appearances matter

A wistful notion from the recent-yet-distant time when people saw each other.
Glancing into her closet, filled with lovingly-chosen clothing she no longer wore, slipping on her plastic coat, her mask and rubber gloves to go 'shopping', she recalled what her mother had taught her when she was young, that appearances matter, and wondered when it would be true again.
by Monkey's Dad May 14, 2020
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Texazuela

Oil prices fall below zero, Texas, the nation's leading crude oil producer, looks in the mirror and sees Venezuela.
Once unimaginable, today US oil prices plunged to minus $40 a barrel, and Texazuela may face economic collapse.
by Monkey's Dad April 20, 2020
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Maskochism

Deriving gratification, sexual or otherwise, from flirting with death by refusing to wear a mask in public, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Knowing he might get infected, he strode barefaced into the crowd, enjoying his maskochism.
by Monkey's Dad June 11, 2020
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ventrolloquist

A person who throws his voice in such a way that, A) it not only seems to come out of someone else's mouth, but, B) gets them to say things online that they don't believe in, C) in order to start Internet arguments and create discord.
Bored with mere chatroom trolling, he upped his game, becoming a master ventrolloquist, taking malicious glee in the conflicts he had instigated, his victims exclaiming, "But... but I never meant to say that!"
by Monkey's Dad March 01, 2020
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mythmatician

A person employed by the current administration to produce impressive figures supporting every false claim, from the crowd size at the inauguration, to the minimally-projected cases of coronavirus,
At yet another ginned-up campaign rally, the incumbent shouted huge numbers, concocted by his mythmatician, as proof that he was universally loved, admired and supported.
by Monkey's Dad March 01, 2020
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Psychodemic

Psychological symptoms brought on by solitary lockdown during an epidemic.
Sleepless, edgy, self-critical and burned out from the abstractions of her computer and phone, she knew these feelings were psychodemic and hoped they would dissipate once freed from her confinement.
by Monkey's Dad April 10, 2020
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peregrination

A country of the lost and wandering.
America after the fall became a peregrination, so many souls, trying to find their way back to a life that once was and would never again be.
by Monkey's Dad March 13, 2020
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