Russell Clark's definitions

recycling of endearments

A common tactic of an Identity Deficit Disorder sufferer. Akin to the regifting practice made famous by Seinfeld, except not with Christmas presents for ones friends, but with endearing nicknames for ones lovers. The cynical practice of pimp daddies everywhere.

Back in High School, whenever I wasn't dating anyone, my best friend Marcus would sometimes kindly invite me out with him on his dates. I started begging off though after a few such get togethers and not just for the obvious reason that this was a kind of weird social practice, but actually mostly because I got sick of seeing how Marcus shamelessly practiced the recycling of endearments like "sweetums", "loviekins" and "babydoll". Of course the girl of the moment was none the wiser to all this.

by Russell Clark December 6, 2006

Dimbulbian

An inhabitant or native of Dimbulbia.

In the land of Dimbulbia, intellectual illumination is ever in short supply.

by Russell Clark November 2, 2003

Prozagra

A fusion of the drug names, Prozac and Viagra. A cocktail of medications or herbal supplements that elevates both mood and libido or produces a beneficial effect on both by elevating either.

Jim must have started on Prozagra or something. Lately he seems to have taken out a new lease on life!

by Russell Clark December 3, 2006

iatrogenia

Of or pertaining to infectious diseases contracted through exposure to a medical treatment or facility or to medical complications caused by a physician's prescribed course of treatment.

Every episode of the popular series, House, MD is an entertaining study in the horrors of iatrogenia.

by Russell Clark December 7, 2006

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 6, 2006

skelatrix

A feminine version of Skeletor of He Man/Masters of the Universe cartoon fame. Any skinny and unattractive or scarecrow-like white female. An SWF survivor of crack or crystal meth addiction.

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. . . Skelatrix . . with the methylated grill.

Bob: "You're crazy, Marcus, if you're suggesting that I . . ." Marcus: "Chill, Bobby Brown, I know you're already hittin' that!"

by Russell Clark December 6, 2006

Forward AWOL Recovery Team

The Forward AWOL Recovery Team, or FART is small body of soldiers, usually including the AWOL soldier's squad leader and several members of the AWOL soldier's own platoon that is informally composed by the Platoon Sergeant and/or Platoon Leader for "executing AWOL recovery procedures." Intelligence as to the nearby whereabouts of the AWOL soldier must be considered reliable and the FART must be fielded and report back to duty before the team members are noticed missing by the Company Commander (CC), unless the CC is complicit and can provide a plausible cover story to the Battalion Commander (BC) to buy time for the FART's operations.

Internal military memos issued by National Guard two star generals and above have made clear that commanders at all levels are to be held accountable for controlling manageable losses, which certainly suggests to lower level commanders a real need for the Forward AWOL Recovery Team (FART). According to these memos, "commanders must retain at least 85 percent of soldiers who are scheduled to end their active duty and 90 percent of soldiers scheduled to ship for Initial Entry Training, and execute the AWOL recovery procedures for every AWOL soldier." It is largely for this reason that the practice by lower level commanders of aggressively and secretly issuing FART's is likely to continue.

by Russell Clark January 13, 2007