Presidential

High quality, as in the liquor you save only for your best friends.

I keep the Chivas with the Presidential in the back of the cabinet.

by unidyne November 26, 2003

televangelist

A religious preacher, almost always Evangelical Christian, who preaches on paid television programs. The term is a fusion of "Television" and "Evangelist", and with recent scandals involving sexual and/or financial wrong-doings among televanngelists, the term has a negative influence.

The televangelist proclaimed that if you sent money to his ministry, God would reward you.

by Unidyne March 12, 2005

Rube Goldberg

An unlikely and absurdly designed machine intended to perform a simple function in the most complicated and indirect way. Named in honor of Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970), an engineer with the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department who became a Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author. His long-running comic strip, "Inventions", displayed many such devices of his own design.

My Grandfather built his own fuel injector with a Rube Goldberg set-up made of old plumbing parts.

by Unidyne December 30, 2003

Twilight Zone

A state of surrealism, where things that should not make sense seem to do so. Term taken from the 1960's TV show hosted by writer Rod Serling.

Carl just found out that his father, the one he thought was dead, is still alive! How Twilight Zone can you get!

by Unidyne December 14, 2003

twilight zone

Scuba diving term for the point where sunlight no longer penetrates the water.

We dove so far down, we reached the twilight zone.

by Unidyne December 14, 2003

straight 8

A now obsolete type of automobile engine that used eight cylinders in a row, instead of two rows as a V-8 engine does.

The old roadster had a straight 8 engine.

by Unidyne March 12, 2005

straight 6

A now obsolete automobile engine that had six cylinders in a row, instead of two rows as a current V-6 engine.

My old Chevy Nova had a straight 6 engine.

by Unidyne March 12, 2005