Downstrike's definitions

spam riot

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.

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

Pink Floyd

A Progressive Rock band that is typically stereotyped by one of their albums that someone once listened to, when in fact some of their albums started whole new genres of music.

Listen to Pink Floyd on Atom Heart Mother, Meddle and Wish You Were Here and see if you don't hear the foreplay, conception, and birth of New Age Music.

by Downstrike May 29, 2004

trappings

Paraphernalia associated with customs, rituals, and holidays.

Fertility symbols such as eggs, rabbits, and maidens dressed in white are appropriate trappings for Easter if you bear in mind that Easter is a pagan godess of fertility.

by Downstrike May 24, 2004

blowed your doors off

See blow your doors off.

See blow your doors off for example.

by Downstrike May 30, 2004

IMish

Pertaining to use of IMs, Instant Messengers.

No, I said IMish, not Amish. This is not a religion. Futterbingers is an IMish spelling.

by Downstrike May 27, 2005

blood-sucking

adj. Parasitical. See also, blood-sucker.

Blooding-sucking Hellay suct northern California dry through the California Aquesuct.

by Downstrike December 24, 2004

Ashtoreth

The ancient Jewish name for the godess of fertility known in English as Easter.

Ashtoreth was also known to various cultures as Astarte, Eostre, Isis, Vishnu, and Venus.

by Downstrike May 25, 2004