37 definitions by disco stu
often capitlaized, it refers to a series of sci-fi RPGs produced by Ambrosia Software. All three games, Escape Velocity, EV Overide, and EV Nova, are able to be modified with files known as plugins, thus making the game way more fun. Escape Velocity and EV Overide are only for Macs. EV Nova is for both Mac and PC.
by disco stu September 25, 2003
A corperate controlled and promoted high school "institution." The corperations really benifit from the money you spend on the prom, not you school. Save your money, and your life, and stay home that night.
by disco stu September 25, 2003
1. An incident in New Mexico in 1947 that was supposedly wreckage from a crashed flying saucer. Later explained by the government to be a weather balloon, the Roswell incident has become a holy grail of sorts for conspiracy theories and ufologists. In the 70s, "evidence" surfaced that there were bodies recovered, even though witnesses to the original incident made no mention of bodies.
2. A really bad WB show about alien teenagers, and their efforts to fit in with the typical, immature high school community.
2. A really bad WB show about alien teenagers, and their efforts to fit in with the typical, immature high school community.
by disco stu December 8, 2004
A character in two tragdies by Sophocles, "Oedipus Rex" and "Oedipus at Colonus." When he was born it was prophesized that Oedipus would grow to murder his father, and marry his mother. His father, King Laios of Thebes, ordered his shepard to kill him, but instead he gave him to the king of Corinth. When he grew up, he learned about his destiny, but belived that his Corintian parrents were his biological parrents, he fled to Tebes. There he ran into his real fother on the road, and after a dispute killed him. However, Oedipus was able to save the city of Tebes from sphynx and was offered his mother's hand in marrige. The play "Oedipus Rex" takes place a number of years after that incodent. Thebes is undergoing a plague Oedipus learns the truth about his heritige, and so his mother/wife kills herself, and he blinds himself, and is baneshed from Thebes. In "Oedipus at Colonus" he is about to die, and is purifing himself, to be buried as a Greek hero. However, civil war has broken out in Thebes between is two sons, and they want to try and get Oedipus' body back to Thebes, so that one of the sons might win.
Oedipus is the ultimate tragic hero. All others, such as Hamelt, or Romeo, don't hold a candle to him.
by disco stu October 7, 2003
A philosophical school which attempts to link African peoples togheter, especialy those in America with those in Africa. Sometimes, however, it makes claims which are not true. For example, they claim that Africa is the heart of human science and technology. However, much of human science and technology developed independently in different parts of the world, at different times. Sometimes they will make anti-semitic claims.
by disco stu September 25, 2003
A nutty radio talk show host who has paranormal guests on. Examples include ufologists, supposed alien abductees, and psychics predicting the end of the world.
by disco stu December 8, 2004