downstrike's definitions

littles

1. A race of mouse-sized and mouse-tailed humanoids from an 80s cartoon series called, The Littles. Little is also the surname of just about every mouse-sized humanoid character in the series. Most episodes centered around the adventures, misadventures, and struggles of two preteen littles.
2. Slang term used by the MPD-DID subculture to indicate child personas of adults who have multiple personalities.

My littles like to watch The Littles.

by Downstrike September 25, 2005

hard drive

1. The most efficient n00b detector ever invented.

2. A hardware component within the computer used for (hopefully) permanent storage.

3. N00bish slang for the box that contains the hardware components.

1. "Yes, I formatted it. Now what? Uh, huh. Uh, huh. Um, what's a backup?"

2. There is no quicker way to explain what a useless duh-weeb you are, than to call the tower or desktop unit the "hard drive", regardless how many times you've been told that it isn't. It's no wonder tech support can't understand what you're telling them.

3. "No, it's not Fat or Inty-Effess. It's a Dell, dude!"

by Downstrike December 1, 2004

rebuild

To repair returned merchandise. Not necessarily synonymous with refurbishing, depending on company policy.

We don't rebuild here, we just refurbish.

We don't call it refurbished unless it's rebuilt.

by Downstrike June 4, 2004

quadraphonic

What surround sound was called before it went out of style in the 70s. Frequently abbreviated as quad.

You should have heard Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here in quadraphonic.

by Downstrike June 5, 2004

linguistic intolerance

A symptom of bigotry in which a bigot insists that the spelling, grammar, or pronunciation of other languages, cultures, or subcultures are inferior, or simply wrong.

Some linguistically intolerant Jews and Muslims, such as the late Sheikh Ahmed Deedat complain about what they call, the J Sickness, in which most European languages substitute the letter J for the letter Y when transliterating names from ancient texts, such as:

Joel for Yael
Judah for Yehuda
Joshua for Yeheshua
Joseph for Yusuf
Jonah for Yunus
Jesus for Yesus or Yeshua
Jehovah for Yehowa or Yahweh

Since J is the letter used to produce the Y sound in most European languages, this complaint is an example of petty linguistic intolerance. Sheikh Deedat also rather amusingly blamed the "J" sickness on Jehovah's Witnesses, as if they, in the 20th century had had the power to change the way Europeans spelled names in medieval times, so it's difficult to determine whether his bigotry was against Christians in general, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Europeans. (Source: www.jamaat.net/name/name3.html)

by Downstrike October 19, 2005

alignment

One's philosophical loyalties; may include religious ideals.

In RPG, the choice between good and evil; law and chaos.

Why do my chaotic evil characters always get stuck with a bunch of goody-goody lawfuls?

by Downstrike May 26, 2004

paraphernalia

1. Stuff, things, items, objects, tools, geegaws, whachamacallits, thingamajigs, dofunnies, hinktybobbles, accoutrements, trinkets, accesories, clutter, flotsam, jetsam, literature, gadgets, nicknacks, paddy-whacks, and dogs to give bones to.

2. Items one uses to accomplish a task.

3. Tools of a trade.

4. Anything used to assist in ingesting illegal narcotics of any kind.

1. I don't want any of your paraphernalia!

4. They got busted for manufacturing paraphernalia, man! (A common refrain around Arcata, CA.)

by Downstrike May 25, 2004