Braveheart's thirst for blood's definitions

mode of failure

1. When talking about machines, the way it dies/becomes permanently unusable/gets bricked/gets broken.
2. Refers to the method by which anything/anyone with a fixed life span meets their doom.

1. An overclocked CPU's mode of failure is usually overheating.
1. If the blown engine's mode of failure is a cracked connecting rod, you should modify the connecting rod to make it stronger.
2. Instead of being stabbed with a spear, a common mode of failure for Presidents of the US who die in office is being shot with a firearm.
2. "In the 1st Millennium, a common mode of failure for Popes was martyrdom."

by Braveheart's thirst for blood August 20, 2006

pope on a rope

A Pope that has or is in the process of being martyred by means of hanging by the neck with a noosed rope. Compare Christ on a stick.

Back in the first few centuries of Papacy many times you saw a pope on a rope.

by Braveheart's thirst for blood March 24, 2007

pagant

A beauty pageant held in a forest, usually around the end of daylight savings time, where everyone featured is required to arrive there naked. A portmanteu of pagan and pageant (however, some pagans are less cycle-accurate and wear clothes)

"Tira and Morgana went to the pagant and almost forgot to not wear clothes." "After receiving their WICcan checks, Nefeteri and Hrothgar decided to go to the pagant to spend the money on Burger King scented incense and candles."

by Braveheart's thirst for blood January 13, 2007

microwaveablelessness

Lacking the ability to be safely be heated by a microwave oven. Things that have microwaveablelessness include 12 oz. soda cans, pressurized cans of R-12, chicken eggs in their shells, sealed film canisters filled with water, dry ice bombs, mercury thermometers, electronics, and lithium-ion batteries.

Saddam learned the hard way about the microwaveablelessness of a camping propane cylinder. He almost lost his house.

by Braveheart's thirst for blood April 1, 2007

Deadlock

A situation between 2 people where each is waiting for the other's task to finish, so nothing gets done. When you walk down a narrow hallway, and you go to one side so they can get by, then the other person goes to the other side, blocking you again...that is deadlock. Deadlock is also when you go shopping with your mom in a strip mall and you don't say where to meet each other, so you go looking in store A while your mom looks for you in store B, then you get the idea that she's looking in store B, so you go there at the same she decides to look in store A. Named after the computer processing term of the same name.

I always get deadlock when walking down the aisles at the convenience store, they are so narrow.

by Braveheart's thirst for blood January 5, 2006

firewall builder

1. A webmaster or moderator who chooses to avoid contact with every single other person simply because they had a bad experience with exactly one bad apple. Usually very lazy and refuses to answer questions about their website, or in the case of moderators, cancels/censors posts about things they disagree with just because he wants to be a jerk about it. They have very few friends, because they build a wall around themselves. Often a firewall builder takes a popular domain name and makes it a nothing site.

Don't bother e-mailing Legolas about his website, he's a firewall builder. Why are you posting praise to God to an AOL user? That's a sure way to create a firewall builder.

by Braveheart's thirst for blood January 3, 2006

Hat-Trick

In hick country where there's no public transportation, you have no car, and your parents would rather go to Guantanamo Bay to be tortured than drive you anywhere...this is when you have breakfast, lunch, and dinner at 3 different restaurants (not at home) in different locations in the same day. An incredibly rare event worthy of taking your hat off and saluting.

Brent rarely gets to go out to eat, but today he had the Hat-Trick, going to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, Burger King for lunch and the 99 restaurant for dinner.

by Braveheart's thirst for blood March 24, 2007