Hugh Johnson's definitions

Berkeley

A politically progressive California city of 110,000 across the Bay from San Francisco.

Home of the Free Speech Movement, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green Day, Counting Crows, and the University of California (Go Bears!) a.k.a. "Cal".

The elements Berkelium (Bk), Californium (Cf), and Americium (Am), among others, were discovered at U.C. Berkeley.

The cradle of the anti-Vietnam war movement (which led to Goveror Ronald Regan tear-gassing his own citizens). Early opponents to the "Patriot Act" and the Iraq war.

First city to:
-- divest (remove investments) from South Africa, accelerating the end of Apartheid.
-- covert its entire diesel fleet to biodiesel fuel.
-- enact a comprehensive smoking ban.
-- voluntarily implement city-wide school busing.
-- implement curb-side recycling.
-- install curb cuts in sidewalks for wheelchairs and bicycles.
-- prohibit the sale of ozone-destroying styrofoan fast-food cups and clam-shell containers.

Barbara Lee, the only U.S. Congressman to vote against giving Pretzeldent Bush the authority to attach Afghanistan and Iraq, represents Berkeley.

Home to the "How Berkeley Can You Be" parade each September.

"When something happens in Berkeley, it spreads."

-- Tom Bates

by Hugh Johnson September 20, 2005

meat planet

A planet, such as Earth, dominated by carbon-based animal organisms.

We live on a Meat Planet.

by Hugh Johnson July 31, 2006

pound

To have sex with a double cheeseburger (see also "pound one" and "I'd hit it"

"McDonalds wants you to pound a double cheeseburger"

"I'd hit it"

by Hugh Johnson April 20, 2005

shit factory

A worthless, good-for-nothing person just taking up valuable space on the planet.

"Why do you hang around with that crackhead? He's just a shit factory"

by Hugh Johnson August 30, 2005

driving the Bronco

An accomplice or accessory to an act.

A reference to A.C. Cowlings driving O.J. Simpson on a nationally televised slow-speed freeway chase after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

"Did you get your little brother drunk at that underage party?"

"Naw, but I guess I was driving the Bronco since I told him about it."

by Hugh Johnson September 6, 2005

snakes on a plane

Manipulative fake internet "viral marketing", taken from the spamming of popular websites such as Urban Dictionary with fake "buzz" promoting a third-rate Samuel L. Jackson movie.

UD Post: That Samuel L. Jackson movie is the best movie ever!
Savvy Guy: The fucking moving hasn't even come out yet -- you're just a victim of snakes on a plane.

by Hugh Johnson September 9, 2006

zoned out

Spaced out, stoned, unaware, oblivious, unconscious, drugged, narcotized.

Derived from the 70's phrase "lost in the ozone", which led to the related terms "ozoned", "zoned", and "zoned out".

I got kinda zoned out listening to Green Day and forgot to finish my term paper.

Dubya got zoned out at the Cabinet meeting and decided to invade Iraq without a legitimate cause.

by Hugh Johnson November 18, 2005