Buce's definitions
The point about chump change, in the sense of money, is that the amount varies with the context. For the divorced papa paying child support, a job that pays $9 an hour offers chump change. For the 50-year-old laid off after 20 years' service, a severance package of $200,000 is chump change. What would count as chump change Cf. rounding off money.
by Buce October 1, 2005
Get the chump changemug. Well, I thought it stood for "no further message"--something to add to the subject line to an email, when the subject line is the email, to save the recipient the nuisance of opening the, um, message. If it does not mean this, it should.
by Buce August 26, 2005
Get the nfmmug. by Buce July 14, 2005
Get the Evaginatemug. What men will settle for after whimpering and wheedling and begging. No confirmed sightings, probbly an urban legend.
by Buce August 7, 2005
Get the pity sexmug. 'Fisk' is developing a meaning that is broader than definition #1 but more constrained than definition #4. It's coming to designate any point-by-point (attempt at) refutation of the other guy's argument. Haven't seen it with a small "f" yet, but surely that will come soon.
by buce September 5, 2005
Get the fiskmug. Guy who gets up about 11 and settles on the patio overlooking the ocean, with his laptop, (in his terry-cloth robe). His 19-year-old assistant brings him a bloody Mary. He says "thanks" in a tone of benign abstraction while he scrolls through his portfolio.
I talked to my bathrobe investors and they had never heard of this guy so I figure he must be a fake.
by Buce October 1, 2005
Get the Bathrobe investormug. As a noun, the list of weblogs (blogs) on your blog that you like, or otherwise want to commend.
As a verb, the tactic of listing another's weblog in the hope that this will induce them to link to yours. Cf. if you don't go to other people's funerals, they won't come to yours.
As a verb, the tactic of listing another's weblog in the hope that this will induce them to link to yours. Cf. if you don't go to other people's funerals, they won't come to yours.
by Buce September 20, 2005
Get the blogrollmug.