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Shock and Love is that progressive political policy which seeks to use instances of crisis to further the betterment of mankind. It differs from the conservative policy of Shock and Awe which seeks to use the same instances to further empower the already powerful and to curtail the self evident liberties of the masses.
With the lives of three hundred million Americans at stake, the Obama administration, in a classic example of Shock and Love, was able to use the panic created by the flu pandemic to force Senate Republicans to do the right thing and confirm Kathleen Sibelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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noun: A combination of a feline meow and yawn.
Upon waking, Tabby and Calico greeted their human family with their purring, while Little Black Sunshine, slowly awakening from a deep slumber, stretched, twitched his whiskers, and then let out a long meyawn.
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The personification of the vast amount Tibetan Buddhist teaching available on the internet.
Since moving, I no longer have access to a guru, so I'll just go online and ask Lama Internet.
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In the future, owing to texting, tweeting and websites such as the Urban Dictionary, everyone and his brother will begin to coin phrases (such as "preemptive karma") and the person of the moment who finds himself atop Fortuna's Wheel of Elocution will be, for an instant, the cat's meow. Fifteen Minutes of Jive refers to such a scribbler's brief moment in the spotlight. As it has always done, language will then move on and the word of the moment will be replaced by yet another - only at a noticeably accelerated pace. This will of course lead to Jive Lag and Jivemire as well as Jivemires and a situation in which what was hip at, say, 9:15, will now be considered boorish by 9:35.
In the twenty-first century, the world did not seek out the cleverness of Oscar Wilde in the embodiment of a single individual, but instead sought to steep itself in a continuous omnipresent wit in which billions of individuals could, if only briefly, communally participate in being the life of the party and experience their clever moment in the sun: their fifteen minutes of jive .
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A noun used to denote speech such as "dagnabbit," "gosh dern," and "whippersnapper" stereotypically associated with cantankerous old men.
The cantankerous septuagenarian used the oldcootism of "You young whippersnapper" to address a neighborhood kid who had ventured onto his lawn.
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A lighthearted way of asking someone if an ongoing problem has yet been addressed. From a question asked President Barack Obama by his daughter, Malia, in regard to the disastrous 2010 British Petroleum / Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" the farmer's wife asked her husband after he came back from trying yet again to get the neighbor's horses out of the cornfield.
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A term denoting a female propagator of spam. It conveys a negative connotation. From spam + zilla (from the Japanese film monster Godzilla).
That girl's a regular spamzilla, the way she copy-pastes and posts every piece of spam she lays eyes on.