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Race For Doroon

Sci Fi/Fantasy novel about boos, boofetts and the Kee.
Slang terms boo and boofett originated in Race For Doroon.
by Downstrike June 5, 2004
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name

1. A word or combination of words by which one is identified.

2. One's rep.

3. Authority derived that which is named.
1. Hey you!

2. Psycho Bitch has a name around here.

3. Stop in the name of the Law!
Stop in the name of the King!
...baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
by Downstrike October 30, 2004
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personal space

An area around a person, within which other people make them nervous, except for intimacy. Also, space and my space.
You're invading my personal space.

Get out of my space!
by Downstrike December 23, 2004
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county seat

The capital city of a county, from which the county's government operates, and where fairgrounds and regional offices of state agencies are frequently located.
Frisco fills the entire county of San Francisco, so it can't help but be the county seat.
by Downstrike October 23, 2005
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damn well please

1. What people do when they know better.

2. What a corporation or government remains free to continue to do after being convicted of criminal activity that would have been a capital offense if an individual had been convicted of it. See also committee and bureaucracy.
Due to legal doctrines such as corporate personhood, corporations and governments have more rights than people do, so they do what ever they damn well please.
by Downstrike September 20, 2004
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Typo

1. The one instance of a particular word in what you've written that will bring out stampeding herds of duh-weebs to point out to you the correct spelling of the word - and a few more incorrect ways to spell it - even though every other instance of the word is spelled correctly.

2. A correctly spelled word that illiterate duh-weebs are unfamiliar with, and will mistake for misspellings of other words.

3. The reason why spell-checkers were invented.
1. "The correct spelling of yelow is yellow."

"Maybe that's why I spelled it that way the other 36 times I used that word."

2. "You left the P out of homepage."

"If I had wanted to call my homage a homepage, I would have."

3. "I spell everything correctly! I use a spell-checker!"

"Spell-checkers don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, and neither do you."
by Downstrike May 30, 2004
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Alt attribute

In HTML, an attribute of the img tag that allows persnickety browsers to display text in place of the image, or to indicate the content of the image to the visually impaired and search engine spiders.
In the event that an image displayed on a web page displays text or other information, the Alt attribute should be set with descriptive text so that persnickety browsers, visually impaired people, and search engines can read the description. A lot of SEO spammers get themselves banned from search engines by keyword stuffing their Alt attributes.

Some accessibility nuts like to ruin a webmasters day by insisting that every blasted, non-informative image must have an "Alt tag". Some of us cave in to their nonsense by using NiDE, but the truth is, there is no such thing as an Alt tag. Alt is an attribute of the img tag.
by Downstrike April 9, 2006
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