Duckbutt's definitions

Daughtery Principle

The Daughtery Principle, named after American football coach Duffy Daughtery (1915-1987) of Michigan State University, states that: “A tie is like kissing your sister.” While both evolutionary psychology theory and sociological theory would predict that this familial phenomenon would lead to osculatory outcome dissatisfaction, it has not been systematically tested except possibly in West Virginia and Vermont.

Football, basketball. and basketball have such a horror of the Daughtery Principle being enacted that play continues through overtime or extra innings until the tie is broken.

by Duckbutt March 19, 2011

screw the pooch

This expression means to make a catastrophic error or failure.

Watch him screw the pooch at the last minute and the deal fall through.

by Duckbutt January 29, 2006

Beta dog dance

An occasion where non-alpha males attempt to act more dominant than they are.

Jack's assessment of the Fraternal Order of Fowls meeting: a beta dog dance for middle management aspirants.

by Duckbutt December 27, 2003

clusterfuck trifecta

This is the perfect storm of government, in which there is simultaneous failure of all three levels of government: local, state, and federal.

The handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was a clusterfuck trifecta par excellence.

by Duckbutt July 26, 2006

doodlebugging

Using a seismic method for exploring for oil that entails setting off explosions at measured intervals and recording the shock waves' passage through different strata.

Bill spent the summer doodlebugging with a seismic crew off the Great Barrier Reef.

by Duckbutt July 29, 2005

Baltimore eloquence

This refers to the heavy or excessive use of profanity.

He told me to sit my sorry fuckin' ass down in the chair. This Baltimore eloquence shows he's a real fuckin' Baltimore gentleman.

by Duckbutt September 12, 2007

poliitical schadenfreude

The pleasure experienced when a member of an opposed political party is experiencing embarassment or disfunction.

The Lewinsky affair generated much political schadenfreude within the G.O.P.

by Duckbutt January 1, 2004