burnt sox's definitions
The trope in every action movie by which the villains, often highly trained soldiers, mercenaries, and hitmen launch an arsenal of every weapon known to man, yet can barely nick our hero or heroine with anything more serious than a flesh wound.
Often paired with the Good-Guy Bullseye, which Our Hero/Heroine uses to bring down a spaceship or aircraft carrier with a single, blindfolded shot from a pea-shooter.
Often paired with the Good-Guy Bullseye, which Our Hero/Heroine uses to bring down a spaceship or aircraft carrier with a single, blindfolded shot from a pea-shooter.
Black Widow saved the day because the Russian hit squad had Bad-Guy Aim, allowing her to destroy the Kremlin by throwing a paper plane at it.
by burnt sox July 30, 2023
Get the Bad-guy aimmug. Delay-sent email.
Your boss works late into the night, but instead of sending you emails at 11:30 pm, she delay-sends them so they arrive at 8 am. You arrive at work with a half-dozen of new tasks that appear just as you're settling to the date. You hate this!
Your boss works late into the night, but instead of sending you emails at 11:30 pm, she delay-sends them so they arrive at 8 am. You arrive at work with a half-dozen of new tasks that appear just as you're settling to the date. You hate this!
Anson arrives at work, sits in his cubicle, logs on. At 7:59 am, his box is empty and he takes a sip of his coffee. Anson turns away for just a second, but when he turns back a minute later, he finds that 8 new emails just appeared in his mailbox. His manic boss wrote the emails overnight and sent to them to arrive at 8. "Aaagh, 8 Mail!! I hate when does that!!
by burnt sox August 27, 2024
Get the 8 Mailmug. Wonk A: Incredible! By the time I read that email thread about the TPS reports, Jane in Marketing and Brad in Finance had fixed the problem... I didn't have to do a thing!
Wonk B: Goggin's Law works in mysterious ways, my friend.
Wonk B: Goggin's Law works in mysterious ways, my friend.
by burnt sox May 16, 2010
Get the Goggin's Lawmug. Gozón, in Cuban Spanish a not always positive description of the person who lives to party and have fun, as their top priority. Hedonist.
That dude Hernandez is the number one gozón. It's
That dude Hernandez is the number one gozón. It's
by burnt sox June 25, 2022
Get the gozonmug. Man, I was going to get that 47-inch Sony flat screen, but Corporate would only sign off on a 32-inch Hitachi.
Sorry, Corporate didn't approve the Vegas weekend. Go on without me.
Sorry, Corporate didn't approve the Vegas weekend. Go on without me.
by burnt sox March 28, 2010
Get the Corporatemug. You checked out or rented an eBook on your e-reader, but you haven't finished as the due date approaches. You disconnect the reader from the internet (airplane mode, for example) so Kindle can't erase the expired book from your reader until you finish: you are Kindlenapping the book.
Damn, I still haven't gotten to the climax of *50 Shades Darker* and I have to work tomorrow. I'll turn off the Wi-Fi so I can Kindlenap it until I have some alone time next weekend.
by burnt sox November 28, 2021
Get the Kindlenapmug. “Gooning is a sort of modernized version of tantric sex/masturbation without the spiritual aspects that have been traditionally associated with it in the past. ... It’s an almost hypnotic, semi-meditative mental state a person can enter after prolonged masturbation.”
The ones who travel furthest for self-pleasure say that, if they edge long enough, they fall into a mind-numbing trance where nothing matters but nutting. Only then can an edger truly claim to be “gooning.”
-- M. Stahl, "THE PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE OF ‘GOONING’ — OR MASTURBATING INTO A TRANCE, Mel Magazine (accessed December 20, 2022)
The ones who travel furthest for self-pleasure say that, if they edge long enough, they fall into a mind-numbing trance where nothing matters but nutting. Only then can an edger truly claim to be “gooning.”
-- M. Stahl, "THE PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE OF ‘GOONING’ — OR MASTURBATING INTO A TRANCE, Mel Magazine (accessed December 20, 2022)
Just when you think you know how to masturbate, someone finds the goon trance. Now you can spend your whole day almost getting off.
by burnt sox December 20, 2022
Get the goon trancemug.