Definitions by Arunabh Das

nerdismo 

nerdismo is nerd-machismo. It goes a step beyond just plain "being a nerd" to the realm where you flaunt the fact of living the nerd lifestyle...

I love Richard Stallman for his nerdismo, yo!

nerdismo by Arunabh Das January 30, 2007

spin alley 

Wherever there is a big candidates' debate there is Spin Alley. After the debate, journalists have to write stories, produce TV packages. For this they need quotes and authorized knowers who can talk on camera.


There to provide such are the spinners: hired guns, stand-ins, soulmates who agree to meet the press after the debate to explain why their candidate "won." Of course this is a verdict known in advance; however that fact too is known in advance, so no one really minds. Spin Alley will live again in whatever large, air-conditioned room is next designated for the ritual. Unless it's stopped.

After the debate, I took the press shuttle back to the media center -- and to the small section therein blatantly designated "Spin Alley," ringed on three sides by bare-bones makeshift broadcast platforms and stuffed to capacity with reporters, camera crews and politicos. Everywhere you looked there were clusters of media people surrounding spinners and surrogates, whose names were printed on laminated red signs held high above the crowd by aides. I felt like I was standing in the middle of one of my own damn cartoons come to life.

spin alley by Arunabh Das April 24, 2005

phicus 

a papular skin eruption of thickened and horny lesions

I ate the phicus off her skin.

phicus by Arunabh Das March 12, 2005

ficus 

A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.

A small piece of tobacco. U.S.

I'll clean the ficus from the roof.

ficus by Arunabh Das March 12, 2005

the celery dances at midnight 

redundant answer to an obfuscated question

"What's the meaning of it all?"

"Does the celery not dance at midnight?"

the celery dances at midnight by Arunabh Das March 6, 2005

IALTO

I Am Like That Only

Ramesh was always pulling a fast one on his friends. He explained by saying "IALTO".

IALTO by Arunabh Das April 22, 2004

Iravati Hingne 

She was a girl who I fell in love with in TVM. Unfortunately, she wasn't interested in me.

Iravati Hingne wasn't interested in me.

Iravati Hingne by Arunabh Das April 22, 2004