Definitions by Downstrike

% Daily recommended allowance 

An experimental 1980 dietary guide based upon the Pritikin Diet fad diet published in 1979.

% Daily recommended allowance is even worse than the Food Guide Pyramid because it promotes eating 5 out 7 servings of food in the form of carbohydrates without even suggesting that the carbohydrates should come from more than one source.

% Daily recommended allowance by Downstrike June 26, 2004

Delphi Forums 

A web site where individuals host message board forums, and visit each others' forums.

I am the Host of nine forums on Delphi Forums.

Delphi Forums by Downstrike June 19, 2004

Committee Mentality

The collective stupidity that results when a committee forms.

The President of the National Academy of Sciences asked, "What right has the federal government to propose that the American people conduct a vast nutritional experiment with themselves as subjects, on the strength of so very little evidence that it will do them any good?"

However, Committee Mentality was already in motion, and a popular culture icon known as the Food Guide Pyramid came to be.

Committee Mentality by Downstrike June 16, 2004

process

1. Do something, (or at least pretend to).

2. Method of doing something, (or at least pretending to).

3. To chop or mix ingredients as in a food processor.

4. To compute.

If this blasted computer doesn't stop pretending to process stuff and find some process for completing the process I assigned it, I'm going to put its processor into a blender and process it but good!

process by Downstrike June 9, 2004

hanky panky 

Discreet or surreptitious romantic or sexual activity. See hankey pankey for origins.

There was hanky panky going on under the table during our meeting.

hanky panky by Downstrike June 8, 2004

hankey pankey 

The performing magician's art of distracting the audience while surreptitiously playing tricks on them.

He kept distracting us with hankey pankey so we didn't notice how he pulled off the the stunts.

hankey pankey by Downstrike June 8, 2004

c2c 

Consumer to Consumer. See also, b2b and b2c.

c2c means conducting business between consumers instead of with a business.

Yard sales and eBay auctions are examples of c2c.

c2c by Downstrike June 7, 2004