rounding for effect

Rounding a price downward if you want it to appear inexpensive, but upward if you want it to appear expensive.

Joe, you should buy one, they're only, like 2 bucks!
Joe: They're $2.99, what a major rounding for effect you just pulled!

by BillyBuggy September 8, 2018

polltoral college

A way of predicting the winner by combining the results from each of the major polling sources.

Today's news predicted the presidential winner using what we might call the "polltoral college."

by BillyBuggy November 7, 2016

that don't plug the hole

The standard reply to someone pointing out that the female you are interested in is married.

Bob: What are you looking at her for?
Joe: She's attractive.
Bob: Did you know she's already married.
Joe: Well, that don't plug the hole.

by BillyBuggy May 19, 2016

bomber pilot

When a male is standing up peeing, playing bomber pilot is the fun act of rotating back and forth trying to cut a piece of toilet paper in half with the stream (of bombs).

After my mom took a leak, she usually didn't flush, so the next of us kids got to play bomber pilot with a lot of targets.

by BillyBuggy July 29, 2009

hindsighter

Someone who is quick to make a suggestion about what to do or what he would have done in a situation that has already happened.

Bill: Yea, I opened my car window and forgot that my application was sitting on the seat, and it blew right out the window.

Dan: What I always do is before opening my window is look around and see if there is anything that can blow out.

Bill: (Thinking) What a hindsighter you are.

by BillyBuggy March 30, 2011

electoral college paradox

People think that it is unbelievable if a presidential candidate wins in the electoral college but has 5 to 10 percent LESS popular vote. This definition shows an absurd and extreme, but illuminating example of how the loser in the presidential election can have an arbitrarily high percentage of the popular votes compared to the winner, i.e., way more then 5 or 10 percent.
Suppose there are 540 electoral votes. Divide the states into two groups, one having 271 votes, the other 269. Suppose in the "271" states, only 1 person in each state votes Democrat, 0 Republican. Suppose in the "269" states, 0 vote Democrat, millions Republican. Then by the electoral college majority, the democrats win but the Republicans have a million times more votes than the Democrats.

In the 2012 presidential election, it initially appeared that we might have an electoral college paradox. But the Democratic popular vote came back up and it was avoided.

by BillyBuggy November 9, 2012

asympton

Someone who spreads a virus to many other people because they are aymtomatic (or presymtomatic) and put their personal freedom ahead of the need for social distancing. (See also covidiot and Covid-19)

Look at those idiotic asymptons at Mardi Gras and Daytona Beach.

by BillyBuggy April 9, 2020