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

MyCrudSoft

The real name of Bill Gates' company; he just doesn't want you to know it. See also, mikerowesoft.

That's why, if you use the correct spelling of MyCrudSoft, the MyCrudSoft spellchecker will try to change it to the spelling Billy wants you to use.

by Downstrike August 15, 2004

slanguage

Slang language. Originally referred to the slang language used by CBers in the 70s.

Slanguage daffynitions can be gnarly, or they can be boge.

by Downstrike September 15, 2004

Real Life

I don't know. Tell me where to download it, and I'll check it out.

Good grief! I can't believe no one already said this.

by Downstrike May 23, 2004

prequel

In literature and entertainment, a sequel in which the events depicted or described take place before the introductory story. This practice originated with George Lucas, who started producing the Star Wars series with the fourth episode in the mid-1970s.

The Phantom Menace is a prequel to the original Star Wars movies.

by Downstrike May 22, 2004

same smell

1. What you said means the same thing as what I said first.

1. The meaning of what you said is so close to what I said first, that it might as well be the same thing.

"The sky is dark."

"It's cloudy out."

"Same smell."

by Downstrike May 25, 2004