Leslie Doppler's definitions

Colónize

To ruin something by discovering it for the white people. From Cristóbal Colón. who opened the Western Hemisphere to conquest in 1492.

We got to watch Miley Cyrus totally colónize twerking

by Leslie Doppler September 14, 2017

brass rat

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

satire

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

Kindness

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 October 6, 2008

Lou Reed

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.

"And everybody puttin' everybody else down"
-- Lou Reed, "Heroin"

by Leslie Doppler October 1, 2008

Beatles birthday

One's sixty-fourth birthday, in reference to the Beatles song "When I'm Sixty-Four".

Lisa said she was having her Beatles birthday, but her husband Harry said she was a million years old in binary.

by Leslie Doppler August 21, 2008

special interest

A "special interest" is one I do not share. One I do share is "the public good".

Labor is a special interest; breaks for manufacturers like me are the public good. We create wealth - at least for ourselves.

by Leslie Doppler August 16, 2008