downstrike's definitions

monopoly

Monopoly: A bored, (pardon the Freudian slip), game.

monopoly: A legal concept that has been legislated out of existence by attorneys, judges, and legislators. Now that all legal definitions of monopoly are unlawful, simply understand this: When a corporation is so big that it doesn't need to worry about whether consumers like doing business with it, because they have no choice, it's a monopoly.

No please, let's not play Monopoly.

See PayOhHell, MyCrudSoft, and Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible.

by Downstrike December 12, 2004

fiction

1. Not fact.

2. Entertainment.

3. Stories.

My favorite genre of fiction is Science Fiction.

by Downstrike May 22, 2004

fictionous

A fictitious word made up by people who don't know words like fictional and fictitious. The people making it up are probably fictional too.

There's no such word, so there's no valid example.

by Downstrike October 7, 2004

I'll try anything once

An expression of the adventurous attitude of the late 60s and early 70s.

I'll try anything once is the only proper response to try it, you'll like it.

by Downstrike October 16, 2004

MLM

Abbreviation for Multi-Level Marketing, a business model in which marketers are paid commissions on the sales of other marketers that they recruit, as well as on their own sales. To qualify as MLM, the business plan must actually focus upon selling a marketable product or service.

Business and marketing n00bs frequently confuse MLM with pyramid schemes, a business model that focuses on paying bonuses for recruiting people, rather than commissions on sales, because the criminals who start pyramid schemes like to scam n00bs and flatter themselves by calling their schemes MLM. They may even pretend to operate an MLM business by forcing marketers to stockpile unmarketable products to pretend they are selling it.

Anyone who calls a pyramid scheme MLM helps the scammers trick their victims.

by Downstrike April 8, 2006

Euphemized

Made to seem less awkward or rude, or to seem politically correct by changing terminology. Frequently amounts to outright lying.

sWindles is frequently euphemized as Windows.

Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible is frequently euphemized as Network Solutions, Incorporated.

by Downstrike September 13, 2004

job security

Anything that may influence circumstances so that one may continue in one's current employment, regardless whether the job actually needs to be performed.

See legislator, lawyer, self-serving, and conflict of interest.

by Downstrike May 21, 2004