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by al-in-chgo July 24, 2016
Get the shaboinking mug.The area of Pennsylvania, generally east and south of Pittsburgh in the Appalachian Mountain chain, that behaves more like Appalachia than the affluent East. Pennsyltucky is characterized by a poorish white population, mountain living, and a lack of cultural and ethnic diversity. It is a portmanteu of PENNSYLvania and KenTUCKY, the former state showing its mid-Atlantic location and the latter its poor ethnic white makeup. It is worth noting that Pennsylvania and Kentucky have no common border, so the term differs from more common locutions like "Illiana" or "Ark-La-Tex."
-- "Did you know that Vice President Joe Biden coined the term Pennsyltucky?"
-- Actually the term was in use over ten years ago, but Biden reactivated it to refer to a distinct geographical and ethnic bloc within Pennsylvania -- a bloc that Donald Trump would probably have to win to take all of Pennsylvania in the 2016 Presidential election."
-- Actually the term was in use over ten years ago, but Biden reactivated it to refer to a distinct geographical and ethnic bloc within Pennsylvania -- a bloc that Donald Trump would probably have to win to take all of Pennsylvania in the 2016 Presidential election."
by al-in-chgo August 4, 2016
Get the Pennsyltucky mug.A used book (overall condition unimportant) that an avid reader "rescues" from a library sale, used-bookstore, clearance shelf, or home of a downsizing relative, without any immediate need for it but in the fear it will be pulped otherwise. The term puppy-dog comes from the similarity to rescuing an animal and taking it home to a house already full of cats and dogs, for fear it would otherwise be euthanized.
"Did you really need to buy DISCOURSES ON LIVY by Niccolo Machiavelli?"
"Well . . . it's a puppy-dog book to me. It's a good clean copy, it was cheap, eventually I may find time to read it, and most of all I couldn't bear the idea of it hitting the recycling bin and sent to print heaven."
"Well . . . it's a puppy-dog book to me. It's a good clean copy, it was cheap, eventually I may find time to read it, and most of all I couldn't bear the idea of it hitting the recycling bin and sent to print heaven."
by al-in-chgo August 4, 2016
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From the Greek GONATOs + PHILE, "Knee" and "Lover of."
Not to be confused with "gonad."
From the Greek GONATOs + PHILE, "Knee" and "Lover of."
Not to be confused with "gonad."
by al-in-chgo November 12, 2015
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Get the pacy mug.A fusion of AMAzon + armaGEDDON; specifically, October 13, 2017, the day the giant retailer shut down all its customer chat boards.
by al-in-chgo August 12, 2018
Get the Amageddon mug.Abbreviation for "Guilty Mom Syndrome," a wonderfully flexible term which refers to the syndrome of mothers of young children feeling guilty about their inadequacies and trying to blame the world, but also to onlookers who wonder if that guilt would not be better addressed if the mothers would take responsibility for their own unhappiness.
~ "Doreen just bought Honey Bee another boatload of toys. Now she complains she can't pay the phone bill."
~ "Chalk it up to a very bad case of GMS."
~ "Chalk it up to a very bad case of GMS."
by al-in-chgo August 30, 2018
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