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v. The technique of using boiler plate text to advance a political agenda. "Astroturfing" is typically done by sending the same letter to every newspaper one can find. A certain number of newspapers will be duped into thinking that the letter is original and heartfelt when it is neither.

...is on the US White Male 14-29 demographic. Give men some credit. We can objectify women in any number of ways beyond gravity-defying boobs and tiny butts. There's a whole section of the population that maintains the height of female aesthetics is expresseed by the term badonkadonk. And there are plenty of fans of a biologically plausible, no-back-pain boob solution out there as well. If your game is so lame you need the resonance supplied by the ultimate in synthetic breasts, a G4 Spot and a waist the likes of which I haven't seen since -- well, okay, I saw one this afternoon at the office, and she was an archaeologist, wearing combat boots no less, but that's neither here nor there.

anyway, the point is that we've hit the point where not all male figures in these things look like the intimidating Testosterone fest of Duke Nukem; so why do the females have to be equally off-putting in their irreal sexuality?

oh yeah, right, 14-29 demographic.
So the solution is simple: require white males under thirty to purchase video games only when escorted by womyn or people of color. Come on guys, it's about the gameplay. If you want to just beat your joystick, teh intardnet awaits, with every kind of objectionable objectification.

Why don't they invent one even more useful to:
* Detect when women are horny
* Detect when a woman has had enough to drink and will sleep with almost anyone
* Detect when a woman has just broken up with a boy friend, and wants to 'show him' by sleeping with another man..
* Warn you when YOU are drunk and hitting on the boss's wife at a party
* One that shows she's gonna sleep with you, and not just leeching drinks off you at the bar

rob akimow, read this its interesting http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ADD &r=d

I always felt like the bigger message in 1984 was Newspeak and the control of public opinion, while the spying equipment was just there to set the mood.

It's kind of ironic, because people seem to always point to the newest government monitoring program and pull out that word "Orwellian," but no one mentions Crimestop when they watch a crowd laugh at a Bush rally where a man can make a joke about flip-flopping and simultaneously allege that the justification for his decisions are both upstanding while at the same time faulty because of bad intelligence. Or he can say that his justifications were never solely disarmament, but also freedom for Arabs. And he can say this to a crowd with a generally disfavorable view towards Arabs. He can have them nod in support of renewing the PATRIOT Act so that the FBI can spy on mosques and detain Arabs indefinitely on immigration violations, and he can immediately have them cheer for sacrifice of 1,500 American lives in the name of freeing Arabs.

I consider that to actually be the most eerie and Orwellian situation I've ever experienced. Or even read about.

So, in order to click while scrolling, do you have to give the touchpad "The Shocker"?

I've written up a Tech Tip that recounts my experiences and provides advice for the n00b.

You wouldn't want to teach a n00b--at least, if you distinguish between the n00b that refuses to learn and the newb that is honestly beginning his career.

Side note: Doesn't the poster's definition for contractor sound a lot like that of a one-night stand?

I've written up a Tech Tip that recounts my experiences and provides advice for the n00b.

You wouldn't want to teach a n00b--at least, if you distinguish between the n00b that refuses to learn and the newb that is honestly beginning his career.

Side note: Doesn't the poster's definition for contractor sound a lot like that of a one-night stand?

I've written up a Tech Tip that recounts my experiences and provides advice for the n00b.

You wouldn't want to teach a n00b--at least, if you distinguish between the n00b that refuses to learn and the newb that is honestly beginning his career.

Side note: Doesn't the poster's definition for contractor sound a lot like that of a one-night stand?

fanboy:

A passionate fan of various elements of geek culture (e.g. sci-fi, comics, Star Wars, video games, anime, hobbits, Magic the Gathering, etc.), but who lets his passion override social graces.

And Richard Simmons accused Charlton Heston of being "way too gay."

The politically correct term is "homersexual".

it doesn't learn how to roshambo

It's a starcraft reference.

i think you'll find its a play on the phrase "k-rad".

There are plenty of meanings for a non-regular-slashdotter such as:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dupe
And http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dup e&defid=799405

Look, stylee is a perfectly cromulent word.

I guess it's for those that can't get a real one: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bad onkadonk&r=f

Urban Dictionary thinks so..

Urban Dictionary: Box

Oooooh....

heheheheheheheheh

Well chalk it up to a learning experience, bozo.

No one's going to spell out acronyms. That's what acronyms are for, is not fucking spelling it out. If you want someone to hold your hand, go back to AOL. Either that or learn to look shit up

You've got the most powerful information retrieval tool in history sitting at your fingertips, grow a fucking brain and use it.

