Downstrike's definitions

Disobedient Computer Syndrome

A pandemic malady afflicting most anyone who uses hardware, software, and an operating system together. Add a network operating system or proprietary Internet connection software, and you have an acute case on your hands.

Abbreviation: DCS

Ever since I installed SP2, this blasted PC exhibits DCS by lipping off, (see lip off}, at me about the stupidest things instead of doing the task I gave it.

by Downstrike September 13, 2004

Unemployment Office

A state agency where the unemployed go to get unemployment benefits, under the pretense that they are looking for work.

To go along with the pretense of the unemployed, bureaucrats usually try to get peeps to call the Unemployment Office the opposite of what it is, with euphemisms such as Employment Development Department, in California.

by Downstrike November 2, 2006

Heart Of Gold

(fiction) One-of-kind starship, shaped like an extremely large white running shoe, powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive.

At the heart of the Heart Of Gold is a heart of gold.

by Downstrike May 19, 2004

Wish You Were Here

An album by Pink Floyd which gave birth to New Age Music. See also, Atom Heart Mother and Meddle.

You shoulda heard the Quadraphonic version of Wish You Were Here! It would blow your mind, man!

by Downstrike May 29, 2004

Windows Downdate

The most prolific source of computer trojans online, frequently euphemized as Windows Update.

Windows Downdate frequently prompts the user to "update" Windows/MSN Messenger to version 4.7 even though version 6 or 7 is already installed.

After installing SP2, Windows Downdate wanted me to update a bunch of things that I updated before SP2, so I don't know if SP2 downdated them, or if Windows Downdate wanted to downdate them after SP2 updated them.

by Downstrike September 14, 2004

Ginger ale

Vernor's or nobody's.

Vernor's is the ginger ale that tastes like you're drinking a ginger snap.

by Downstrike May 26, 2004

Entertainment

Anything that causes enjoyment. Requires an audience, or there is no one to enjoy it. That which is enjoyable varies from audience to audience, so the precise definition of entertainment is a variable dependent upon the audience.

There is no entertainment on the planet Venus because there is no one to enjoy what ever is happening there.

If it wasn't for some very strange people, most of what is on television would not be entertainement.

by Downstrike May 22, 2004