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GCE is an acronym for "gross conceptual error". Originating in the nuclear navy, the acronym is used to point out when someone's logic is severely flawed.
Ted: You'd think that the water out of the water softener would taste salty with as much salt as we add to soften it up.
Ralph: Dude, GCE. The salt doesn't go into the water, it replenishes sites on the ion exchanger!
Ralph: Dude, GCE. The salt doesn't go into the water, it replenishes sites on the ion exchanger!
by Kate Sjostrand February 19, 2008
Get the GCE mug.Ted: Hey, I was watchin some gay porn last night, and two bottoms were rammin asses with this weird thing in between them.
Ralph: Oh yeah? It was probably a swedish dildo.
Ralph: Oh yeah? It was probably a swedish dildo.
by Kate Sjostrand April 1, 2008
Get the swedish dildo mug.An ambiguous entity that typically occupies the upper floors of buildings belonging to corporations. Management creates policies, procedures, and various directives designed to stagnate a workforce’s creativity while simultaneously providing obstacles to the accomplishment of work.
Ted: Oh, my God! Now I have to fill out this stupid checklist and run it through QA before I can start the machine after shift changeover.
Ralph: That’s management for you.
Ralph: That’s management for you.
by Kate Sjostrand February 19, 2008
Get the management mug.A Latino variant of the word written, describing the formation (as characters or symbols) on a surface (paper, cardboard, wall, etc.) with an instrument (pen, pencil, can of spraypaint, etc.). The refusal to enunciate the double “t” sound is most often utilized by Latino women.
by Kate Sjostrand February 22, 2008
Get the wri'en mug.The conclusion to the democratic process employed by various locals said to represent the will of the people. It is often achieved through a process known as counting, whereby a perceived majority claims victory over the perceived minority (please note that actual numbers are seldom referenced until they have been placed into the appropriate provisional ballot box where they are deemed as false votes and duly discarded until the desired result has been achieved).
Ted: Hey, did you hear that Obama won the election in New Mexico?
Ralph: Really? What was the election result?
Ted: All of the delegates went to Hillary.
Ralph: Really? What was the election result?
Ted: All of the delegates went to Hillary.
by Kate Sjostrand February 14, 2008
Get the election result mug.Recession is the decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. The term recession, however, has been utilized in recent decades by politicians to distort the economic outlook and reframe in more positive terms rather than have to address the looming economic depression.
Ralph: Dude, the feds just lowered interest rates and backed a takeover of a large investment bank after acknowledging that we might be in a recession.
Ted: This recession's been going on since Bush took over. How long until we call it an economic depression?
Ted: This recession's been going on since Bush took over. How long until we call it an economic depression?
by Kate Sjostrand March 21, 2008
Get the recession mug.a Latino variant of the word mitten, only without the enunciation of the "t" sound. The word carries the same meaning, specifically referring to a glove where the primary fingers are contained in one side of the parsel and thumb is kept separate. The refusal to enunciate the double "T" sound is most often utilized by Latino women.
Maria: (looking down at Teresa's hands) Oh my God! Where are your mi'ens?
Teresa: Eeeee, I couldn't find them.
Teresa: Eeeee, I couldn't find them.
by Kate Sjostrand February 20, 2008
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