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The act of copying someone's digital video or music collection in total; often times by attaching a portable USB hard drive to their computer. Taken from the fictional alien race The Borg, from Star Trek: The Next Generation, whose primary purpose was to assimilate entire races via technology.
John and Jenny have set up their computers on a network, and they're Borging each other's Madonna collection.
I took my USB drive to Billy's house and Borged seasons 1-7 of The Simpsons.
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noun: a point of view one holds for a movie, tv show or other form of entertainment that you adored as a child, so much so that as an adult, despite reflecting on it and realizing it is sub-par or flawed, you still think of it as excellent.
Conversely, someone who never experienced it as a child and does so for the first time as an adult might think it is awful and not understand why people adore it.
References the 1985 film "The Goonies," a children's movie with numerous technical flaws and editing mistakes, plot holes, terrible child acting and overall nonsense that had an atrocious critical reception but is beloved to adults who watched it as children.
"I just watched "Heathers" for the first time, and I don't understand why you like it. I thought it was stupid. I think you have Goonie Goggles for "Heathers".
Cyndi Lauper is an American icon who rose to fame in the highly visual era of the 1980's. Her family-friendly punk rock look (wild hairstyles and thrift store clothing) often overshadowed the legitimate brilliance of her music.
During that era she exploded with seminal music hits from her first two albums, such as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "Time After Time," "She Bop," "Money Changes Everything", "The Goonies 'R Good Enough," "True Colors," and "Change of Heart".
Her 1989 third record was a success abroad but failed in America. Around this time she began her foray into acting with the comedy disaster "Vibes". There was a five year break and then Lauper came back with a greatest hits album which reworked her hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," making it a hit all over again.
Lauper continued to pursue acting, and received accolades for smaller roles in films such as "Life With Mikey;" ultimately she received an Emmy award for her work on the program "Mad About You". Though most of her acting work since has been limited to small featured roles, she received massive critical acclaim for her performance opposite Christopher Walken in the 2000 film "The Opportunists".
Lauper continued to release a steady stream of albums, including "Hat Full of Stars" (1993) and "Sisters of Avalon" (1996.) Though both spawned dance chart hits, they were again internationally successful but not popular in America.
Following a 1998 Christmas album, Lauper finished a record called "Shine" which was meant to be released in 2001, but the label that produced it folded. In 2003 Lauper released a standards album called "At Last", and the critical praise that followed (including universal praise of her version of the classic title cut) thrust her into a new category of performers: legendary diva.
Suddenly instead of being looked at as an under-the-radar pop star of the past, Lauper became a massive musical icon. She toured for two years with Cher, and released the forgotten "Shine" album in 2003 (exclusively in Japan.)
Lauper was then cast in the iconic role of Pirate Jenny in a Broadway revitalization of the Brecht musical "The Threepenny Opera," for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2005 she released "The Body Acoustic," an album which took her clasic songs and re-imagined them as fully acoustic versions.
In 2007 lauper headlined "The True Colors Tour" and set out in support of GLBT rights. She performed topless at the "Broadway Bares" concert in New York City. Plans are in motion to release an album in early 2008 called "Saviour Fare".
Cyndi Lauper is best known for her hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
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To increase; to go up in number, volume or otherwise gain size. Coined in the television sitcom "Veronica's Closet" by character Perry Rollins (Dan Cortez) when attempting to use another word for 'increase' because he has so frequently used 'increase' to describe push-up bras in various advertisements he writes. In the context of the show, the main character Veronica challenges the legitimacy of the word; but it ultimately ends up spreading so quickly that she sees it used on the evening news.
The new inflatable Veronica's Closet bra will really help to acribitz the appearance of your bust size!
Our doppler radar indicates that rainfall will dramatically acribitz over the next 24 hours.