Monkey's Dad's definitions

SMML

Still Making Me Laugh

Thanks for your note, smml

by Monkey's Dad September 17, 2019

Naybe

Nay, disguised as Maybe, used when you mean "absolutely not" and don't have the courage to say it.

I told him naybe when he asked me out. I don't want to hurt his feelings, but how much clearer can I make it?

by Monkey's Dad January 7, 2020

Icon tact

The care a sports hero or movie star takes to maintain eye-contact and appear humble when expounding on something they know nothing about.

Asked his opinion on the impact of coronavirus on climate change, and also how it felt to see his new action flick streamed instead of released, he looked directly at the host, maintaining icon tact, and began cautiously to espouse his scientific theories.

by Monkey's Dad March 29, 2020

twenty-twenty-phorbia

Fear of the coming year, as twenty-twenty-three draws to a close and 2024 presents potential for catastrophic damage, with A.I. and a certain former president threatening to overturn the world as we have known it.

He had lived through a great deal, yet the prospect of 2024 was inducing twenty-twenty-phorbia, the deep-seated fear of the year ahead.

by Monkey's Dad December 5, 2023

falling on blind eyes

Something which is in front of us, yet cannot or will not be seen.

The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.

Inside the White House, the numbers kept falling on blind eyes, unable to see that infection rates were exploding, that their candidate was massively behind in the polls, that across the country, people were on the march and would not back down.

by Monkey's Dad June 24, 2020

Lebowsker

You've seen him; the guy who unknowingly manifests the style and philosophy of The Dude, played by Jeff Bridges in the Coen brothers' 1998 film, "The Big Lebowski".

"Check out the Lebowsker."
"Wayfarers, bowling shirt, several years late for work?"
"Certain things have come to light, man."
"

by Monkey's Dad July 29, 2023

Gender Reveal

An unsolicited photo of a person's genitalia. The politically correct term for what was long known as "indecent exposure", borrowed from the whole baby-coming-out-party idiocy.

She was neither shocked nor offended by Jared's sending her a dick pic an hour after their first date, as if he was unsure whether he was actually a man. She was fairly certain he was, and was not in need of the gender reveal.

by Monkey's Dad June 14, 2021