(n.) a genre of frivolous entertainment intended to distract from mortality
n. One who worships at the shrine of his ancestral cell
(also: list of all isms)
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(also: list of all isms)
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sitting on a moving truck-car on a seat covered with hay not because you enjoy it but because you're not going to let fall pass by without once sitting on a moving truck-car on a seat covered with hay
A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
(also: time)
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(also: time)
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(n.) someone best left alone in a room with lots of beakers and chalkboards in the hopes that they'll accidentally figure out how to make nuclear weapons. or root beer. whichever.
Incredibly good Swedish band led by mathematician composer papa Emeritus IV. The names of other band members - the Nameless ghouls - are secret. Former lead guitarist Omega however, revealed his identity after leaving the bandand founding Magna Carta Cartel. Their music overcombines many different instruments, genres and effects
(also: Thobias Forge)
(also: Thobias Forge)
Consciousness of a brief immunity from something disagreeable.
Stunning events cast their shadows before.
—Scampbell
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Stunning events cast their shadows before.
—Scampbell
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Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
(n.) a chemical substance used to regulate one's more eccentric behaviors. no, booze does not count.
The Encyclopedia Galactica used to be the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom in the universe.
Wildly considered rather old fashioned, and pedestrian.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has already replaced the great Encyclopedia.
(also: wikipedia)
Wildly considered rather old fashioned, and pedestrian.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has already replaced the great Encyclopedia.
(also: wikipedia)
A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
(also: PHONOGRAPH)
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(also: PHONOGRAPH)
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The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell,
You will repent and join the Church, Parnell?
How needless! — Nick will keep you off the coals
And add you to the woes of other souls.
—Jomater Abemy
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Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell,
You will repent and join the Church, Parnell?
How needless! — Nick will keep you off the coals
And add you to the woes of other souls.
—Jomater Abemy
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(n.) a force that exists within a young girl's heart which can purportedly free her if sufficiently groovy
the leader of a nation lead by God
Something acting upon a magnet. (also: magnet)
The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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(v.) yes, a verb. magic is the universe alive. magic is no miracle (that is, no rarity), but precious all the same.
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join