ObscuredOne's definitions
Web parody of "Heroes," featuring the discovery of "mutants" who have acquired special (albeit worthless) special abilities that enable them to do nothing more than make fools of themselves.
The Mumbler, the Kick-Back-of-Head Guy, the Man-of-Many-Hats, Cindy the Fist-in-Mouth Cheerleader, the Man Whose Stick-Figure Drawings Predict Useless Information About the Future, and the Pinto-Bean-from-the-Eye Man are all talented in pointless ways; making them...Zeroes!
by ObscuredOne February 24, 2008
Get the Zeroesmug. Another way of calling somebody "chicken" and saboteur simultaneously; indicative of a coward who nevertheless does something bold to inconvenience in some way those around him, only to flee the scene or try unsuccessfully to weasel his way out to avoid repercussions.
Can also be used as a euphemism for "motherfu**er," namely someone who grieves someone else and shows little remorse.
Can also be used by chicken harvesters to insult a particularly stubborn poultry when eluding capture to avoid being butchered for meat.
Can also be used as a euphemism for "motherfu**er," namely someone who grieves someone else and shows little remorse.
Can also be used by chicken harvesters to insult a particularly stubborn poultry when eluding capture to avoid being butchered for meat.
"You're not getting out of this one! You stole my Gatorade, you featherclucker!"
"These featherclucking hens are getting on my nerves!"
"These featherclucking hens are getting on my nerves!"
by ObscuredOne October 25, 2006
Get the feathercluckermug. The Leibniz-Newton Effect, or LNE, signifies when two alike or similar products or ideas are either created or discovered by two different individuals with no clear evidence that Guy 1 and Guy 2 had any influence on each other.
The term is derived from the fact that Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton both discovered calculus, without knowing about each other until after they had both attempted to get their work published.
In the world of animation, it is said to be the effect of two studios coming up with very similar ideas for a movie with no clear proof that one truly did steal the idea from the other.
The term is derived from the fact that Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton both discovered calculus, without knowing about each other until after they had both attempted to get their work published.
In the world of animation, it is said to be the effect of two studios coming up with very similar ideas for a movie with no clear proof that one truly did steal the idea from the other.
With no real solid evidence that either one truly inspired the other, it remains plausible that the release of the eerily similar "Flushed Away" by Dreamworks and "Ratatouille" by Pixar is an instance of the Leibniz-Newton Effect, wherein which great minds think way too much alike.
by ObscuredOne December 3, 2007
Get the Leibniz-Newton Effectmug. In animation:
Re-Written or re-edited to be suited with an American audience in mind. Contrary to popular myth, this does not mean making something worse. However, if something was never good to begin with, then the editing process may do a favor only in not glorifying activities which ought to be illegal all over the world indisputably. It protects all viewers (not just American children) from senseless, stupid glorification of pure evil.
However, defending viewers from the shallowness and near-criminal perversion of the original incarnation does not promise that the edited end product will be good; only that it is less terrible, and therefore, more offensive to perverted snobs who think man-on-man porn should be viewed by toddlers - and then practiced on them!
Americanization of foreign animation often does something to original content that is a dis-service: over-simplifying the themes of the original. The need to conform things to a very simplistic GI Joe vs. Mad Scientist/Neo-Nazis format is a narrative tradition that formed after WWII, and traces of it remain in American writing today as die-hards.
In most anything else:
Altering something foreign to the US to make it more practical and digestible to American consumers. (Or depending on what gets altered, making it more universally edifying or better suited to anyone anywhere with any ounce of self-respect.)
Re-Written or re-edited to be suited with an American audience in mind. Contrary to popular myth, this does not mean making something worse. However, if something was never good to begin with, then the editing process may do a favor only in not glorifying activities which ought to be illegal all over the world indisputably. It protects all viewers (not just American children) from senseless, stupid glorification of pure evil.
However, defending viewers from the shallowness and near-criminal perversion of the original incarnation does not promise that the edited end product will be good; only that it is less terrible, and therefore, more offensive to perverted snobs who think man-on-man porn should be viewed by toddlers - and then practiced on them!
Americanization of foreign animation often does something to original content that is a dis-service: over-simplifying the themes of the original. The need to conform things to a very simplistic GI Joe vs. Mad Scientist/Neo-Nazis format is a narrative tradition that formed after WWII, and traces of it remain in American writing today as die-hards.
In most anything else:
Altering something foreign to the US to make it more practical and digestible to American consumers. (Or depending on what gets altered, making it more universally edifying or better suited to anyone anywhere with any ounce of self-respect.)
Power Rangers is an Americanized reinterpretation of the Super Sentai. It is better, not worse, in the sense that it does not glorify lifting up skirts or grabbing breasts (sexual harassment) as the Super Sentai does. (Beware of anyone who prefers the pro-harassment content - they might live in your neighborhood and have predatory eyes on your sister!) But it dumbs down the evil characters and over-dubs poorly-written dialog in the place of the original dialog.
Americanized food packaging is easier on the eyes of anyone who is not from the Far East. But with extra preservatives in the food, the health improvements are debatable.
Americanized food packaging is easier on the eyes of anyone who is not from the Far East. But with extra preservatives in the food, the health improvements are debatable.
by ObscuredOne February 17, 2008
Get the americanizedmug. A page inside a browser that has a predominantly white background and an error message usually in the center.
These are very common on social networking sites, especially involving browser-based games such as those created by Zynga.
The purpose of a White Page of Death is usually to indicate a failure of communication among the client input (you), the main site's server, and the game site's server.
Or, in the case of a social site's own server failure, to inform you that the server is broken and can't find your information.
These are very common on social networking sites, especially involving browser-based games such as those created by Zynga.
The purpose of a White Page of Death is usually to indicate a failure of communication among the client input (you), the main site's server, and the game site's server.
Or, in the case of a social site's own server failure, to inform you that the server is broken and can't find your information.
1. Typical White Page of Death in Facebook: "There are still a few kinks that Facebook and the makers of Pirates: Rule the Caribbean! are trying to mend out..."
2. Typical MySpace White Page of Death:
"Oops! An error has occurred. Please forward this to the MySpace tech team."
2. Typical MySpace White Page of Death:
"Oops! An error has occurred. Please forward this to the MySpace tech team."
by ObscuredOne April 13, 2009
Get the White Page of Deathmug. A generally insensitive way (especially to Disney fans) of saying "venison burger," often used to taunt young ones about the fact that they are eating venison. (The more internal joke being the idea that almost any kind of meat can be turned into a McDonald's meal.)
by ObscuredOne November 8, 2006
Get the McBambimug.