pro-cyclicality

A downward spiral

A nice/political/doublespeak way of defining something (see financial crisis) in a positive-feedback loop heading for destruction. An impending shitstorm

from:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5614520.ece

It came as Jean-Claude Trichet pointed the finger at financial markets calling on them to refrain from putting pressure on banks to hold on to more capital as that was aggravating the economic downturn.

The European Central Bank President said: “It is not our position, and we will do all that we can to pass the message that we are not in agreement with that. That would augment the pro-cyclicality of the present period.”

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stonehenging

1.) The activity of setting multiple couches pointing upwards and/or putting even more couches horizontally sat on top of those. Frequently performed done in the communal rooms of college living quarters.

Widely practiced at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN, Most likely originating in the Kappa Sigma house.

Stonehenging does not break anything, per se -- though the almost inevidable result is that someone drunker, clumsier, or more angry will pass by a stonehenged room and begin letting entropy run it's course.

2.) The process by which you set someone up for disaster without actually doing anything yourself.

1.)
Ralph and I were stonehenging Tau Iota Tau last night. It was rad. When I see couches, I think of duplos for grown-ups.

-Yeah, and then sandy came in real sloppy and went to town knocking everthing down

2.) Dude, you totally stonehenged me by telling everyone to smash bottles on my driveway. Now I can't move my car, and my feet won't stop bleeding.

Funerave

An all-night strobe light filled celebration of the life of a lost one. Frequently funeraves include cheesy yet somber (see terrorcore) trance music, glow sticks, black clothing (which sets the somber tone of the evening by not reacting so vividly to black lights), refreshments, a eulogy delivered by Armin Van Buuren, and the various array of substances that may have contributed to the (untimely) demise of the person being mourned.

Ralph: Hey Megan. Are you going to church at 5:00?

Megan: No, I went to a funerave last night and fufilled my Sunday obligation. After hearing something from the Gospel of Mark and Psalm 23, the X started flowing. They were in the shape of caskets! It was so sad, and totttally ballin' outta control.