When the pilot lands your flight by slamming the plane on to deck as if to engage a tail hook to prevent rolling into the sea.
That carrier landing gave me whiplash.
A complicated experiment-gone-awry "solution".
Several hours later, Jeff realized that his "5-minute solution" was quickly turning into a science project that would take several days of effort and lots of external resources (and that still might not solve the original problem).
Cash for Clunkers (the latest attempt at jump-starting the economy by having the federal government guarantee a minimum trade-in value for certain cars).
J: How much did you get for your '94 Ford Exploder?
C: I got $4500 from C4C when I bought a new hybrid Escape.
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An otherwise nondescript person who pretentiously believes herself to be a geek, just because it's cool.
That suit's a VP of MIS at an insurance company and thinks he's the pied-piper of high-tech. Newsflash: ain't nobody can't see he's a geekster except his fellow wannabees.
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Short for "granola cruncher"
Chris: Why is Jan buying a used Civic instead of a new Prius?
Jo: Because she's a pragmatist, not a cruncher.
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Used as a term of friendly derision; common among people of Appalachian descent.
When Grandma saw that little Jeff had made a mess of the neatly stacked newspapers, she exclaimed "you little shitpot! I just spent an hour redding-up that room!"
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