8 definitions by Leslie Doppler
Labor is a special interest; breaks for manufacturers like me are the public good. We create wealth - at least for ourselves.
by Leslie Doppler July 22, 2008
A form of self-worship, which permits dishonest politicians to persuade the people to surrender their liberties and even act against their own material interests. See example for details. Often a trait of people who have not themselves contributed to their country anything much that is positive, but are trying to derive honor vicariously. (I except from this definition the actions of combat veterans who sincerely believed, rightly or wrongly, that they were fighting for their country.)
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
by Leslie Doppler July 11, 2008
A rock 'n' roll songwriter and performer who had Urban Dictionary pegged before it existed. Some of the same factors that made UD what it is may also have led Reed into self-destructive substance abuse at one phase of his career.
by Leslie Doppler August 6, 2008
A quality that one would conclude, from browsing through Urban Dictionary and other websites, has died out of the world.
The longer I surf the Web, the more I suspect that kindness is dead. It makes me want to kill myself. Maybe I should go back to just watching television, which only makes me want to kill other people.
by Leslie Doppler August 11, 2008
Originally, satire was a literary form in which the author used irony, sarcasm, and allied rhetorical devices to express indignation against perceived social vices, follies, or oppressions, and to hold the perpetrators up to ridicule and contempt. In the heyday of the National Lampoon, satire meant calling somebody an asshole. Currently, it consists of people submitting definitions to Urban Dictionary in which they call each other gay, retarded, or both.
I'd rather be gay and retarded than the sort of person whose idea of satire is calling someone else gay and retarded. I'd be more likely to get laid.
by Leslie Doppler March 8, 2009
To ruin something by discovering it for the white people. From Cristóbal Colón. who opened the Western Hemisphere to conquest in 1492.
by Leslie Doppler September 15, 2017
The class ring of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA. Of gold alloy, it bears a relief representation of the school's mascot, the beaver, chosen because it is an engineering animal.
I saw more than one brass rat at the Stanford Hillel. Evidently a lot of Jewish MIT graduates end up doing work at Stanford.
by Leslie Doppler May 23, 2010