Tenacious Faulker's definitions
When an organization or community is doing poorly enough that its smartest people, seeing the writing on the wall, leave for better opportunities elsewhere. This is common in business and other organizations that perpetuate a common goal or mission and once purged it typically accelerates the demise of the organiztion.
For example: Facebook's poor stock performance since it's IPO and lack of favorable stock options for employees puts them at risk of brain drain. Many will likely head over to Google or Apple, but they'll be in trouble.
For example: Facebook's poor stock performance since it's IPO and lack of favorable stock options for employees puts them at risk of brain drain. Many will likely head over to Google or Apple, but they'll be in trouble.
Mark Zuckerberg: Sheryl, can find me those repots on Zynga's...Hey?! Why are wearing a Google sweatshirt?!
Sheryl Sandberg: Sorry Mark. We had a good run, but your lack of focus on ad revenue and overvalued IPO has caused this drop in FB stock value with no end in sight. I and the others are leaving before the stock tanks.
Mark Z: The others? They're all leaving Facebook? You can't! We'll never survive this brain drain!
Sheryl: Yeah, sorry. You should've thought about that before going public.
Sheryl Sandberg: Sorry Mark. We had a good run, but your lack of focus on ad revenue and overvalued IPO has caused this drop in FB stock value with no end in sight. I and the others are leaving before the stock tanks.
Mark Z: The others? They're all leaving Facebook? You can't! We'll never survive this brain drain!
Sheryl: Yeah, sorry. You should've thought about that before going public.
by Tenacious Faulker August 21, 2012
Get the brain drainmug. Getting a sudden and uncontrollable boner from a sudden shock of fear. Usually happens when one freaks out during a public speaking .
According to Wikipedia, actor Thomas Lennon sufffers from panic boners. Apparently he's more nervous in front of crowds than he let's on.
by Tenacious Faulker March 29, 2015
Get the panic bonermug. To scan over something or someone quickly; to measure without using any tools other than the naked eye; guessing; approximating. A term often used in sports scouting to see if a player or team passes muster without looking at any metrics.
We passed on that short receiver because he didn't pass the ball test.
I know that actress just walked in off the street, but but she passes my eyeball test. Get her signed and to the studio pronto!
I left a blind date before I even sat down. She didn't pass my eyeball test.
That presentation needs to be reformatted to read better. Its simply doesn't pass an eyeball test.
I know that actress just walked in off the street, but but she passes my eyeball test. Get her signed and to the studio pronto!
I left a blind date before I even sat down. She didn't pass my eyeball test.
That presentation needs to be reformatted to read better. Its simply doesn't pass an eyeball test.
by Tenacious Faulker March 5, 2014
Get the eyeball testmug. Win: Legendary win
Fail: Legendary fail
Kill: Legendary kill
Awesomeness: Legendary awesomeness
The Dude: The Legendary Dude
Dog's balls: Legendary Dog's balls
Weed: Legendary weed
pwned: Legendary pwned
Sex: Lengendary sex
Get it?
Fail: Legendary fail
Kill: Legendary kill
Awesomeness: Legendary awesomeness
The Dude: The Legendary Dude
Dog's balls: Legendary Dog's balls
Weed: Legendary weed
pwned: Legendary pwned
Sex: Lengendary sex
Get it?
by Tenacious Faulker April 1, 2009
Get the legendarymug. A business term used to describe how a free-market economy balances itself after extreme events run their course like a rising stocks after a recession or the real estate bubble burst. The word crossed over into everyday use to similarly describe when one's fortune or luck changes, for bad or good, changing the course of daily life.
BAD:
Bob: Last summer I was was nailing babes left and right. Now that I'm back at college...nothing!
Pete: Ah, well, you're not that attractive or interesting. You just had a lucky streak. You were due for a market correction. Consider yourself forntunate if any girl even talks to you, bro!
GOOD:
Pete: I was just promoted at work! I've been wasting my talents there for WEEKS, but the VP just quit and they promoted me to replace him. Guess I was due for a market correction, huh? How's the girl situation, Bob?
Bob: I hate you.
Bob: Last summer I was was nailing babes left and right. Now that I'm back at college...nothing!
Pete: Ah, well, you're not that attractive or interesting. You just had a lucky streak. You were due for a market correction. Consider yourself forntunate if any girl even talks to you, bro!
GOOD:
Pete: I was just promoted at work! I've been wasting my talents there for WEEKS, but the VP just quit and they promoted me to replace him. Guess I was due for a market correction, huh? How's the girl situation, Bob?
Bob: I hate you.
by Tenacious Faulker August 21, 2009
Get the market correctionmug. The act of quickly following a paying driver through a toll station before the cross member falls thus blocking your otherwise mad escape OR tailgating someone very closely through an EZ Pass lane with the same intent. This tactic can also be employed with great success exiting parking decks.
Thanks to my toll drafting skills I save over $350 dollars in tolls this year while only being hit with 2 fines worth $60 and making good time the EZ Pass lane to boot.
by Tenacious Faulker January 22, 2009
Get the toll draftingmug. The constant, incessant and relentless assult on the senses of the public and individual's alike by the corporate community and/or the government designed to alter, influence and even impair your ability to effect your own unbaised and reasonable needs, wants, and opinions.
1) Modern U.S. corporations spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year to perpetuate the marketing machine in order promote ravenous consumerism to a virtually unchecked capitalistic society that plunders the Earth's resources and harms developing countries.
2) Bush and Cheney employed a massive marketing machine to sell the Iraqi war to the public, promote ongoing fear from 9/11, and shrunk the gap in the separation of church and state in order to get re-elected despite a disasterous 1st term in office.
2) Bush and Cheney employed a massive marketing machine to sell the Iraqi war to the public, promote ongoing fear from 9/11, and shrunk the gap in the separation of church and state in order to get re-elected despite a disasterous 1st term in office.
by Tenacious Faulker May 19, 2009
Get the marketing machinemug.