Black Flag's definitions

Stephen Hawkins

A genius, the best in his or her field.

Named after the famous wheelchair bound scientist.

David knew his research into the anatomy of atomic structure would make him a real Stephan Hawkins

by black flag June 2, 2004

dead head

1) A fan of the 60's hippy rock outfit The Grateful Dead.
2) To remove the dead seed pod from a plant as part of a pruning reigime. (normally applaied to roses)
3) To give oral sex to a corpse

The dead head was doing a spot of dead heading in his garden.

by black flag June 14, 2004

suburbs

The endless sprawl of identikit mass produced housing that surrounds most towns and cities in the western world. Lacking the rural tranquility of the countryside and the spirit, history and community of the inner cities they are designe to enduce a life numbing stupor into it's inhabitents to keep the 'prolls' under control. Also known as concrete deserts, they are the loneliest, most soul destroying and down right dull places on the face of the planet.

Whitchurch (Bristol UK), Enfield (London), Solihull (Birmingham), Cheedle (Manchester) etc etc etc

by black flag June 8, 2004

ogre

1) Mythological humanoid creature. Orginated from the old English kingdom of Cornwall. Orginally said to be the size of a large man and fed off human flesh, but now taken to be some kind of small giant

2) A vindictive individual, an unreasonable person.

My boss is such an ogre, he made me ork late three times last week and refuses to pay overtime.

by black flag May 31, 2004

Democracy

A failing system of government, which like communism works in principle but fails in practice.
ALL democracies end up serving the needs of rich interest groups and detach themselves from the populous. which inturn results in the majority of the people being governed by a minority.

The current UK and US governments are both cases where a minority vote has put a leader into power against the wishes of the majority.

by black flag June 6, 2004

Washington DC

America's largest open air shooting gallery.

There is yet another sniper on the loose in the US city of Washington DC

by black flag June 1, 2004

Manrock

A form of heavy metal / hard rock which consontraites on writing about blokish type subjects; cars, motorbikes, war, sex, fighting etc. Normally they are european based acts, but there are exceptions. The viking chorus is the most noticable of all manrock cleches

Saxon, Manowar, Thor, Twisted Sister, Dio and Slave Raider are all examples of manrock bands.

by black flag June 27, 2004