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Definitions by Uncle Dimma

subjectively meaningless 

something that is objectively meaningless according to the person telling you this phrase but subjectively meaningless to everyone else.
boy 1) my mother says that smoking Mary Jane is meaningless

boy 2) just ignore your old lady. her opinion is subjectively meaningless, that it is, it is meaningless only according to her, but meaningful to everyone else we know.

reform The Church 

to become a nihilist/anarchist/political shit disturber.
a history professor: students, what's the fastest way to go hell and to be punished by either G-d or the Unforgivables?

student: to become Jesus Christ the historical character and reform The Church?

professor: Correct you are, but this only applies, as you yourself pointed out, to Jesus the historical character, well since the Romans were pantheists

not my brand of whiskey 

man 1 ): how did Hitler commit suicide: by taking a cyanide pill or shooting himself in the head?

man 2) no bloody idea. this is not my brand of whiskey, I'm a biochemist anyways. go to a history department, they may be able to help you there.
an offensive term for a US county sheriff.

This definition stems from the fact that a US county sheriff can, if you do do something stupid in his presence, such as resisting your arrest, book you a ticket to the slammer or big house.
boy a): yay. just heard flying agaric is a pleasant experience. Let's try it.

boy b) why in the devil's horn are you so proud of yourself? I bet it would be a laughing matter, if a booker pulled you over and booked you in the slammer for the night, wouldn't it?
booker by Uncle Dimma June 1, 2012

rotten apple 

an offensive term for a school age child (under the age of 18) who has disciplinary problems and is being rebellious against their parents.
mother: Becky, what is wrong with you. I didn't give birth to you so as a teenager you would be a rotten apple.

Becky: Lol. i not a rotten apple, mom. you as my computer illiterate simply don't understand the children and teenagers of our generation.

institutionalist

a) someone who institutionalizes a scholarly concept

b) an offensive term for an academic scholar
boy a) was Karl Marx an institutionalist?

boy b) yes. he institutionalized the concepts of communism, socialism, capitalism, etc. and he was an institutionalist in the field of, if I am not mistaken, political science

to institutionalize 

(verb): to scholarly define a word or concept in order to manipulate to your political advantage the ignorant masses.
boy: father, what is xenophobia? I found in internet chat room

father: I don't know, but it sounds like a scholarly term. Maybe we should try to institutionalize it and use it to manipulate the ignorant masses. What du think?

boy: I'll ask at the Political Science department of Mcgill University. Maybe they could help me there?

father: sounds like a plan to me.