Definitions by AYB
tornado alley
A flat, prairie region of the central United States that is often prone to severe storms and seasonal floods.
You would think that people would be smart enough to listen to that old Indian guy's advice and NOT FUCKING BUILD ANYTHING PERMANENT THERE, but sadly, millions of ignorant folks keep building their mansions, and their towns, and their Double-Wide trailers, just to see them get smashed into matchwood each year by tornadoes and floods.
You would think that people would be smart enough to listen to that old Indian guy's advice and NOT FUCKING BUILD ANYTHING PERMANENT THERE, but sadly, millions of ignorant folks keep building their mansions, and their towns, and their Double-Wide trailers, just to see them get smashed into matchwood each year by tornadoes and floods.
"My home got flattened six times this decade, but that won't stop me from living in Tornado Alley", said a local resident.
tornado alley by AYB August 2, 2003
state-of-the-art
Every piece of new computer hardware is considered state-of-the-art for an average period of four months.
state-of-the-art by AYB July 30, 2003
floppy disk
Still a popular (yet obsolete) storage medium, despite the predictions that people would stop using them by 1999.
The geeks and corporate fatasses who predict the floppy disk's demise fail to take into account that not many people have the cash to shell out for a USB drive or Zip drive or a CD-rewritable drive just yet.
floppy disk by AYB July 30, 2003
poppy
An annual plant, of Eurasian origin, which produces a narcotic drug called opium (typically extracted from immature seed capsules), from which secondary drugs such as heroin and morphine are synthesized. The amount of opium extracted depends on the species/variety of poppy.
Ever wonder why poppy-seed pastries are fairly popular?
Ever wonder why poppy-seed pastries are fairly popular?
statistics
The study of percentages, bars, graphs, and charts, all in an attempt to make some sort of logical conclusion out of a bunch of numbers so that even more percentages, bars, graphs, and charts can be made.
statistics by AYB July 29, 2003
casino
A gambling house where millions of suckers part with their change, or their credit cards, or even their retirement savings, just for a chance to win that $2.5 million jackpot which will have a 1/987,150,666,074 chance of occuring in their lifetimes. Those poor folks should have remembered the Law of Large Numbers they learned in Statistics class, but they probably skipped class that day.