Dan Weyandt's definitions

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kniodakniolfleknilg backwards.

Glinkelfloinkadoink is kniodakniolfleknilg backwards.

by Dan Weyandt January 7, 2020

Peron

n. Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician. After serving in several government positions, including those of Minister of Labour and Vice President of the Republic, he was three times elected as President of Argentina, serving from June 1946 to September 1955, when he was overthrown by a coup d'état, and from October 1973 to July 1974. During his first presidential term (1946-1952), Perón was supported by his second wife, Eva Duarte ("Evita"), and the two were immensely popular among many Argentines. Eva died in 1952, and Perón was elected to a second term, serving from 1952 until 1955. Juan and Evita Perón are still considered icons by the Peronists. The Peróns' followers praised their efforts to eliminate poverty and to dignify labor, while their detractors considered them demagogues and dictators.

Juan and Eva Peron gave their name to the political movement known as Peronism, which in present-day Argentina is represented mainly by the Justicialist Party. The current (as of 2013) President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, is a Justicialist. Critics of Kirchner's administration charged it with corruption, crony capitalism, falsification of public statistics, harassment of Argentina's independent media, and use of the tax agency as a censorship tool, all of which should sound very familiar to observers of the Obama Administration.

by Dan Weyandt August 26, 2013

PETN

n. PETN is an acronym for Pentaerythritol tetranitrate. It is also known as PENT, PENTA, TEN, corpent, penthrite (or—rarely and primarily in German—as nitropenta), is the nitrate ester of pentaerythritol. Penta refers to the five carbon atoms of the neopentane skeleton. PETN is most well known as a secondary explosive. It is one of the most powerful high explosives known, with a relative effectiveness factor of 1.66. PETN mixed with a plasticizer forms a plastic explosive. As a mixture with RDX and other minor additives, it forms another plastic explosive called Semtex as well. PETN was first synthesized in 1891 by Bernhard Tollens and P. Wigand by nitration of pentaerythritol. The production of PETN started in 1912, when it was patented by the German government.

PETN was used by the German Army in World War I. PETN was discovered in the bombs used by the 2001 Shoe Bomber, in the 2009 Christmas Day bomb plot, and in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot.

by Dan Weyandt June 21, 2013

cubic buttload

adj. The greatest amount imaginable. Much more than a heap, a fuckton, an asston, an assload, and even a shitload, or any other word meaning "a great quantity."

The speed limit is 55, not 155, son. You're in a cubic buttload of trouble!

by Dan Weyandt June 7, 2013

drink your own bathwater

v. A metaphor for a person or a group of people believing their own lies and propaganda. The effects of doing this can be comical, e.g., Baghdad Bob, but this is usually the harbinger of the demise of the practitioner(s).

When Mikhail Gorbachev instituted Perestroika and Glasnost, it was obvious that the leadership of the Soviet Union was having a big session of "drink your own bathwater," assuming that Communism was actually about helping workers. Glasnost exposed the average Russian to the lies they had been told, particularly about how awful their standard-of-living was as compared to the West. Subsequently, Gorbachev and the Soviet Union lasted only six years.

by Dan Weyandt March 27, 2013

trauponcracy

n. Literally, "the rule of thugs." While brutality is a key element of any tyranny, a trauponcracy not only is run with brutality, but incompetence and demagoguery as well. I can also include plundering wealth to bribe the masses.

There is a thin line between trauponcracy and incompetocracy.

by Dan Weyandt March 26, 2013

NARFE

n. the "National Active and Retired Federal Employees" Associations. This organization should not be confused with:

Zoroastrians Of Regulated Transportation Employees--ZORTE
Public Organization of Internal Traffic Employees--POITE
Emergency Testers in Regimented Orange Zebras--ETROZ

Despite his constant naming of the organization, Pinky is not a member of NARFE.

by Dan Weyandt March 26, 2013