atemperman's definitions

googolplex

The number represented by 1 followed by a googol zeros. Often misspelled as "google", a search engine.

Dude, your mom's so fat, she's like a googolplex pounds.

by atemperman January 24, 2004

PSR

Acronym for "pretty sorry research". Resembles acronyms such as "ESR" and "EPR", which are legitimate scientific terms.

After the laser broke, we were reduced to doing PSR for a month.

by atemperman January 24, 2004

biblical

1. Pertaining to the Bible, the sacred text of Christianity.
2. (slang) Characterizing harsh, serious treatment.
3. (slang) Sexual. Used in the phrase, "in the Biblical sense", esp. applied to the use of the verb "know".

(def. 2): Tony said if we don't get the job done by Friday, he's going to have to get biblical on our asses.

(def. 3): Yeah, I'm really glad I got to know Lisa. Heh, in the biblical sense.

by atemperman January 24, 2004

peni

An attempted humorous pluralization of the word "penis". As with other words from Latin that end with "is", such as "crisis" and "neurosis", "penis" changes the "is" to "es", forming "penes", as "crisis" changes to "crises" and "neurosis" to "neuroses". Only urologists and a handful of other professionals use the word "penes", however, so it is best to stick to the English plural, "pensises".

Duh, where'd all the vaginae and peni go?

by atemperman January 24, 2004

tall

1. The ironically-named smallest size of coffee that can be ordered at certain coffee establishments, such as Starbuck's.

2. Having a long penis.

(def 1.) If I drink anything more than a tall, I'll be up all night.

(def 2.) Andrew may have small hands, but his girlfriend says he's tall.

by atemperman January 25, 2004

verbum

1. Meant to have the same denotation as word, i.e., a term used to indicate agreement or assent or approval. Somewhere between "cool" and "okay". The word is used by people with a rudimentary to thorough knowledge of Latin (in which it means "word"), generally ironically, as it results from the application of an elevated, academic language to a "street" or "ghetto" term. The "v" is usually pronounced as an English "w", as that is how consonantal "v" is pronounced in classical Latin.

X: Hey, I got straight 800s on my GREs!
Y: Verbum!

by atemperman January 25, 2004

octopi

An attempted pluralization of the word "octopus". "Octopus", however, does not pluralize as most other words ending in "-us" borrowed from Latin. The proper Latin plural of "octopus" is "octopodes" (pronounced in English "awk-t@-POE-deez"). Saying "octopodes", however, is like pronouncing the first "r" in "February"--something seldom done and appreciated, however greatly, by very few. Your best bet is just to stick with the good old English pluralization, "octopuses".

While the two syllabontes of our mollusk neurobiology class differed in some ways, they both mentioned a discussion of how octopodes *octopi, while certainly not as intelligent as homines sapientes, were nonetheless the smartest of the invertebrata.

by atemperman January 25, 2004