Elián González

A little, five-year-old Cuban boy who made headlines in 1999 by surviving the trip to Florida from Cuba in an inner tube. His mother died to get him to Florida, but she made the mistake of naming him a name that sounded far too much like the word, alien in English, and having him fathered by a man who would have nothing to do with Elián until being Elián's father was suddenly very patriotic.

If Elián González wasn't named a name that sounds like alien in English, maybe the feds wouldn't have been so obsessed with sending him home, or scared him into going back to Cuba by shoving an assault rifle in his face.

by Downstrike August 14, 2006

mental whiplash

The mental effect of realizing that a basic assumption of your entire life was wrong from day one, usually resulting from a totally new thought, comment, or experience that flies in the face of everything you currently know.

See also; mindfuck.

Mental whiplash is the psychological equivalent maxing out your revs in Third, and then accidentally shifting into Reverse instead of High.

by Downstrike October 23, 2006

borrowed time

Mortgaged your home to buy a Rolex.

Seriously, it means to live beyond your life expectancy.

Some of my hard drives used to be in 486es, so they're living on borrowed time.

by Downstrike November 03, 2006

bullied

1. adj. subjected to bullying.

2. v. past tense of bully.

We say that someone is bullied because someone else bullied him.

by Downstrike September 13, 2004

gotspamit

God damn it, my inbox is full of spam!

Gotspamit, there's nothing here worth reading!

by Downstrike May 28, 2004

when

1. Conditional, based upon time, event, or circumstances.

2. Slang, specific to junk mail advertising lotteries and sweepstakes to persuade as many duh-weebs as possible who haven't even entered a sweepstakes that they have already won: "if".

1. When you finish your chores, you may play; when it's dark, come inside.

2. You are guaranteed to win at least $250,000 when you return the winning number to us. (The fact that the recipient does not have the winning number, so he may as well go fly a kite, is not expressed.)

by Downstrike October 17, 2004

Asia Minor

The Turkish peninsula.

To the people of ancient Greece, everything east of Byzantium was Asia. They just had no idea how big it was until Alexander went and conquered some of Asia Major.

by Downstrike May 30, 2004