8 definitions by burnt sox

goon trance

“Gooning is a sort of modernized version of tantric sex/masturbation without the spiritual aspects that have been traditionally associated with it in the past. ... It’s an almost hypnotic, semi-meditative mental state a person can enter after prolonged masturbation.”

The ones who travel furthest for self-pleasure say that, if they edge long enough, they fall into a mind-numbing trance where nothing matters but nutting. Only then can an edger truly claim to be “gooning.”

-- M. Stahl, "THE PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE OF ‘GOONING’ — OR MASTURBATING INTO A TRANCE, Mel Magazine (accessed December 20, 2022)

Just when you think you know how to masturbate, someone finds the goon trance. Now you can spend your whole day almost getting off.

by burnt sox December 20, 2022

boomer space

Putting two spaces after a period. Even though every reference written after 1995 says that it's now one space after a period, your 60-year-old CEO still insists that when he was walking uphill, barefoot, in the snow, with one typewriter under each arm, his secretary put two spaces after a period and, dammit, you will, too, as long as you work here.

My soul dies just a little more every time I put that second space after a period, but the boss says we have to use the Boomer space.

My soul dies just a little more every time I put that second space after a period, but the boss says we have to use the Boomer space.{space}{space}

by burnt sox December 10, 2021

gozon

Gozón, in Cuban Spanish a not always positive description of the person who lives to party and have fun, as their top priority. Hedonist.

That dude Hernandez is the number one gozón. It's

Hernandez is such a gozon. "It's fun to have fun and you have to know how." That dude knows how!

by burnt sox June 25, 2022

shot his/her/their wad

In a refreshing break from political correctness, this is found more and more in executive boardrooms to describe a party's presentation of his best offering, such as a lawyer giving his best argument or a company putting its final offer on the table.

With the obvious sexual reference as you see in other wad entries, it's especially funny to see two women execs talking about shooting their respective "wads."

Jeeves shot his/her/their wad with a demand for first-class travel to get to meetings on the Jasper deal.

by burnt sox December 24, 2006

Corporate

The spouse, in the sense that she would need to approve a purchase, trip, or activity.

Man, I was going to get that 47-inch Sony flat screen, but Corporate would only sign off on a 32-inch Hitachi.

Sorry, Corporate didn't approve the Vegas weekend. Go on without me.

by burnt sox March 28, 2010

Goggin's Law

Any email thread with more than six addressees will resolve itself without you having to respond.

Wonk A: Incredible! By the time I read that email thread about the TPS reports, Jane in Marketing and Brad in Finance had fixed the problem... I didn't have to do a thing!

Wonk B: Goggin's Law works in mysterious ways, my friend.

by burnt sox May 16, 2010

Bad-guy aim

The trope in every action movie by which the villains, often highly trained soldiers, mercenaries, and hitmen launch an arsenal of every weapon known to man, yet can barely nick our hero or heroine with anything more serious than a flesh wound.

Often paired with the Good-Guy Bullseye, which Our Hero/Heroine uses to bring down a spaceship or aircraft carrier with a single, blindfolded shot from a pea-shooter.

Black Widow saved the day because the Russian hit squad had Bad-Guy Aim, allowing her to destroy the Kremlin by throwing a paper plane at it.

by burnt sox July 30, 2023