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The second-leading source of antitrust, right on the heals of MyCrudSoft sWindles. Frequently euphemized as Network Solutions, Incorporated.
In 1999 and 2000 Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible held my domain name for ransom for seven months while I tried to transfer it to a different registrar, until I got the Better Business Bureau on their case.
by Downstrike September 13, 2004
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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
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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
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Bad News

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of Bad News, which obeys its own special laws.
The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by Bad New but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrive anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
by Downstrike May 20, 2004
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One-Hit-Wonder

A band or singer that everyone forgets about after their hit song runs its natural course into obscurity, because they can never get back onto the charts again. Most one-hit-wonders are that way because either they can't write their own songs, or their own songs are crap.

Crossover songs and artists are sometimes mistaken for One-Hit-Wonders, because listeners outside their genre don't know who they are. Anyone unfortunate enough to make this mistake is likely to be taken to task by numerous members of the artist's following, because it takes quite a good artist to pull off a crossover hit.
Your own songs just aren't going to cut it. Go find a hit song that no one else has covered in at least 20 years, so the teen audience will think it's new, and maybe you can be a One-hit-wonder.

Some One-Hit-Wonders:

Dean Friedman
Right Said Fred
Gary Numan
Soft Cell
Sammy Johns
The Reflections
The Electric Prunes
The Elegants
Bobby Dray
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
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Alt tag

N00b slang for the alt attribute of the HTML img tag. Usage indicates a probability that the person speaking doesn't know the difference between a tag and an attribute.
When people get persnickety with me, saying that my NiDEs don't have Alt tags, I get persnickety back at them, and tell them there's no such thing as an Alt tag, and that I'm not an SEO spammer, so I don't put alt attributes in NiDEs.
by Downstrike May 27, 2006
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hankey pankey

The performing magician's art of distracting the audience while surreptitiously playing tricks on them.
He kept distracting us with hankey pankey so we didn't notice how he pulled off the the stunts.
by Downstrike June 8, 2004
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