IAB - something someone says when they come back from being away from their computer. Similar to the use of "BRB" but for when you come back, not leave. Translates to "I Am Back"
"iab, so where were we?"
by Andy June 19, 2006
A character in Joe Dever and John Grant's Legends of Lone Wolf series, who is a mercenary warrior/assassin and an ally of Lone Wolf. She is one of the party who free Lone Wolf from Helgedad when he is kidnapped in Legends 5: The Claws of Helgedad, although she was assumed dead at the end of book 3.
She appears briefly in the original gamebook series, as one of the passengers on a coach from Ragadorn to Gorn Cove.
She appears briefly in the original gamebook series, as one of the passengers on a coach from Ragadorn to Gorn Cove.
Viveka appears to die after falling overboard on a ship, but she reappears safe and well at the Kai Monastery ruins.
She is one of the many not-quite-girlfriends Lone Wolf has in the Legends novels, and like most of them, she seems to just appear and disappear at random.
She is one of the many not-quite-girlfriends Lone Wolf has in the Legends novels, and like most of them, she seems to just appear and disappear at random.
by Andy April 25, 2004
Customers at nightclubs who assume this position have free reign to redesign the club to their liking and also all the bouncers must follow their orders.
Dom appointed himself the manager of ideas at the velvet dog and thus the bouncer did not kick him out of the club when he put a plant in the toilet bowel.
by Andy March 14, 2005
To masturbate
by Andy February 23, 2004
In Tolkien's work, a clan of elves skilled in mining and smithywork, who went west (along with the Vanyar and Teleri) in the early days of the First Age, and settled in a city called Tirion in Eldamar. They were close to the Vanya Aule. However, many of the Noldor returned to Middle-Earth after strife in Valinor caused partly by the machinations of Morgoth. They are also known as deep-elves and (in Tolkien's early work) gnomes.
The original king of the Noldor, Finwe, was slain by Morgoth while still in Valinor, but not until his three sons had begun to fight. The eldest son, Feanor, was the maker of beautiful and powerful jewels called Silmarils, and he was jealous towards his brothers, who he feared wished to usurp his position as Finwe's heir. When Morgoth stole the Silmarils, Feanor, who grew suspicious of the Valar, led a large section of the Noldor in pursuit, and was joined by Fingolfin and his sons. Some of the Noldor, under the third son Finarfin, remained in Eldamar.
The Noldor were put under a curse by the Valar after slaying some of their kin, the Teleri, while trying to steal boats to sail to Middle-Earth. Nevertheless, they became the major power in Beleriand for most of the First Age, and the growth and battles of their realms are the main focus of the Silmarillion. This history was, however, one of feuding and dispair.
Of the elves appearing in other works, only Galadriel is of the Noldor.
The original king of the Noldor, Finwe, was slain by Morgoth while still in Valinor, but not until his three sons had begun to fight. The eldest son, Feanor, was the maker of beautiful and powerful jewels called Silmarils, and he was jealous towards his brothers, who he feared wished to usurp his position as Finwe's heir. When Morgoth stole the Silmarils, Feanor, who grew suspicious of the Valar, led a large section of the Noldor in pursuit, and was joined by Fingolfin and his sons. Some of the Noldor, under the third son Finarfin, remained in Eldamar.
The Noldor were put under a curse by the Valar after slaying some of their kin, the Teleri, while trying to steal boats to sail to Middle-Earth. Nevertheless, they became the major power in Beleriand for most of the First Age, and the growth and battles of their realms are the main focus of the Silmarillion. This history was, however, one of feuding and dispair.
Of the elves appearing in other works, only Galadriel is of the Noldor.
The kings of the Noldor in Middle-Earth included the sons of Feanor (Maedhros, Maglor, Curufin, Celegorm, Caranthir, Amrod and Amras); Finrod Felagund, son of Fingolfin; and Turgon, son of Finarfin. Galadriel, sister of Finrod, later became ruler of Lorien.
Relations between the Noldor and other peoples such as the Sindar are portrayed in the Silmarillion as rather fraught.
Relations between the Noldor and other peoples such as the Sindar are portrayed in the Silmarillion as rather fraught.
by Andy April 25, 2004
Subjective destitution; an experience of oneself as excremental (a piece of shit) and worthless, and of being eclipsed by the objet petit a. An experience of the breakdown of one's sense of one's own value when overshadowed by the external locus of one's desires.
It is a concept in Lacanian psychoanalysis which is also sometimes used in cultural studies. It is a crucial component of Zizek's concept of the Act.
It is a concept in Lacanian psychoanalysis which is also sometimes used in cultural studies. It is a crucial component of Zizek's concept of the Act.
Victims of terrorist kidnappings may undergo aphanisis and end up identifying with their captors (the so-called "Helsinki Syndrome").
by Andy May 07, 2004