The cinematic conceit of blowing shit up on a large scale, in slow motion and (usually) at sunset.
A portmanteau word employing the concept of the inevitable incendiary mayhem employed by uberhack Michael Bay in lieu of characters, a script or a a pube's-weight of reality.
A: Dude! Did you dig the plot in Transformers?
B: Hell, no! I was only there to watch the Bayhem!
or
A: I can't believe The Knight lays waste to Los Angeles at the end of Bruckheimer's remake of "The Seventh Seal."
B: Yeah, who needs Kierkegaardian themes on death and meaning when you can unleash total Bayhem?
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The cinematic conceit of blowing shit up on a large scale, in slow motion and (usually) at sunset.
A portmanteau word employing the concept of the inevitable incendiary mayhem employed by uberhack Michael Bay in lieu of characters, a script or a a pube's-weight of reality.
A: Dude! Did you dig the plot in Transformers?
B: Hell, no! I was only there to watch the Bayhem!
or
A: I can't believe The Knight lays waste to Los Angeles at the end of Bruckheimer's remake of "The Seventh Seal."
B: Yeah, who needs Kierkegaardian themes on death and meaning when you can unleash total Bayhem?
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A punning, portmanteau term for those members of the middle-classes who, having reached middle-age and moderate prosperity, have decided to embrace the notion of the "gentleman scholar" and broaden their academic horizons.
In this particular scenario, the victims believe that a subscription to New Scientist, the occasional viewing of Horizon and being able to tell exactly why Dr. Hawking is in his wheelchair gives them a peerless grasp of the scientific world.
Dr. A: How's work?
Dr. B: Meh.
Mr. C: Hey guys, did you check out the reports from the L.H.C.? I bet Jogesh Pati is worried about his unification theory right about now!
Dr.A: He knows we're biologists, right?
Dr.B: No clue, he's Sci-Curious. He thinks we all work in the same lab.
Urban metro or homosexual types who buy a second property in the countryside, usually within a two hour drive of Manhattan and preferably a half million dollar "fixer-upper."
Hudson Valley resident #1: What's with the new neighbors?
Hudson Valley resident #2: Bought the old stone barn up the road for half a million, gutted it and dropped another half mill having it re-done.
Hudson Valley resident #1: Yeah, pushed my property taxes through the roof. Shoulda' known when I saw a the $60,000 pick-up. Fuckin' Frillbillies
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A collective noun for the current eyeliner-bothering tweens who get all sulky when you call them, "Emo."
A: "Remember when Hot Topic was kinda' cool?"
B: "You mean that brief period in 1996 when the stores weren't jammed with credit-card-wielding Kohl Minors?"
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