Russell Clark's definitions

South California

Any bogus place of origin. A term connoting personal or group suspicion about someone's stated place of origin.

Once Jill got Miss "big noise" out of the limelight and talked to her off to the side. . . turned out the lil hobag had crashed the party. Yeah, I asked her where she was from and she said, "South California" hehe!

by Russell Clark December 6, 2006

battries

batteries for a woman's vibrator

She always maintained a fresh supply of battries and didn't need a boyfriend.

by Russell Clark April 18, 2003

Gothneck

A lower middle or working class inhabitant of a rural town or area in the Bible Belt who has adopted the necrophilous fashions and folkways of spiritually troubled affluent youth.

"So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to their" Gothneck clothes and Halloween makeup or antipathy to people who aren’t covered with tattoos and body-piercings like them or anti-vanilla sentiment or anti-square sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

by Russell Clark March 26, 2009

Blogga, please!

Special concluding segment of Bill Maher's HBO political satire and late night talk show where questions submitted to the show from Bloggers are discussed. The segment title is an obvious nod to one of Dave Chappelle's similarly titled comedy skits, starring comedian Chris Rock.

Maher: "It's time for our end-of-the-show, Blogga, please! segment - this is where people blog in and we get the questions right from people off the Internet".

Blogga: What do you think of the UFOs over Texas? . . .
Maher: “UFOs are a lot more likely, than a space God flew down bodily, and who you know is the son of God, and had sex with a Palestinian woman.”

by Russell Clark February 3, 2008

slackergic

Promoting the productive or creative energies of those possessing slack. Pertaining to the productivity of a slacker. Any slack promoting or releasing agent.

Billy cobbled together his most ambitious spot welded compositions while chilling to the slackergic riffs of Ska and Rasta music.

by Russell Clark December 7, 2006

Bambi Effect

Primarily the Bambi Effect designates the emotional trauma, usually mild and transitory experienced by hunters and trappers when viewing close up a dead or dying and suffering neotenous, i.e., "cute and adorable" animal for whose death and suffering they suddenly acknowledge some responsibility.

Guilt experienced by a hunter as he suddenly identifies with the suffering of an animal which he has killed. The name is a reference to the classic Disney film, Bambi, in which the tragic climax to the story is reached as the protagonist's (Bambi's) mother is killed by hunters.

Secondarily the effect pertains to the reaction of witnesses to scenes of the brutal killing of said neotenous animals, e.g., harp seal pups clubbed by Canadian hunters.

The black limpid pools for eyes of small, helpless harp seal pups connote childlike innocence, and it was the oft repeated images in the mass media of the clubbing of seal pups that caused an outcry in the 1970's to protect the pups from Canadian hunters. Strangely, the continual slaughter of bonobo apes, who are genetically closest to humans or of West African elephants, orders of magnitude more intelligent and consciously aware than any seal pup, never provoked nearly the same amount of public concern and outrage against animal cruelty. This seeming ethical inconsistency is no doubt owing to the differential operation of the Bambi Effect upon witnesses to images of human-caused animal suffering.

by Russell Clark January 3, 2007

extremiocrity

The characteristic of possessing talents, abilities and knowledge distributed so as to be exceptional in some areas, poor in others and mediocre in none.

George was the least well-rounded person you could imagine - a real study in extremiocrity!

by Russell Clark May 14, 2006