slim-dunk

Putting a brave face on a move with only a slight chance of succeeding.

At this moment, getting the job was a slim-dunk, but maybe self-confidence would help.

by Monkey's Dad March 24, 2020

Amanda Gorman

The 22-year-old poet who spoke with poise and eloquence at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, reading her poem "The Hill We Climb". Ms. Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in United States history, earned wide praise and admiration for her contribution to an event regarded, by several measures, as historically significant.

Amanda Gorman joins a small group of poets who have graced a presidential inauguration with their words, among them Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco.

From "The Hill We Climb", she read:
"And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished."

by Monkey's Dad January 24, 2021

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 07, 2020

Call me!

"Call me" means "call me". It does not mean anything else. When spoken by a woman to a man it does not, for example, mean; "I want to go out with you". It does not, as the man often thinks, mean; "I find you devastatingly attractive". Once he calls, he has done exactly what she told him to do. She has gotten acknowledgement that he finds her desirable, which is what she wanted. When she does not take his call, and does not call him back, he thinks... "But... she told me to call her". He is 100% correct.

Here's my mobile. Here's my email. Here's my work number. Call me!

by Monkey's Dad February 18, 2020

incringement

Violating the boundaries of another person in a way that make both parties intensely uncomfortable.

Her questions, on their first date, about the most intimate details of his personal history, all the women in his past, why he was single, his income, prospects for advancement and whether he had any communicable diseases, constituted an extreme incringement of his dignity.

by Monkey's Dad March 04, 2025

gate

1) A new word, entered here, meaning the opposite of "negate". A positive counter to "negate's" negative. To gate is to affirm, verify, support, confirm, validate, agree.

Also...
2) A hinged barrier used to close an aperture in a wall, fence, or hedge.
3) A suffix denoting any kind of scandal, real or imagined - "Pizzagate" - following the 1972 Nixonian Watergate imbroglio, itself named for a Washington Hotel.

She entered the courtroom, confident that the DNA evidence, supported by eyewitness testimony, would gate her client's claim of innocence.

by Monkey's Dad March 28, 2021