StoogeWatcher's definitions

barleyjack

Springfield's term for those from Ogdenville, named after their barley industry

Those barleyjacks are ruining the town.

by StoogeWatcher October 26, 2011

60 Minutes II

A CBS version of the Sunday night staple that ran once a weeknight from 1999-2005. The show was famously controversial for those forged documents that ruined Dan Rather's career.

I wonder if SeeB.S. learned from the 60 Minutes II fiasco

by StoogeWatcher July 30, 2010

Litigation jihad

The act of terror fronts like Hamas-linked CAIR to try and intimidate people into giving in using friviolous lawsuits.

My neighbor was almost a victim of litigation jihad.

by StoogeWatcher January 15, 2013

phony soldier

A person who claims military heroics or credentials, but either exaggerates his service or never served at all. Often supported by the anti-war left until caught. Most famously used by Rush Limbaugh during a 2007 radio show

Jesse MacBeth is the most famous phony soldier, who claimed he served in Iraq, but lasted only 44 days in basic training.

by StoogeWatcher July 30, 2010

cartoon riot

The reaction of Muslims going ballistic in 2006 after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons that parodied Muhammad and Islam

Islam didn't help its case when the cartoon riots happened.

by StoogeWatcher November 21, 2010

Jyllands-Posten

A newspaper first published in Denmark in 1871 that became famous for cartoons of Muhammad published in 2006 that results in Islamist riots. The term is Danish for "Jutland Post".

I wonder how many people outside of Scandanavia knew about the Jyllands-Posten before the controersy

by StoogeWatcher November 21, 2010

TurboTax Timmy

A nickname for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, who used the excuse that he didn't know how to use TurboTax to justify his failure to pay $34,000 in taxes over four years.

TurboTax Timmy controls our tax dollars, but he doesn't even pay his own taxes.

by StoogeWatcher July 30, 2010