Usually a name for a boy. A funny and cheery boy who always brightens up other people's days. Incredibly loving and loyal. The best friend every one needs and a ladies man.
• Reticide is the subtle and systematic annihilation of a mass group of people, usually not through direct violence, but through less overt means. Examples include propaganda encouraging the group not to reproduce, systematic pressure intended to encourage racial suicide, and institutional campaigns intended to stifle discussion or recognition of the killing through controlling of platforms of speech.
• Combines Reti-, which is Latin for “restrained silence” and -Cide, which is Latin for “kill”.
An action movie cliche in which a character in an action film mentions wanting to do somethingpeaceful after a mission/encounter only to die in the film.
Did that guy in the movie say he wants to marry his girlfriendafter the war? Yep, he's got two days till retirement!
This came about while talking with a friend about the death of someone who was planning to retire, but passed away before retiring. I told him that we would be attending his retirement funeral.
Retirement Funeral - a service held for a person who planned to retire, but died before retiring.
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Nonsense technobabble used in a production context.
Reticulating splines started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a "real" meaning, this definition isn't actually correct in the context of its use. It's really a programming joke.
Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Don't want to describe what's holding up the program? It's reticulating splines. Why isn't the Internet working? The splines aren't reticulated. Heck, don't want to explain your calculus assignment? We're reticulating splines this week.
See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.