Downstrike's definitions
Late 70s and 80s slang, adj. As groovy and as it gets. Too cool to be just a passing fad, like saying tubular turned out to be.
Derived from a way cool 1973 album, titled Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield.
Vals picked up the word and that was the death of saying tubular. If it weren't for so many Vals saying, like tubular that other people associated it with Valspeak, people wouldn't have become afraid to continue saying tubular when Valspeak went out of style.
Derived from a way cool 1973 album, titled Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield.
Vals picked up the word and that was the death of saying tubular. If it weren't for so many Vals saying, like tubular that other people associated it with Valspeak, people wouldn't have become afraid to continue saying tubular when Valspeak went out of style.
Even now, Peeps are still grooving to Tubular Bells, and they figured out by the 80s that it wasn't just a passing fad, so anything groovy enough to outlast a fad became tubular. It's too bad saying tubular wasn't tubular.
by Downstrike May 18, 2006
Get the tubularmug. by Downstrike November 1, 2004
Get the the big housemug. A piece of software, usually something lame that was installed by default with your OS, that takes over when your PC thinks you're not using it any more.
Some screensavers are cute, like Viking Kittens, and some have a purpose, like Make Love Not Spam, but most are just unimaginative lameness that installed by default with sWindles.
by Downstrike December 1, 2004
Get the screensavermug. 1. Psychologically induced, irrational fear of something that should not be all that scary.
2. In common usage, phobia is nothing more than something to accuse others of having when one wants to discount their opinions and be excused to behave in a way that they think is wrong.
2. In common usage, phobia is nothing more than something to accuse others of having when one wants to discount their opinions and be excused to behave in a way that they think is wrong.
1950s:
You shouldn't do that!
Fraidy cat!
1990s to present:
That's disgusting!
Don't tell me you have a phobia!
You shouldn't do that!
Fraidy cat!
1990s to present:
That's disgusting!
Don't tell me you have a phobia!
by Downstrike October 24, 2004
Get the Phobiamug. 1. euphemism for a small busybody, frequently mounted on the ceiling, that tattles every time anyone cooks anything or takes a shower.
2. Good excuse to have a migraine.
3. Might even alert peeps to smoke too, if it didn't run its batteries down doing false alarms.
4. Never taken seriously due to false alarms. See also, cry wolf.
2. Good excuse to have a migraine.
3. Might even alert peeps to smoke too, if it didn't run its batteries down doing false alarms.
4. Never taken seriously due to false alarms. See also, cry wolf.
The landlord had to put in smoke alarms to satisfy fire code and insurance. The rents had to take the batteries out of the little ijits to preserve our sanity.
The whole complex burned down because a neighbor left the batteries in his smoke alarm, so when another neighbor's smoke alarm went off, he thought it was a false alarm.
The whole complex burned down because a neighbor left the batteries in his smoke alarm, so when another neighbor's smoke alarm went off, he thought it was a false alarm.
by downstrike April 26, 2006
Get the smoke alarmmug. c2c means conducting business between consumers instead of with a business.
Yard sales and eBay auctions are examples of c2c.
Yard sales and eBay auctions are examples of c2c.
by Downstrike June 7, 2004
Get the c2cmug. 1. A group of people that lynches someone who was accused of something, but who was never tried for it.
2. The group of people who lynched Jesus, even though he was tried and found innocent.
3. The masses of people who celebrate a lynching by displaying replicas, from their necks and on their homes and churches, of the weapon used in a lynching.
2. The group of people who lynched Jesus, even though he was tried and found innocent.
3. The masses of people who celebrate a lynching by displaying replicas, from their necks and on their homes and churches, of the weapon used in a lynching.
90 years ago, a lynch mob used a weapon made of rope to lynch my paternal grandfather.
2,000 years ago, a lynch mob used a weapon made of wood to lynch my Eternal Father.
I won't insult the memory of either one of them by displaying a replica of the injustice committed against either one of them.
2,000 years ago, a lynch mob used a weapon made of wood to lynch my Eternal Father.
I won't insult the memory of either one of them by displaying a replica of the injustice committed against either one of them.
by Downstrike November 8, 2004
Get the lynch mobmug.