downstrike's definitions

climb into the handbasket

An invitation to go on a trip, using a handbasket as transportation; derived from the phrase, go hell in a handbasket.

When you climb into the handbasket, be sure to take your lies with you.

by Downstrike November 6, 2006

borrowed time

Mortgaged your home to buy a Rolex.

Seriously, it means to live beyond your life expectancy.

Some of my hard drives used to be in 486es, so they're living on borrowed time.

by Downstrike November 3, 2006

Humbug

What you get if you cross a Hummer with a VW.

What's that he's driving?

Bah! A Humbug!

by Downstrike November 3, 2006

Unemployment Office

A state agency where the unemployed go to get unemployment benefits, under the pretense that they are looking for work.

To go along with the pretense of the unemployed, bureaucrats usually try to get peeps to call the Unemployment Office the opposite of what it is, with euphemisms such as Employment Development Department, in California.

by Downstrike November 2, 2006

mental whiplash

The mental effect of realizing that a basic assumption of your entire life was wrong from day one, usually resulting from a totally new thought, comment, or experience that flies in the face of everything you currently know.

See also; mindfuck.

Mental whiplash is the psychological equivalent maxing out your revs in Third, and then accidentally shifting into Reverse instead of High.

by Downstrike October 23, 2006

octopus

A cat that only has one life left.

This daffynition of octopus appeared in the B.C. Comic Strip, Octopu... er I mean, October Oct... er, I mean October 8, 2006.

by Downstrike October 8, 2006

Life

The first quantity, followed by "the Universe and Everything" of the equation.

The result of the equation, "Life, the Universe and Everything", is 42. Does anyone have the foggiest notion what arithmetical operations to perform on the quantities?

by Downstrike October 8, 2006