bozo

1. n. A specific cartoon TV clown from the 50s and 60s, originally in B&W.

2. n. Any old clown.

3. n. Annoying person.

4. n. A chat or message board troll.

5. n. A feature of About and Delphi Forums, and some other Prospero Technologies message boards that allows a moderator to surreptitiously silence a bozo (3).

6. v. To use the bozo feature on a message board; p.t., bozoed. Bozoed is also the adj. describing the condition of one subjected to the bozo feature.

Don't obsess about Bozo the Clown in a Sci Fi forum, you bozo, or you'll get bozoed!

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blood-sucker

A parasite. One who uses others.

I'm not that blood-sucker's friend! He doesn't have friends, just distant acquaintances and people that he's used up.

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PIC

Acronym for Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier, refers to a seven-digit code that identifies your long distance carrier to your LEC, or local phone service company.

Get your PIC frozen, or some unscrupulous phone company with high rates can slam you!

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double talk

Otherwise unnecessary verbiage added in order to confuse the listener, such as using a double negative to make a statement mean the opposite of what it would otherwise mean. See also, doublespeak.

"I didn't say I would not do it; I said I wouldn't not do it."

"That's double talk!"

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tubular

Late 70s and 80s slang, adj. As groovy and as it gets. Too cool to be just a passing fad, like saying tubular turned out to be.

Derived from a way cool 1973 album, titled Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield.

Vals picked up the word and that was the death of saying tubular. If it weren't for so many Vals saying, like tubular that other people associated it with Valspeak, people wouldn't have become afraid to continue saying tubular when Valspeak went out of style.

Even now, Peeps are still grooving to Tubular Bells, and they figured out by the 80s that it wasn't just a passing fad, so anything groovy enough to outlast a fad became tubular. It's too bad saying tubular wasn't tubular.

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devotion

Loyalty motivated by love.

Devotion is an important part of a happy relationship.

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linguistic intolerance

A symptom of bigotry in which a bigot insists that the spelling, grammar, or pronunciation of other languages, cultures, or subcultures are inferior, or simply wrong.

Some linguistically intolerant Jews and Muslims, such as the late Sheikh Ahmed Deedat complain about what they call, the J Sickness, in which most European languages substitute the letter J for the letter Y when transliterating names from ancient texts, such as:

Joel for Yael
Judah for Yehuda
Joshua for Yeheshua
Joseph for Yusuf
Jonah for Yunus
Jesus for Yesus or Yeshua
Jehovah for Yehowa or Yahweh

Since J is the letter used to produce the Y sound in most European languages, this complaint is an example of petty linguistic intolerance. Sheikh Deedat also rather amusingly blamed the "J" sickness on Jehovah's Witnesses, as if they, in the 20th century had had the power to change the way Europeans spelled names in medieval times, so it's difficult to determine whether his bigotry was against Christians in general, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Europeans. (Source: www.jamaat.net/name/name3.html)

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