703 definitions by Monkey's Dad
With his stay-at-home Mom and his stay-at-home Dad, he was now a stay-at-home kid. Watching cartoons and playing video games, he was unsure as to why they both seemed so anxious. That was only for a while. Wasn't it?
by Monkey's Dad March 17, 2020
The sculptor had worked very hard to do this. His sculpture was exactly life-sized, colored and textured to precisely replicate the thing it was imitating, and, standing in the gallery, it looked like a living, breathing security guard. Except that it was not breathing, nor was it living, nor did anyone recognize it as a work of art. Or feel anything about it. Or pay it any mind. An example of craft for craft's sake, it had achieved a state of verisimehlitude.
by Monkey's Dad June 22, 2021
The sculptor had worked very hard to do this. His sculpture was exactly life-sized, colored and textured to precisely replicate the thing it was imitating, and, standing in the gallery, it looked like a living, breathing security guard. Except that it was not breathing, nor was it living, nor did anyone recognize it as a work of art. Or feel anything about it. Or pay it any mind. An example of craft for craft's sake, it had achieved a state of verisimehlitude.
by Monkey's Dad June 22, 2021
A peaceful protest which is infiltrated and manipulated by opposing forces, to demonize the original gathering by instigating violence.
The BLM protest was civil and calm. Suddenly an outsider appeared, threw a rock at police, a fire was set, the cops sprayed tear gas and in minutes it became a demon-stration.
by Monkey's Dad September 5, 2020
The futile urge to recall the "toll-free" number - is there another kind anymore? - which the announcers manning the membership drive on Public Radio have repeated several dozen times in the past few seconds and which, as a result, refuses to be recalled.
Let's see... 888... something something... why do I have such low remembership drive for that number, even though it is toll-free?
by Monkey's Dad September 11, 2019
In the early 21st Century, America began to suffer from collective mental illness. A comically unqualified game show host was elevated to the presidency. A bankrupt billionaire, an ignorant genius, a compulsive liar whose every utterance was truth, the people cheered him when he told them that self-destruction was liberty, that risking mortal contagion was a sign of health, that having destroyed their democracy he had made them great again. If clarity ever arrived, it would be too late, and forward they proudly marched.
by Monkey's Dad May 25, 2020
The conservative justices might have noted that 'voting fraud', which several states claim they are trying to prevent, is essentially nonexistent. As one federal judge put it, such laws are akin to using “a sledgehammer to hit an imaginary fly on a glass coffee table.”
by Monkey's Dad July 2, 2021