8 definitions by ET_Bill
by ET_Bill January 8, 2012
Unsuccessful pursuit or venture incorporating an over reliance upon state-of-the-market technologies and gadgetry instead of the safer, more reliable, "Keep It Simple, Stupid" (KISS) philosophy. Epic technology fail.
Terry: This Firebird X guitar has so many switches and knobs and settings... I just can't understand how to use all $6,000 of its robotic multiprocessing awesomeness.
Terry's Dad: Son, them boys just got bit by the high tech dumbass. Here, try my '64 Gibson ES-120...
Terry's Dad: Son, them boys just got bit by the high tech dumbass. Here, try my '64 Gibson ES-120...
by ET_Bill January 11, 2012
She: Your daughter is too cute... just adorable!
He: Nah, this cherubolical just took a hammer to my entire Pink Floyd CD collection.
He: Nah, this cherubolical just took a hammer to my entire Pink Floyd CD collection.
by ET_Bill July 4, 2010
An involuntary, often momentary, cessation of higher mental and/or cognizant functionality typically preceded by hearing a stops-you-dead-in-your-tracks comment (often political) or a knocks-your-socks-off experience (e.g., orgasm). Similar to mind numbing but more extreme with faster onset (i.e., it has nothing to do with the physiological response to lectures on thermodynamics).
Just to screw with my wife’s left-leaning friends and politically-affiliated solicitors, I now answer the home phone with the greeting “Palin-Bachmann 2012 campaign headquarters,” a real mindstun.
by ET_Bill June 28, 2011
1. Creatively deceitful or purposefully obfuscated accounting practices used to hide illegal or embarrassing activities.
2. The mental gymnastics and/or cryptic keystroke sequences required to input data correctly into poorly designed and operationally suspect software applications (e.g., databases, .DOC & .PDF forms, etc.).
A triple portmanteau of 'ledger' (pad for posting business & accounting transactions), 'legerdemain' (magic; deception; trickery) and 'maintenance.'
2. The mental gymnastics and/or cryptic keystroke sequences required to input data correctly into poorly designed and operationally suspect software applications (e.g., databases, .DOC & .PDF forms, etc.).
A triple portmanteau of 'ledger' (pad for posting business & accounting transactions), 'legerdemain' (magic; deception; trickery) and 'maintenance.'
Upon the discovery of Arthur Andersen's legerdemaintenance, Enron's house of cards collapsed into a stinking pile of shit bankrupting hundreds of former employees & investors.
by ET_Bill January 19, 2011
a polite amalgam of the terms "et cetera" and "all that shit." It sounds like Latin and therefore makes you appear smarter than you actually are.
by ET_Bill July 21, 2010
Literally, "a thousand pardons." A geeky form of apology that is nominally three orders of magnitude better than a simple, "I'm sorry." Kilopology is the most commonly used SI-unitized solicitation of forgiveness; others include "megapology" (offered in matters of sexual infidelity), "gigapology" (offered in matters of accidentally killing a little girl's pet pony), and terapology (offered when destroying worlds). Antonyms: millipology (i.e., not really giving a shit) & picopology (i.e., not even giving a fart).
by ET_Bill March 18, 2010