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by Astor G. October 25, 2007
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A corporate bullying lawsuit filed against a person or a group with the express purpose of silencing their protests. Usually under the pretext of "slander" or "libel" and the targets are often whistle-blowers.
A corporate bullying lawsuit filed against a person or a group with the express purpose of silencing their protests. Usually under the pretext of "slander" or "libel" and the targets are often whistle-blowers.
A scrap metal company filed a 5 million dollar SLAPP in 2005 against an environmental non-profit after it blew the whistle on chemical runoff seeping into a sensitive salmon spawning river, claiming they were slandered. It's just another example of corporate bully-suing.
by Astor G. April 30, 2008
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Get the bikini beard mug.1. What a credit company or subprime mortgage agent has in you when you are maxed out, can't pay and they've tripled the interest rate they charge.
2. A lending company that deliberately suckers in distressed lenders knowing they'll pay the minimum while they can raise their interest rates upteen million times. The act of making them pay through the nose is having their greedhooks in their "customers."
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2. A lending company that deliberately suckers in distressed lenders knowing they'll pay the minimum while they can raise their interest rates upteen million times. The act of making them pay through the nose is having their greedhooks in their "customers."
greed + meathooks
ABC credit lending gave me a preapproved $5000.00 loan, so I took it because I had bills piling up. Now I got in an accident and lost my job. Now the company has their greedhooks in me.
by Astor G. March 20, 2008
Get the greedhooks mug.Somebody who does an internet search on a word, a religion, a person, etc., on Wikipedia and a few other sites at the top of the Google list and decides they know everything the need to in order to win their argument.
Person one: "Who, Jason just blistered me with his list of who are the best and worst American Presidents."
Person two: "Yesterday, he didn't know anything about them."
Person one: "Yeah, well, today, he's become an instant expert.
Person two: "Yesterday, he didn't know anything about them."
Person one: "Yeah, well, today, he's become an instant expert.
by Astor G. February 20, 2008
Get the instant expert mug.Someone who looks up a word or a fact on a search engine, such as {Google}, looks at a few articles or definitions, mostly on {Wikipedia}, and decides they now know everything about it.
Person one: "Whoa. So now Jason started an argument with me about which of the American Presidents are the best and worst. Yesterday, he didn't know anything about them."
Person two: "He {Googled} them, obviously."
Person one: "you're right. He's become an instant expert."
Person two: "He {Googled} them, obviously."
Person one: "you're right. He's become an instant expert."
by Astor G. February 28, 2008
Get the instant expert mug.A hard-core member of the Religious Right. generally obsessively preaching the Word, telling you you're going to hell and has no tolerance for difference.
Pat Robertson is a fundamentalcase, plain and simple. Don't you get tired of hearing that every natural disaster is caused by gays, feminists, pagans and liberals?
by Astor G. November 26, 2007
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