bulb bride

Usually a dental assistant who marries the dentist she assists in the hope of gaining more ready and constant access to . . . no, not nitrous oxide, but said dentist's financial assets. In return, the assistant covers for and tries her best to enable the dentist's own nitrous oxide addiction. She does this by participating fully in the addiction with him. Also known as a nitrous whore.

Pure nitrous oxide addiction is very rare among health care professionals, being the rarest among the drugs abuse by this group. When addiction does develop, however, it is most commonly part of a poly-drug abuse pattern and is usually the minor component of the addiction as in the case of the "bulb bride" wannabe, who plays up her mild addiction to the NO supply while becoming even more addicted to the credit cards, banking and investment accounts of her nitrous-huffing boss. Bulb brides habitually enter the office on weekends to find their husbands dead asleep in dental operatory chairs with nitrous masks still strapped on and have been known to turn up the nitrous flow to lethal levels, though only after learning the whereabouts and acquiring safe access to their husbands' not inconsiderable financial assets.

by Russell Clark December 06, 2006

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extremiocrity

The characteristic of possessing talents, abilities and knowledge distributed so as to be exceptional in some areas, poor in others and mediocre in none.

George was the least well-rounded person you could imagine - a real study in extremiocrity!

by Russell Clark May 14, 2006

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BLEVE

Acronym for "boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion". This type of explosion is extremely hazardous and can occur during the rupture of a vessel containing pressurized liquid. When the liquid is water, the explosion is usually called a steam explosion. An alternate, whimsical interpretation of the acronym is "Blast Leveling Everything Very Effectively."

A BLEVE can occur in a vessel that stores a substance under pressure where the stored contents coexist at high pressure in both a liquid and gaseous phase, e.g., liquefied petroleum gas. A BLEVE is possible for this type of container where sudden decompression within the container causes a rapid boiling of the liquid contents, resulting in an explosive overpressure at the point of rupture.

A BLEVE can be prevented in the case of a venting gas cylinder by cooling the cylinder with water or foam, taking special care not to extinguish the flame in the process, until the leak is stopped or the cylinder emptied.

by Russell Clark February 06, 2007

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multiple gerb

a sheet of paper, chewed into tiny sections, covered with spit and shaped into a ball, which when thrown forcefully against a flat surface such as a teacher's blackboard completely covers the surface with myriad tiny saliva-drenched paper pieces.

When Brother Martin stepped out of the catechism classroom to take a call, which he did every class period, Ricky spit out onto his hand the multiple gerb he had been nursing and hurled it against the big dry erase board. The tiny spittle covered pieces instantly splattered across the board and around its edges. The splatter of white against white wasn't noticed until having dried thoroughly over the weekend.

by Russell Clark November 25, 2006

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South California

Any bogus place of origin. A term connoting personal or group suspicion about someone's stated place of origin.

Once Jill got Miss "big noise" out of the limelight and talked to her off to the side. . . turned out the lil hobag had crashed the party. Yeah, I asked her where she was from and she said, "South California" hehe!

by Russell Clark December 06, 2006

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