Definitions by PBMax

In Orbit Yellow 

Black people with extremely fair complexions (because they're so HIGH yellow it's like they're in orbit around the earth).

JASON: Why aren't there any Black people in Guitar Hero?
DERON: There's Tom Morello; he's actually Halfrican.
JASON: But he's in orbit yellow; he'd ruin the curve on the brown paper bag test!
DERON: One-drop rule.

In Orbit Yellow by PBMax May 1, 2008

Pathection 

The purest, Plantonic manifestation of being pathetic.

Douglas achieved pathection by choosing to "Reply-All" because he didn't realize most of the recipients wouldn't care about him.

Pathection by PBMax April 17, 2008

bonadroit 

Skillful and/or clever — i.e. the opposite of maladroit. Although it denotes the same characteristics as adroit, it has the added value of making its user appear even more pompous. Humorously ironical employment is possible, iff the speaker's swagger was phenomenal.

Nobody who was socially bonadroit would actually use the word "bonadroit," as it just confuses people.

bonadroit by PBMax March 9, 2008

Paradour 

Someone you like but don't like-like. A pun on paramour and adore. Rarely reciprocal, because what really is in this crazy, mixed-up world?

After she broke up with him, Guillermo couldn't help but become Leah's paradour, but she had hurt him too much for them to ever get back together.

Paradour by PBMax March 9, 2008

groupie tendencies 

The likelihood of an individual to adore/follow otherwise-peers.

Groupie tendencies need not involve any sexual desire. In fact, those with extreme groupie tendencies ask nothing of their (usually reluctant) paradours save acceptance of an unequal relationship. Such cases — while sometimes able to acknowledge the pathetic aspects of their attitude — feel a righteous indignation about their actions.

Even though he was an able leader in school, Kobe's groupie tendencies arose around his cousins at home.

groupie tendencies by PBMax March 9, 2008

Backhanded Insult

A compliment couched in the form or tone of an insult. Often used by people who *want* to be nice, but fear being seen as weak or disingenuous, but can be unintentional.

When Maurice told Mary she was "the least photogenic pretty chick" he'd ever seen, he meant that pictures didn't do her beauty justice, but it came off as a backhanded insult.

Backhanded Insult by PBMax February 24, 2008

Sighness infection 

A mood where you feel like sighing all the time. Usually the "infected" are unhappy, but may also be wistful or any other emotion which produces sighs. Not to be confused with clinical depression, which is more persistent but not necessarily more intense.

May also be called "sighnessitis."

Rubi contracts a sighness infection every time she thinks about how her sister Reema got into Harvard but she didn't.

Sighness infection by PBMax February 24, 2008