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Special concluding segment of Bill Maher's HBO political satire and late night talk show where questions submitted to the show from Bloggers are discussed. The segment title is an obvious nod to one of Dave Chappelle's similarly titled comedy skits, starring comedian Chris Rock.
Maher: "It's time for our end-of-the-show, Blogga, please! segment - this is where people blog in and we get the questions right from people off the Internet".
Blogga: What do you think of the UFOs over Texas? . . .
Maher: “UFOs are a lot more likely, than a space God flew down bodily, and who you know is the son of God, and had sex with a Palestinian woman.”
Blogga: What do you think of the UFOs over Texas? . . .
Maher: “UFOs are a lot more likely, than a space God flew down bodily, and who you know is the son of God, and had sex with a Palestinian woman.”
by Russell Clark February 3, 2008
Get the Blogga, please! mug.Promoting the productive or creative energies of those possessing slack. Pertaining to the productivity of a slacker. Any slack promoting or releasing agent.
Billy cobbled together his most ambitious spot welded compositions while chilling to the slackergic riffs of Ska and Rasta music.
by Russell Clark December 7, 2006
Get the slackergic mug.A term denoting the very visible damage to dentition inevitably caused by long term crystal meth use and which is usually accompanied by unnatural weight loss/muscular wasting and an acne-mottled and/or pasty complexion. The unattractive smile typically displayed by a skelatrix.
Marcus: "Hey He Man, check out your arch rival standing there at the edge of the bar." Bob: "you mean the skinny girl over there with the big hair?" Marcus: "Yeah, that's what's her name. . . Parish Chilton . . with the methylated grill.
Bob: "You're crazy, Marcus, if you're suggesting that I'm . . ." Marcus: "Chill, Bobby Brown, I know you're already hittin' that!"
Bob: "You're crazy, Marcus, if you're suggesting that I'm . . ." Marcus: "Chill, Bobby Brown, I know you're already hittin' that!"
by Russell Clark December 6, 2006
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Get the honegry mug.Otherwise known as IDD, a relatively rare disorder characterized by a notable lack of original, which is to say, innovative, interesting or humorous ideas. Like Rabies, the first symptom of this "disease" is a developing fear in the victim that they may indeed be a sufferer. This leads the sufferer of IDD to develop various tactics and strategies for masking this deficit of metaphysical presence, for example, keeping one's mentor(s) in the closet and isolated from one's social circles so that one's frequent parroting of the mentor's wisdom and witticisms is not detected and can be passed off as one's own. Another common tactic of a sufferer of IDD is the practice of recycling of endearments.
The character Howard Crick played by Will Farrell in the popular film, Stranger than Fiction (2006) provides us with as good an example as any of a person suffering from what might be termed "identity deficit disorder".
What Derrida has effectively accused all thinkers of suffering from when he proved that metaphysical presence is mere illusion.
Tommy frequently recycled the ideas and suggestions of his friends and acquaintances. And in this way at least put up a passable appearance of having a personality to call his own. If Tommy ever did have an idea of his very own no one ever knew it since it'd invariably die on the vine before he could tell anyone.
What Derrida has effectively accused all thinkers of suffering from when he proved that metaphysical presence is mere illusion.
Tommy frequently recycled the ideas and suggestions of his friends and acquaintances. And in this way at least put up a passable appearance of having a personality to call his own. If Tommy ever did have an idea of his very own no one ever knew it since it'd invariably die on the vine before he could tell anyone.
by Russell Clark December 6, 2006
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Every episode of the popular series, House, MD is an entertaining study in the horrors of iatrogenia.
by Russell Clark December 7, 2006
Get the iatrogenia mug.Primarily the Bambi Effect designates the emotional trauma, usually mild and transitory experienced by hunters and trappers when viewing close up a dead or dying and suffering neotenous, i.e., "cute and adorable" animal for whose death and suffering they suddenly acknowledge some responsibility.
Guilt experienced by a hunter as he suddenly identifies with the suffering of an animal which he has killed. The name is a reference to the classic Disney film, Bambi, in which the tragic climax to the story is reached as the protagonist's (Bambi's) mother is killed by hunters.
Secondarily the effect pertains to the reaction of witnesses to scenes of the brutal killing of said neotenous animals, e.g., harp seal pups clubbed by Canadian hunters.
Guilt experienced by a hunter as he suddenly identifies with the suffering of an animal which he has killed. The name is a reference to the classic Disney film, Bambi, in which the tragic climax to the story is reached as the protagonist's (Bambi's) mother is killed by hunters.
Secondarily the effect pertains to the reaction of witnesses to scenes of the brutal killing of said neotenous animals, e.g., harp seal pups clubbed by Canadian hunters.
The black limpid pools for eyes of small, helpless harp seal pups connote childlike innocence, and it was the oft repeated images in the mass media of the clubbing of seal pups that caused an outcry in the 1970's to protect the pups from Canadian hunters. Strangely, the continual slaughter of bonobo apes, who are genetically closest to humans or of West African elephants, orders of magnitude more intelligent and consciously aware than any seal pup, never provoked nearly the same amount of public concern and outrage against animal cruelty. This seeming ethical inconsistency is no doubt owing to the differential operation of the Bambi Effect upon witnesses to images of human-caused animal suffering.
by Russell Clark January 3, 2007
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