IrishRepublicanArmy's definitions

listserv

A referance to an internet e-mail/email mailing list.

WTF? Example too short?

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 29, 2003

Vitamin G

Well its like gasoline

In fact, it really is.

Bart: Man i hate mowing the lawn
Homer: Here, use Vitamin G
(grass lites on fire)
Bart: Umm...dad
Homer: Don't worry it's a "Controlled Burn"

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 10, 2003

sub rosa

Translated from Latin, this means "under the rose" and is a term frequently used for surveillance but can also mean any type of undercover or discrete investigation. We provide sub rosa/surveillance services both to private parties and to commercial firms.

see pirate radio for where i used this word.

by irishrepublicanarmy December 31, 2003

foot warmer

CB radio slang for an illegal amplifier (usally a modified 10/12 meter ham radio amp.) which brings the 4W AM (12W SSB). output to something like 1000 watts or sometimes higher. As a result, the 26.965 to 27.405 MHz band is littered with stations jamming a single channel and not allowing anyone else to use it (AM does not have the "capture effect" that FM does.) because that person is using a "foot warmer" and it congests the frequency so much that it is unusable, and in turn, more people buy "foot warmers" to combat this interferance from distant stations, and thus the cycle continues.

If everyone who used illegal amplifiers was to stop using thier illegal equipment, range and interferance problems would lessen even for those who abandoned thier illegal equipment.

Dude! Hide your foot warmer, here comes uncle charlie!

Roger that, CRYSTAL PALACE BASE CONTROL has a foot warmer.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 8, 2003

yellow journalism

The use of cheaply sensational or unscrupulous methods in newspapers to attract and influence the readers.

99.3% of what is in tabloid newspapers is yellow journalism.

by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY December 26, 2003

fuel

kickass rock band

I cannot believe this is the only true definition of Fuel on this website.

by IRISHrepublicanARMY December 21, 2003

Catch-22

A government regulation that pretty much is an oxymoron, because it contradicts itself.

The term "Catch-22" first came out in the book by the same name.

by IrishRepublicanArmy February 8, 2004