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The Great Papyrus is the tall skeleton in Undertale and is known for his incredible spaghetti. But be careful, or else his brother will come and fuck you up
Papyrus: Fear not, human, for it is I, the Great Papyrus!
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An after school hotspot for over privileged new york city private school kids. On weekends, crowds come to enjoy the fresh air and to enjoy a picnic, cocktail or a joint.
A: Yo, what are you doing after school?
B: I'm going to the Great Lawn. You should come- everyone will be there
The day preceding Good Friday. It is celebrated by consuming copious amounts of alcohol and singing songs of merriment. Great Thursday typically results in a hangover so fierce it takes 3 days to resurrect ones self.
Ryan: "hey Blair do you work on Good Friday?"
Blair: "no, i plan on drinking on Great Thursday and having a 3 day hangover."
a chad with the ball size of infinite universes. a pinnacle peak of human and or extra terrestrial knowledge. known for his mass murder of furries and relentless punches more powerful than the tightest supernovas in this expansive universe. no furries stand up to him and his power can change the reality and time of all furries here. if there is a planet of furries, v1nce will travel there to an instant and turn it into his empirical castle of chadness . he will leave no furries alive and on this observable universe. furries in other universes, watch out.
Hello! let's bingewatch v1nce the great.
oh you mean the guy with the ball power of 10 supernovas?
yes!
hes so good my dad came back with milk to watch him!
my mom wants to do sexual intercourse with him some day
he gets all the girls, even the little ones!
ikr!
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*noun*; global economic collapse; in the USA, this began in 1929 and persisted to 1939; most other industrialized countries emerged from the Depression earlier.
During the Great Depression, unemployment reached over 25% in the USA, and those who had jobs suffered severe wage cuts. The index of industrial output fell over 53% from its high in July '29, while trade and capital markets plummeted to mere fractions of their former levels.
*What Happened*
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Many people imagine that the Stock Market Crash (Oct '29) and the Great Depression are the same thing. However, it took another three years for employment, bank failures, and declining industrial output to run its course.
In 1929 the USA had 25,000 banks. By 1933, 10,000 had either failed or been merged with another to avoid failure. At this time there was no FDIC, so depositors mostly lost their money.
Another phenomenon was plunging prices: the consumer price index fell 25% during the first four years. For businesses, this was a disaster, and forced them to lay off millions.
The Great Depression made farms in much of the Southwest unviable; ruined farmers fled to California or Washington, and their abandoned farms succumbed to the Dust Bowl. This was the single largest ecological disaster in recorded history.
*How It Happened*
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There are basically three main explanations for the Great Depression.
1. During the 1920's, there was a huge and growing disparity between rich and poor. The incomes of the great majority rose much more slowly than productivity, but this was masked by increased borrowing. People were able to borrow because the market value of their assets was larger than what they owed; but when a rash of defaults occurred, then the market value of assets plummeted, and people owed more than their assets were worth. Businesses had to lay off workers, which further reduced aggregate demand.
2. The Great Depression began as another minor downturn, but was made much worse by the failure of the Federal Reserve to respond adequately (see Milton Friedman & Anna Schwartz). While the Fed reduced interest rates, prices fell even faster, so real interest rates soared. This made a quick recovery impossible.
3. The financial markets (combined with Fed supervision) distributed capital badly; for example, speculative ventures in growing wheat in the Great American Desert, real estate in Florida, and so on. When this arrangement of productive resources failed, it constituted an extremely large technology shock. Subsequent policy intervention tended to withhold capital and labor from the most productive enterprises, making the depression deeper.
(Explanation 3 is the New Classical economics explanation; see Harold Cole & Lee Ohanian.)
*Roosevelt Administration*
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected by a landslide in 1932, and inaugurated 4 March 1933. The White House immediately used emergency powers to close, restructure, and re-open the nation's banks. During the first 100 days of the FDR administration, Congress passed the New Deal which greatly eased the impact of the Depression on the hardest hit.
The New Deal did not significantly hasten the end of the Great Depression, because it was too small to provide a meaningful fiscal stimulus. However, it did introduce many important programs to help those affected by poverty. The Depression had ended in most of the world by 1937; the US was mostly recovered by 1939, when World War 2 broke out.
The NBER business cycle chronology dates the start of the Great Depression in August 1929. For this reason many have said that the Depression started on Main Street and not Wall Street. Be that as it may, the stock market plummeted in October of 1929. The bursting of the speculative bubble had been achieved and the economy was now headed in an ominous direction.
Randall Parker, "An Overview of the Great Depression" (2002)
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1. A frightening new historical era that began in 2008 with the crash of world economies and the simultaneous collapse of trust in governing institutions. 2. A wrenching shift in human society resulting from 50 years of unsustainable development, over-population, environmental degredation, economic injustice and rapid resource depletion. 3. The growing realization that sophisticated "financial engineering" cannot solve the growing list of real-world problems.
The Great Disruption could be the biggest challenge in human history since the collapse of the Roman Empire in 466 A.D.
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An exclaimation of sudden joy, and/or discovery.
Famously quoted by Gandalf in The Hobbit
Great Elephants!" said Gandalf, "you are not at all yourself this morning-you have never dusted the mantel- piece!
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