Thomas Slattery seems to have other meanings and/or identity according to www.urbandictionary.com.....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tho mas+Slattery&defid=170525

1. Thomas Slattery

One that has a long face and is very very arrogant about picking girls (that are ugly) and about his sport and well being.

'Slattery' was boasting how he picked up some chick.

Source: Hugh Wilson, Jul 1, 2003

It is a colloquialism used by people who read and participate at fark.com. It's used here too on occasion.

I loved the term so much I adopted it as a synonym for "idiot".

Urban Dictionary

sure thats what i means, but it also means to kill, it also means a vinyl record check here http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wax &r=f the urban dictionary has many entries for wax, and isn't the point of slang that it is not the actual meaning of the word, thus there is NO really incorrect way to use a word if it is being used a slang?

FYI.

Forgot about the /. bug putting in spaces for the http lines. Here are those links again:
http://www.gorskys.com.au/ask/need-phone-sex-tips. html
http://www.sexuality.org/l/workers/phonesex.html
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pho ne+sex

As a concerned Cone of Death Survivor [Also known as Floridian (Floor-Id-e-an)], I'd like to express my desire to possibly work on some alternative plans to avert destruction of the planet. We here in Broward have often times been told "Naaah, that hurricane won't come anywhere near...oh, it turned. Yep, run for your lives, you've got 16 hours to get plywood, GO!"

Just a thought.

Speaking of abusing pubilic knowlege databases, there's a new entry on http://www.urbandictionary.com/.

Trollog - A specialized type of Internet Troll. These attention-craving creatures are convinced they have psychic powers, and spend most of their time trying to convince humans that their powers are real. Humans generally respond by discrediting and ridiculing the Trollog, which triggers the Trollog's innate troll behaviors. The Trollog will respond by SHOUTING at seemingly RANDOM intervals, to the POINT that the shouting is MEANINGLESS. When they strike, they prefer to target the human's family, rather than attacking the human directly, as Trollogs have a cowardly disposition. Trollogs insist that they are allied with an army of civil lawyers. However, the only time a lawyer has ever been spotted with a Trollog is in criminal court. The Trollog also has the magical power to create mirror images of itself. The Trollog uses this power to unleash a cacophony of arguments, all claiming support of its desperate belief that it has psychic powers. Trollogs have no psychic powers.

A textbook example of a Trollog can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollog

I think a multi-language Urban Dictionary for slang would be far more useful.

It's SFW, BTW, OMGROFLBBQ!!1*.

*yeah, I know, no need.

That's what you get for expecting a razor-sharp scan of a picture of fuzz.

No hay nada de homophobia, solo en *tu* cabeza. Es claro que tu eres una puta. Para la implicaccion de "vendeja", necesitas que hablar con tu dueño. No puedes piensar en ingles, ni en español. México Mayor le da la bienvenida con un puño duro para sus piernas abiertas, pájarita.

Oh crap, why did I bother. I'm even lame at being a lame troll. I also work in a cubicle. Help.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rus ty+trombonePersonally, I like definitions 2 and 10

BtW.....FIRST pOsT!!!!!!! I love it when CowboyNeal's MOM GIVES me a RUSTY TROMBONE!!!!!!!

(imagines Ken being swarmed by thousands of tiny Nancies....)

Look it up

Too bad she's narsty.

Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start

This is why the plural use of the word internet by George W. Bush makes sense.

Please vote for natrium's's entry and against stupidity.

Damn, I was hoping it would say that he's gotten the most "spam javellined" man on earth award. He deserves it. ;-)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coc kchoker

You forgot Poland!

There's a spac version? Explains a lot!

And how is Marvel planning on preventing users of their own future game from creating a BattyMan

Now there's an idea, Batty Man, the world's first homosexual super-hero!

Most people use it in the context of someone who is deliberately screwing things up for other people, similar to the word asshole. For example, "It was working great until the asshats got a hold of it and ruined it."

Another defition of asshat is "One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat".

Go to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ass hat has a few other definitions of Asshat.

Source: Urban Dictionary

xboxen

n. pl. The plural form of xbox.

One word: telefrags

* why yes, I have nothing better to do today having already voted for the doosh bag ;-)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ric er&r=d

There's a list of current possible definitions of the slang term "ricer." You'll notice most mention modifications that don't actually make the car faster, and many mention that a car doesn't have to be Japanese to be considered rice in popular culture, now.

The Track Dog is certainly not a ricer. It's a highly modified Mazda Miata that's used for racing and the promotion of Flyin' Miata performance parts. Because the car is actually fast (significantly faster than the stock version), it's not rice.

Or maybe he meant what he wrote.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nig ging

Well, a mile will certainly help you go toothing. ;)