Downstrike's definitions

MLM

Abbreviation for Multi-Level Marketing, a business model in which marketers are paid commissions on the sales of other marketers that they recruit, as well as on their own sales. To qualify as MLM, the business plan must actually focus upon selling a marketable product or service.

Business and marketing n00bs frequently confuse MLM with pyramid schemes, a business model that focuses on paying bonuses for recruiting people, rather than commissions on sales, because the criminals who start pyramid schemes like to scam n00bs and flatter themselves by calling their schemes MLM. They may even pretend to operate an MLM business by forcing marketers to stockpile unmarketable products to pretend they are selling it.

Anyone who calls a pyramid scheme MLM helps the scammers trick their victims.

by Downstrike April 8, 2006

fiction

1. Not fact.

2. Entertainment.

3. Stories.

My favorite genre of fiction is Science Fiction.

by Downstrike May 22, 2004

fictionous

A fictitious word made up by people who don't know words like fictional and fictitious. The people making it up are probably fictional too.

There's no such word, so there's no valid example.

by Downstrike October 7, 2004

I'll try anything once

An expression of the adventurous attitude of the late 60s and early 70s.

I'll try anything once is the only proper response to try it, you'll like it.

by Downstrike October 16, 2004

Freudian slip

1. A verbal or written flub-up in which one says what one really meant, rather than what one meant to say, by accidentally adding or subtracting a word or substituting a similar word that means something that indicates what one really thinks. The phenomenon is named after Sigmund Freud, who first described it.

2. Sigmund Freud in exhibitionistic drag.

1. I didn't mean to say the math teacher was fat. It was only a Freudian slip that I said her triangle had a hippopotamus when I meant to say hypotenuse.

2. No RL example known. If you do see it, snap that Kodak moment and post it.

by Downstrike April 8, 2006

binary

adj. Arranged as pairs or counted by twos.

Pairs of stars or planets, such as the Earth and Moon, are called binary stars or planets.

by Downstrike May 23, 2004

roger-dee

Derived from military lingo term, roger, meaning confirmation.

CB slanguage dialect terminology; used synonymously with 10-4.

Roger-dee, cottonpicker!

by Downstrike May 29, 2004