Carl Willis's definitions

thunderbolt

n. Nickname for the electric chair.

Out at the state pen at midnight, Big Willie's gonna ride the thunderbolt.

by Carl Willis December 1, 2004

good hustle

n. A fine effort. This phrase is in the vocabulary of most (if not all) school PE coaches and is commonly used to compliment a player or team for acceptable performance.

"Let's pack it on in, guys...good hustle, good hustle!!"

by Carl Willis February 6, 2005

spamvertise

v. (1) To advertise products or services via unsolicited, bulk email (spam).

(2) To abuse a particular Internet resource--such as a domain name--by spamming, frequently contributing to a blacklisting or loss of value of that resource.

(1) Those Russians are spamvertizing a penis pump that is guaranteed to "make yu0r c-0ck tre-mendous."

(2) B1gPen1sNow.com is a spamvertized domain name; don't buy it.

by Carl Willis November 12, 2004

westinghouse

verb. westinghoused; westinghousing: fr. name of American inventor George Westinghouse. To put a person to death in an electric chair (which in early embodiments were operated from an AC power supply). The attachment of Mr. Westinghouse's name to the electric chair was a form of negative advertizing devised by Thomas Edison.

"The Rosenbergs were westinghoused at Sing Sing Prison yesterday for treason, and the bodies were sent to the morgue in nine-dollar pine caskets."

by Carl Willis January 19, 2006

old sparky

n. Nickname for the electric chair, particularly that in the state of Florida.

"Any nigga that pop a cap on a cop gonna take a one-way ride on Old Sparky."

by Carl Willis December 1, 2004

corium

n. The lava of molten (or previously molten) nuclear fuel resulting from a reactor meltdown. A rather unpleasant material.

Following the meltdown at Springfield Unit I, Mr. Burns hired local schoolchildren at minimum wage to shovel the corium out of the reactor building.

by Carl Willis February 27, 2006

different

adj. Euphemism applying to persons who have a handicap, particularly a behavioral or mental inadequacy. Can be found in the phrase "differently abled," which means (let's face it), "disabled." To be "different" in the most widely-used sense of the term is a bad thing; it means you are retarded. Cf. special, short bus.

Kid: Bobby is incredibly stupid and clumsy, Mr. Mackey.

School Counselor: Son, let's not think those bad thoughts! Bobby is...different. He's just a little "differently abled" from you or I, m'kay? We can't use our language to take water out of his bucket.

Kid: You mean to say he is retarded and rides the short bus.

Counselor: Now, "retarded" is a word that they used back in Germany in the 1930's, but we have moved past that now haven't we...

by Carl Willis August 25, 2004