Downstrike's definitions
The horrific emaelstrom that ensues after a spammer discovers that some careless email newsletter sender has left his email server open, allowing the spammer to send an offensive message to all the newsletter's subscribers, making it appear that the offensive message is from the newsletter.
Since most of the subscribers were wondering how the heck they got on the "newsletter" to begin with, their automatic reaction to the offensive message is to reply with rude, and sometimes threatening, demands to be unscubscribed. The server then relays all the rude replies to all the subscribers.
The replies from the subscribers who receive the rude replies run from legalistic to tearful, to even more rude and threatening than the original rude replies.
Perhaps one subscriber out of a hundred will recognize that none of the offensive and rude messages were intended specifically for himself. He may even try to persuade the rioters to calm down, but few of them will notice his pleas for reason amongst all the crap in their inboxes.
Since most of the subscribers were wondering how the heck they got on the "newsletter" to begin with, their automatic reaction to the offensive message is to reply with rude, and sometimes threatening, demands to be unscubscribed. The server then relays all the rude replies to all the subscribers.
The replies from the subscribers who receive the rude replies run from legalistic to tearful, to even more rude and threatening than the original rude replies.
Perhaps one subscriber out of a hundred will recognize that none of the offensive and rude messages were intended specifically for himself. He may even try to persuade the rioters to calm down, but few of them will notice his pleas for reason amongst all the crap in their inboxes.
I get caught in a spam riot at least once every year or two. When that happens, I typically receive about 200 email messages per hour.
by Downstrike July 1, 2005
Get the spam riotmug. by Downstrike October 8, 2005
Get the web marketermug. 1. To hang out together, as in a clique, either out of loyalty or attraction to one another, out of disdain for others, or out of desperation when no one else will hang with you.
2. To take the heat together, either out of loyalty to one another, or when given no choice. Derives from the stereotypical lynching, which involves hanging from a noose.
2. To take the heat together, either out of loyalty to one another, or when given no choice. Derives from the stereotypical lynching, which involves hanging from a noose.
1. No one else will have them, so the duh-weebs hang together.
2. If a lynch mob finds you with that perv when they catch him, you'll hang together.
2. If a lynch mob finds you with that perv when they catch him, you'll hang together.
by Downstrike August 30, 2005
Get the hang togethermug. 1. n. A specific cartoon TV clown from the 50s and 60s, originally in B&W.
2. n. Any old clown.
3. n. Annoying person.
4. n. A chat or message board troll.
5. n. A feature of About and Delphi Forums, and some other Prospero Technologies message boards that allows a moderator to surreptitiously silence a bozo (3).
6. v. To use the bozo feature on a message board; p.t., bozoed. Bozoed is also the adj. describing the condition of one subjected to the bozo feature.
2. n. Any old clown.
3. n. Annoying person.
4. n. A chat or message board troll.
5. n. A feature of About and Delphi Forums, and some other Prospero Technologies message boards that allows a moderator to surreptitiously silence a bozo (3).
6. v. To use the bozo feature on a message board; p.t., bozoed. Bozoed is also the adj. describing the condition of one subjected to the bozo feature.
by Downstrike September 28, 2004
Get the bozomug. The power or ability to cause the wounds or illnesses of others to heal, whether through the practice of medicine, or other methods.
by Downstrike May 23, 2004
Get the healingmug. The best domestically produced mineral water, much better than Perrier or that Italian stuff. Like some of the other better things there are to drink, it comes from the geothermal region of California's Wine Country.
Their regular, non-sparkling spring water is just re-branded Arrowhead water, which is the result of both Calistoga and Arrowhead having been bought out by Nestlé.
Their regular, non-sparkling spring water is just re-branded Arrowhead water, which is the result of both Calistoga and Arrowhead having been bought out by Nestlé.
by Downstrike October 24, 2004
Get the Calistogamug. Cellular communication; how an amoeba communicates. You know; amoebae, like really, really small people.
Hey, lookit the cell phone under this microscope!
Of course it is! Can't you see that the one amoeba's phoning another one?
Of course his phone is cellular. What other kind would an amoeba have?
(If you're saying this out loud, it would be good to duck now and then, in case someone was going to hit you.)
Of course it is! Can't you see that the one amoeba's phoning another one?
Of course his phone is cellular. What other kind would an amoeba have?
(If you're saying this out loud, it would be good to duck now and then, in case someone was going to hit you.)
by Downstrike November 18, 2006
Get the cell phonemug.