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turning tail

Picture a mongrel putting its tail between its legs and peeing all over it and yelping, ki-yi, ki-yi, ki-yi off into the distance.
turning tail by Downstrike May 27, 2004

sheepish 

1. Passive toward aggression.

2. Naive.

3. An intimidated or embarrassed facial expression.
Sheepish people frequently have sheepish expressions.
sheepish by Downstrike May 27, 2004

Pelican Bay 

The most northern infection caused by spore cast from Los Angeles.
Don't go to Pelican Bay if you don't want to catch the Los Angeles infection.
Pelican Bay by Downstrike May 27, 2004
What one of you needs to get out of if there ain't room for the two of you there.
Get out of Dodge. There ain't room here for the both of us.
Dodge by Downstrike May 27, 2004
To fart; derives from a joke told in in 1995:
A regular nerd heard that there was a nerd convention in town, so he went. What he didn't realize is that it was a techno-nerd convention.

He didn't realize his mistake until he got into a conversation with some other nerds, and they were all bragging about their gadgetry. So he would just nod his head from time to time to act like he understood what they were saying.

Presently, they all heard a tweetling noise, and one of them whipped out such a tiny cellular phone that the nerd thought it must be a toy. But the techno-nerd apologized to the others and took the call while the others waited. He finished the call and they returned to their conversation.

The nerd was impressed and wondered how he could possibly fit in with this group.

Presently, a higher-pitched tweetling sound was heard, another techno-nerd apologized, flipped up what had appeared to be his fingernail and thumbnail to reveal a mic and speaker and held his hand up to his head and took the call.

Now the nerd was intimidated and realized he was totally out of his league. Besides, there was nothing to eat at the techno-nerd convention but pizza and he was starting to get gas. He wondered how he could excuse himself to leave without looking like he was turning tail.

Presently and even higher-pitched tweetling sound was heard, and a third techno-nerd apologized and tapped one of his teeth and an ear, and took his call hands-free. By the time he finished his call, even the other techno-nerds were looking a bit sheepish.

The regular nerd was so tensed up, that he passed his gas even as tightly as he was trying to hold it in, and it produced the highest-pitched sound they'd heard yet. The techno-nerds were all staring at him. Because he was so terrorized himself, he didn't realize that the look in their eyes was pure terror. He had to get away from these guys before they smelled what he'd done, so he thought as fast as he could and and as he was leaving he said, "excuse me, but I have a fax coming in".
fax by Downstrike May 27, 2004
Literally, a blatant, presumably intentional misspelling of the improperly plural adverb form of cool, coolly.

1. Like being cool, only more so.

2. Used as adj.; cool, only more so.

3. n. An oriental ethnic group; reknown in the western U.S. for working in near-slavery conditions to do the hard part of building the first trans-continental railroad.

4. n. An offensive racial, (see race), slur against oriental people.
1. No known example of usage.

2-3. After the coolies finished the project, it must have been real coolies to have a trans-continental railroad.

4. I doubt they ever let the coolies ride on it.
coolies by Downstrike May 26, 2004

moral character 

A quantification of one's moral standards and moral values, and the lengths to which one will go to uphold them in daily life.
If you expect high moral standards of others but don't live by themself, your moral character is useless.