Friday, August 22, 2008

Porn Bros

Usage:
Term of endearment used to describe the relationship between two people who share their collections of pornography with each other.

Origins:
Term I came up with when I was in highschool to describe such a relationship with my best friend at the time. It's always awkward... at first.

Monday, August 06, 2007

Pencil-dropper

Usage:
What you call someone when they callously and/or hastily drop something on a counter or table top after you take the time to courteously hand it to them in the first place.

Origins:
One of the myriad of things I came up with after years of frustration in the service industry. Mostly due to trying to pick up customers' credit cards off of counter tops with no fingernails. Why can't they just hand me their card like a normal human being? Dammit! But, I digress.

Wrench-thrower

Usage:
What you call someone when they are constantly doing things, consciously or sub-consciously, that slow you, or anything you are working very hard on, down.

Origins:
Came up with this after seeing this idea demonstrated in many animated cartoons from the 50s: antagonist throws a wrench into the hero's large and industrious machine in order to slow it down or destroy it completely.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Mid-dece

Usage:
Used to convey a distinct level of dissatisfaction and/or disapproval. There are 5 purely subjective levels of "dece." They are as follows (in order from completely unacceptable to mildy bothersome): Lower-dece, Lower to mid-dece, Mid-dece, Mid to upper-dece, and Upper-dece.

Origins:
I started saying it after i heard a colleague of mine, Jake, saying it all the time. According to him it originated from the drunken slurrings of his friend, D.star, one night at a party they both attended. She explained, later, that "dece" is short for decent.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Low blow to the afro below!

Usage:
Used when exclaiming your concent and/or approval to a tragedy you've witnessed (or are in the act of witnessing).

Origins:
I know it's hard to believe but, I made this up in grade school. If you can't figure this one out on your own then there's a pretty good chance you, yourself, are probably still in grade school (or, at least, think/wish you still are/were).

Geez la-frickin-weeze!

Usage:
Used when trying to concisely express amazement, awe, surprise, disgust, disappointment, anger, and generally most any other emotional reaction.

Origins:
A bizarrely modified version of the more commonly used phrase, "Gees-Louise" -- thanks to my dad who has uttered this phrase, a seemingly countless number of times, all of my life. It was just a matter of time before I started saying it as much as he does (which is waaaaaaay too often).

Did you break it? It's broken. You broke it. It's broken because you broke it. You're broken.

Usage:
Used when trying to make someone feel much worse for making a less-than-trivial mistake.

Origins:
I was once curious about how fast I could incite as much guilt as possible in the shortest amount of time. After several successful inflictions this phrase has now become a proud new addition to my verbal arsenal of campy belittlements.

Save, close, burn!

Usage:
Used when trying to rush someone.

Origins:
Originated from trying to get my collegue, Jai, to hurry up and finish what he was working on so I could burn a CD on his computer. I told him several times that he should hurry up, save his work, close the application he was using and then burn my CD. Repeating the request took too long so I condensed it down to "Save, close, burn."