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tune + neanderthal: Someone whose music taste didn't evolve beyond Pat Boone/Perry Como.
A (singing): So you think you can tell/heaven from hell/blue skies from pain...
B: Wo dat?

A: Pink Floyd.
B (clueless): Pink...
A: Just cut it, man, stick with Perry Como - you know, catch a falling star...(to himself) Such a neanderthal, tuneless...yesss, that's it, tuneanderthal, difficult to say though.
by vivauganda January 20, 2011
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Useful in writing to avoid actually writing a cliche, while using one. Works in writing only, as most such acros.
Doomed if you do/doomed if you don't
can't say DIYDx2, because the 2nd D is different
Well, they get you somehow - DIYD/DIYDont, you know that cliche with doomed in it?
by vivauganda January 18, 2011
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An argument based on a pathetic hypothesis. Generally by argumen (sic). Something simply not raisinable (sic).
Sure there'd be a shortage of pork if pigs could fly: That's hypathetical.
by vivauganda April 30, 2013
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10 hours per day, 7 days a week.

Useful for an invisible job - like writing or e-selling from home.
Most people get annoyed when I tell them I may be a writer and working from home but I work damn hard - like 10/7.
by vivauganda December 22, 2010
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Unwarranted infantile adulation of a human.
Never saw such psycoinfancy in my life as at this years Oscars.
by vivauganda April 24, 2019
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Someone whose magnanimity stops outside his pocket.
He made a big speech at the fund-raiser and then hid like a magnanimouse when they came around with the hat.
by vivauganda December 20, 2010
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Deriving intended or unintended advantage from a main-event happening.
He wrote a letter to the editor about the Vancouver June 2011 riots in which he mentioned how things were so different in 1972 when Canada beat USSR in the Summit Series and Asian-origin refugees from Uganda's Idi Amin got admitted to Canada as a collateral benefit of the euphoria. In doing this he subtly mentioned that the item had been covered in his forthcoming book on Uganda Asians, thus deriving collateral benefit for his publication.
by vivauganda June 22, 2011
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