blue star

(n) A wide-spread and long-lived ridiculous scare during the 1980s and 1990s about LSD laced tattoos using a blue star design. Supposedly temporary tattoos were handed out to unsuspecting middle school students during recess. The tattoos were said to leach LSD through the skin. Dozens of law enforcement agencies and health departments, starting with the New Jersey Police Department Narcotics Bureau in 1980, have issued warnings about this “blotter acid” -- none of which is remotely true. Over the years scores of different flyers have been handed out to local PTAs throughout the country, often produced at home by scared but well-meaning and clueless parents, asserting that LSD tattoos bearing the designs of Mickey Mouse (as Sorcerers Apprentice), butterflies, clowns, red pyramids, colored microdots, and even Bart Simpson, were making the rounds of local school yards. Law enforcement and health agencies now know the information was untrue, but the hoax still is recycled on use-net groups.

Ironic blow-back:

Many professional tatoo artists report that a favorite request is for blue star tattoos.

by Bill Peters November 11, 2006

panty

Hawaiian pidgeon noun denoting a wimp, sissy or a chump.

Hey panty; how come you get fat lip and black eye?

by Bill Peters October 07, 2006

absolute code

Among gay people there is an implicit Code of Honor: no matter how badly someone offends you, it is absolutely forbidden to expose or “out” fellow gays to their family, straight friends, or work colleagues.

No self respecting gay person would break the absolute code.

by Bill Peters November 06, 2006

Doodly-squat

Of no significance, rank or importance. The word “doodle” was in wide slang usage throughout the 19th Century to mean a fool, a clueless soldier or a penis. The term was in wide use during the Great Depression and was joined by the updated version "diddly-shit" in the 1960s.

“My gal is red hot (Your gal ain't doodly-squat)”
-- from the oft-covered 1950s song "Red Hot"

by Bill Peters October 07, 2006

perv

(n) (1) Someone perceived by the speaker as being sexually obsessed or promiscuous (rarely a true pervert)
(2) A retort one uses when they think the other person is being twisted in some fashion

(1) Your little brother asked me if my breasts were real. He's such a perv.

(2)
Female: You're kind of cute.
Guy: Y'think so? Ya wanna feel my "cute?"
Female: PERV !

by Bill Peters November 11, 2006

call out

(vb or n) To mock or insult someone or to issue a challenge for them to fight.

After hearing Julio call out Richard for stepping on his shoes, the students rushed to the scene to see what the excitement was all about.

by Bill Peters November 10, 2006

sound bite

(n) A short, catchy statement meeting the short attention requirements of TV news. Sound bites have the annoying habit of being play again and again ad nauseum. In fact, newscasts are increasingly built around sound bites instead of hard news and analysis. And public relations firms earn huge bucks cooking up sound bites for political spin and damage control.

One memorable sound bite (1984 Debate) from Vice Presidential candidate Lloyd Bensten countering Dan Quayle's comparision of himself to President John Kennedy.

Bensten: "I knew Jack Kennedy. He was a friend of mine. You are no Jack Kennedy."

by Bill Peters November 24, 2006