Definitions by Mandingoe

Guantanamo Bay 

1. v. {Origin uncertain, but likely from the Spanish aguantar, to bear, endure, put up with + the colloquial no mo', no more} to be unable to bear; to find unacceptable, to refuse to endure for even one second longer.

2. n. {Origin uncertain, but in common use in Arabic-, Pashto-, and Urdu-speaking regions} a. a purgatory. An intermediate floor of hell. b. the mythical final place of confinement of the W and his court, immediately following the Great Upheaval but prior to the Grand Awakening and the Glorious Final Making Amends and Mellowing the Fuck Out Forever After of that nation.

3. n. a vast butterfly-and-wildflower preserve on the Caribbean island of Cuba.

alternate contraction: gitmo
—BEN EHRENREICH

Dick Cheney spent the last years of his life in an outdoor cell in the blazing sun of Guantanamo Bay being forced to listen to "Midnight at the Oasis" nonstop at high decibels. Like most chicken hawks, he didn't last long.

Guantanamo Bay by mandingoe August 9, 2004

civil liberties 

Civil liberties are protections from the power of governments. Examples include:
* freedom of speech,
* freedom of the press,
* freedom of assembly,
* freedom of unwarranted searches by the government,
* trial by jury, and even
* freedom to own an AK.

That's OK, you can have my civil liberties Mr. Ashcroft. I wasn't using them anyway. At least I still have my AK.

civil liberties by mandingoe August 5, 2004

broughten 

We have already said (or know) everything worth saying about this subject.

Expansion of the contraction "that's already been brought up."

Variant: brought

Did any one see the womens' gold medal soccer game? Wow what a game.

Broughten. We were talking about that before you came in.

broughten by mandingoe July 28, 2004

nantucket 

1. a common last word in the first line of limericks

2. an island and town in Massachusetts, which, if the limericks are to be believed, is inhabited by sexually perverse and possibly nymphomaniacal people

The man from Nantucket is a frequent poster to Urban Dictionary.

nantucket by mandingoe July 23, 2004

shinola 

I'm really not sure what this is, but I know it ain't shit.

I'm not that young man from Arcola
Who didn't know shit from Shinola.

shinola by mandingoe July 22, 2004

bounce

to have an email message returned because the intended recipient's mailbox is full, his server is down, or other glitch.

I've been trying to add you to the mailing list using the address you gave me, but the emails keep bouncing.

bounce by Mandingoe July 14, 2004

staircase wit

thinking of the right answer too late; the perfect, usually piercing, riposte that you conceive only when replaying a verbal exchange later in your head

from the French l'esprit d'escalier, the witty repartee you thought of as you're going downstairs to leave

My coworker Ann had taken to calling me "Markus", which I hate. I told her I hated it, and her response was,"It's a term of affection."

I muttered something like "Well it's not".

What I SHOULD have said:
Considering her name, "OK, to cement this 'affectionate' relationship, I'll call you An(n)us."

staircase wit by Mandingoe July 14, 2004