numan
Soft Cell
Sammy Johns
The Reflections
The Electric Prunes
The Elegants
Bobby Dray

by Downstrike October 29, 2005

52πŸ‘ 7πŸ‘Ž


Freudian slip

1. A verbal or written flub-up in which one says what one really meant, rather than what one meant to say, by accidentally adding or subtracting a word or substituting a similar word that means something that indicates what one really thinks. The phenomenon is named after Sigmund Freud, who first described it.

2. Sigmund Freud in exhibitionistic drag.

1. I didn't mean to say the math teacher was fat. It was only a Freudian slip that I said her triangle had a hippopotamus when I meant to say hypotenuse.

2. No RL example known. If you do see it, snap that Kodak moment and post it.

by Downstrike January 29, 2006

351πŸ‘ 160πŸ‘Ž


do time

1. Serve a prison sentence.

2. Serve a hitch in the military, especially if drafted.

3. Get grounded.

After spending most of his teen years doing time (3) for the rents, the kid couldn't wait, so he upped and did time (2) as soon as he could. That got old, so he split before his time was up, got caught, did some time (1) in the big house, and still had to do the rest of his time when he got out. It was getting to be a habit.

by Downstrike November 2, 2004

29πŸ‘ 6πŸ‘Ž


conflict of interest

A financial, emotional, reputational, or other personal interest in any matter held by a person having authority over the same matter. Tking advantage of authority over such a self-serving personal interest may be considered criminal. At the very least, it is usually harmful to others.

Most legislators either already have been, or eventually become lawyers, so they abuse their conflict of interest over legislation to make sure that laws are conducive to the job security of lawyers and legislators.

by Downstrike May 22, 2004

66πŸ‘ 13πŸ‘Ž