n. Literally a freedman; hence, one who is in bondage to his passions.
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An informal way of saying “brother.”
Expression. The artful response to someone's attempt at assistance that's akin to receiving a single raisin as payment for winning a chocolate factory.
(also: shame on you)
(also: shame on you)
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it
(also: error)
(also: error)
adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon — that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
The man who writes in Saxon
Is the man to use an ax on.
—Judibras
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The man who writes in Saxon
Is the man to use an ax on.
—Judibras
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a wonderfully obscene and versatile hand gesture consisting of a balled fist save for one raised middle finger, knuckles facing the target of your ire.
symbolically represents a visiting ambassador from a faraway land rich in all the ***loves*** I don't give.
symbolically represents a visiting ambassador from a faraway land rich in all the ***loves*** I don't give.
piece of the former yugoslavia, and formerly united with the czech republic
artists andy warhol and steve ditko came from slovak immigrant families, suggesting that this is mostly a place people come from rather than go to
artists andy warhol and steve ditko came from slovak immigrant families, suggesting that this is mostly a place people come from rather than go to
A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.
(also: suicidal novelists)
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(also: suicidal novelists)
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In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
O, what's the loud uproar assailing
Mine ears without cease?
'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing
The horrors of peace.
Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it —
Would marry it, too.
If only they knew how to do it
'Twere easy to do.
They're working by night and by day
On their problem, like moles.
Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray,
On their meddlesome souls!
—Ro Amil
(also: war)
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O, what's the loud uproar assailing
Mine ears without cease?
'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing
The horrors of peace.
Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it —
Would marry it, too.
If only they knew how to do it
'Twere easy to do.
They're working by night and by day
On their problem, like moles.
Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray,
On their meddlesome souls!
—Ro Amil
(also: war)
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a love-shape comprised of line segments AB and CB, but not AC
a prank where you forcibly submerge someone's head into a shallow ceramic pool of rushing water for several seconds
seafaring gentlemen of the nordic persuasion circa the ninth and tenth centuries, who made their living pillaging and raiding and reaving and so on
today remembered either as savage unwashed brutes or as admirable noble savage types (mostly by fans of heavy metal)
today remembered either as savage unwashed brutes or as admirable noble savage types (mostly by fans of heavy metal)
Among the Greeks a coffin which, being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art.
(also: art)
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(also: art)
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n. Lucid intervals in a disordered life.
The Judge:
You lazy dog! all industry you shirk
As 'twere a crime — why don't you go to work?
The Tough Citizen:
I'm always planning to, but, may it please your
Honor, I do never get the leisure.
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The Judge:
You lazy dog! all industry you shirk
As 'twere a crime — why don't you go to work?
The Tough Citizen:
I'm always planning to, but, may it please your
Honor, I do never get the leisure.
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Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
(also: Socrates)
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(also: Socrates)
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(1858 – 1947) German theoretical physicist who developed a theory of Quantum physics and discovered energy quanta.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: max planck quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: max planck quotes)
n. The end of night and dawn of dejection. The morning was discovered by a Chaldean astronomer, who, finding his observation of the stars unaccountably interrupted, diligently sought the cause and found it. After several centuries of disputation, morning was generally accepted by the scientific as a reasonable cause of the interruption and a constantly recurrent natural phenomenon.
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One of the most plentiful meats around. For some it is a dietary staple. Others a foreign delicacy.
(n.) the shorthand way of saying television.
that we even need a shorthand version of such a trivial word is indicative of how this invention has damaged us as a society.
that we even need a shorthand version of such a trivial word is indicative of how this invention has damaged us as a society.
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join