watergate

v., transitive

Taping over a door latch to prevent the door from locking. This verb is named in honor of the Watergate scandal, where this behavior was exhibited.

Who Watergated the doors?

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celebrity deathsave

being saved from disgrace, humiliation, or other shameful circumstances that would lead to resignation by having a number of celebrity deaths divert media attention away from oneself

Governor Mark Sanford would've had to resign over all those hiking trips if it wasn't for Michael Jackson dying. What a celebrity deathsave.

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ackpth

An exclamation formed by combining "ack" and "pth;" used to express surprise, alarm, disgust, or disgusted alarmed surprise; a scream conjoined with a sputter

1. Ackpth! I'm a dumbass. I forgot my homework.
2. Ackpth! My Xbox 360 stopped working!
3. Ackpth! My phone's gone missing.

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miserable user

"Miserable User" is the name of a hack for Virtual Bulletin message boards. An admin can set a poster to that status to encourage the poster to leave the board.

Here is what happens to a miserable user:

- There is a random 60-120 second delay each time they click on a link.
- 90% of times they have no search engine acccess.
- 75% of the times they get the server too busy error.

If they don't get the server too busy error:
- 50% of the times they may get a blank page
- 30% of the times they may get forwarded to the forum main page
- 20% of the time they may be able to see the page they asked for.

Miserable User is a fate worse than permabanning.

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Throw your hat over the wall

When you throw your hat over the wall, you're committing to doing something. The phrase is derived from what you would do before you climb over a wall - you throw the hat over to the other side, so it doesn't fall off while you are climbing.

"throw your hat over the wall" example:

JFK himself. When he was in office, he stood before the world and promised them a man on the moon within 10 years. Thing is, nobody had started working on a space program at that point. JFK had no data to back up his claims, no insight into the practicality of space travel. But you know what he had?

The man had sac. The man had the sac to stand before the world and say “Yo, yo get this! We’re going to the moon.”

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advertunity

An opportunity for product placement in a mass media production.

Corporate sponsors of TV shows force their products into the show all the time, exploiting every possible advertunity.

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p/fucker

A student taking a class on a pass/fail, or satisfactory/unsatisfactory, grading basis. Such a student can get away with putting very little effort into a class.

Yeah, we're all p/fuckers. We're a pocket of incompetence in the back of the classroom.

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