Downstrike's definitions

Earthquake Test

This is only a test. Had this been an actual earthquake, your stream of pee would wave to and fro and back and forth in front of you.

In the event of an actual Earthquake, you would probably have peed yourself without getting to a urinal first.

by Downstrike December 26, 2004

visually impaired

Politically correct term for blindness.

He is not blind as a bat! He's visually impaired.

by Downstrike April 8, 2006

Baby Huey

1. A cartoon and comic book character, circa 1940s to 1970s, when comic books were still about comedy, and briefly reappearing in the mid-1990s. He had a peculiar baby-like vocabulary and grammar that included statements like, "I yamn't going to do this any more".

2. A big, fat slob, or a blundering idiot.

3. A style, or lack thereof, in which one's shirt is too short, typically because of the size of the belly, so that the bare belly protrudes quite grossly below it. This is not to be confused with tops that are cropped in order to intentionally display a nice-looking tummy. However, it could easily apply to the bare tummy of a person who is seriously mistaken in the belief that it looks nice.

1. Baby Huey had the mentality and grammar of a baby, in the body of a champion sumo wrestler, and was usually accompanied by his diminutive and aptly-named sidekick, "Cousing" Dimwit.

2. Hey, Baby Huey! Would you get your finger out of your nose long enough to open your eyes and look where you're going?

3. Pull your shirt down; you look like Baby Huey!

by Downstrike December 28, 2005

One-Hit-Wonder

A band or singer that everyone forgets about after their hit song runs its natural course into obscurity, because they can never get back onto the charts again. Most one-hit-wonders are that way because either they can't write their own songs, or their own songs are crap.

Crossover songs and artists are sometimes mistaken for One-Hit-Wonders, because listeners outside their genre don't know who they are. Anyone unfortunate enough to make this mistake is likely to be taken to task by numerous members of the artist's following, because it takes quite a good artist to pull off a crossover hit.

Your own songs just aren't going to cut it. Go find a hit song that no one else has covered in at least 20 years, so the teen audience will think it's new, and maybe you can be a One-hit-wonder.

Some One-Hit-Wonders:

Dean Friedman
Right Said Fred
Gary Numan
Soft Cell
Sammy Johns
The Reflections
The Electric Prunes
The Elegants
Bobby Dray

by Downstrike December 28, 2005

Alt tag

N00b slang for the alt attribute of the HTML img tag. Usage indicates a probability that the person speaking doesn't know the difference between a tag and an attribute.

When people get persnickety with me, saying that my NiDEs don't have Alt tags, I get persnickety back at them, and tell them there's no such thing as an Alt tag, and that I'm not an SEO spammer, so I don't put alt attributes in NiDEs.

by Downstrike May 27, 2006

the big drink

The ocean, sea, lake, or large river, depending on which you mean.

Particularly, the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean.

by Downstrike November 29, 2004

big time

adj. Much more than usual, to the max.

That suct big time!

by Downstrike December 24, 2004