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

top-down awareness

That awkward moment when a person realizes that her bikini top has fallen out of place and others are aware of the fact.

In leaping up unto the raft, and seeing bemused stares from the boys, Angel experienced a not unpleasant top-down awareness.

by Duckbutt December 27, 2003

400 pound gorilla

Something that cannot be overlooked because it is so much larger and more impressive than any of the others.

When it came to rock music groups, the Rolling Stones are the 400 pound gorilla: the quinitessinally best of them all.

by Duckbutt January 7, 2007

Scheissenbedaurn

Scheissenbedaurn is the vague sense of disappointment that something thought to be really bad or in awful taste turns out to be not as bad as expected. (From the German, meaning literally: "shit-regret")

I left concerts by the Dixie Chicks and by Britney Spears with a vague sense of scheissenbedaurn. They merely mildly sucked, but neither was the world-class suckfest I longed for. The same thing cannot be said about the enormity that is a Barbra Streisand concert.

by Duckbutt October 27, 2006

Flotown

North Alabama slang for Florence, Alabama.

Flotown now has Sunday alcohol sales and has entered the 21st century.

by Duckbutt August 28, 2005

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

steaming turd

A very disreputable and disgusting person. Any descriptive with the word "turd" can serve to stress the particularly egregious nature of the person's unpleasantness.

The boss made it evident in the relish he took in firing people what a steaming turd he was.

by Duckbutt December 7, 2005