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dad: son, stop living in Elmo's world.
son : you mean, you want me to stop living underwater
dad: no, I said stop living in a your own disconnected from reality world. people living underwater at least have intelligent ideas partially connected to reality, but considered beyond eccentric in their historical zeitgeists. you, however, are beyond the Pale.
a complete disconnect from reality
dad: son, stop living in Elmo's world.
son : you mean, you want me to stop living underwater
dad: no, I said stop living in a your own disconnected from reality world. people living underwater at least have intelligent ideas partially connected to reality, but considered beyond eccentric in their socio-cultural and historical zeitgeists. you, however, are beyond the Pale.
( based on the basilisk's killing method in Harry Potter and The Chammber of Secret): verb: to kill someone, literally from fear followed by a heart attack, simply by staring them straight in the eyes
Even if you tried , you wouldn't be able to basilisk stare a criminal into admitting their guilt, even for a capital murder case
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(based on the Basilisk's killing method in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ): verb- to kill someone simply by staring at them in the eyes
even with the best of intentions in mind, you can't basilisk stare someone into admitting their guilt, even for a capital crime; you can hope for a confession and wait for a jury to sentence them to death
to torch your own property in order to obtain insurance money
according to what I heard, to rape the barn is an easy way to make money in Putin's Russia
to torch your own property in order to obtain insurance money
according to what I heard, to rape the barn is an easy way to make money in Putin's Russia
(verb): to scholarly define using a complicated, convoluted vocabulary) a word or concept in order to manipulate the politically passive and/or ignorant masses of our mediacratic society.
N.B: not to be confused under any circumstances with the verb to institutionalize, i.e to stow away, under lock and key, someone in an (in most cases mental or penal) institution !
boy: father, what is Communism?
father: it's a scholarly term. As far as scholarly terms are concerned, even if you are a pundit, any one can, in our own mediacracy, try to institutionalise any term they want.
boy: So Karl Marx was the first to institutionalise the term communism?
father: yes.