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tubular

Late 70s and 80s slang, adj. As groovy and as it gets. Too cool to be just a passing fad, like saying tubular turned out to be.

Derived from a way cool 1973 album, titled Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield.

Vals picked up the word and that was the death of saying tubular. If it weren't for so many Vals saying, like tubular that other people associated it with Valspeak, people wouldn't have become afraid to continue saying tubular when Valspeak went out of style.
Even now, Peeps are still grooving to Tubular Bells, and they figured out by the 80s that it wasn't just a passing fad, so anything groovy enough to outlast a fad became tubular. It's too bad saying tubular wasn't tubular.
by Downstrike May 18, 2006
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A sarcastic version of, "that wasn't very nice", "you shouldn't have said that", "ewww, grody", or "TMI".

Variant: You could have gone all day without saying that.
Did you see all those girls clustering around your ex? I've never seen him happier!

Just think! You could have went all day without saying that!
by Downstrike May 26, 2006
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A sarcastic version of, "that wasn't very nice", "you shouldn't have said that", "ewww, grody", or "TMI".

Variant: You could have gone all day without saying that.
Did you see all those girls clustering around your ex? I've never seen him happier!

Just think! You could have went all day without saying that!
by Downstrike May 19, 2006
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Pedafile

Yet another way to misspell pedophile for the purpose of childishly defining someone as a pedophile and slipping it past UrbanDictionary editors.
Generally, people who write pedafile really mean pedosexual.
by Downstrike May 26, 2006
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pedaphile

Yet another way to misspell pedophile for the purpose of childishly defining someone as a pedophile and slipping it past UrbanDictionary editors.
Generally, people who write pedaphile really mean pedosexual.
by Downstrike May 26, 2006
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Alt tag

N00b slang for the alt attribute of the HTML img tag. Usage indicates a probability that the person speaking doesn't know the difference between a tag and an attribute.
When people get persnickety with me, saying that my NiDEs don't have Alt tags, I get persnickety back at them, and tell them there's no such thing as an Alt tag, and that I'm not an SEO spammer, so I don't put alt attributes in NiDEs.
by Downstrike May 27, 2006
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smoke alarm

1. euphemism for a small busybody, frequently mounted on the ceiling, that tattles every time anyone cooks anything or takes a shower.

2. Good excuse to have a migraine.

3. Might even alert peeps to smoke too, if it didn't run its batteries down doing false alarms.

4. Never taken seriously due to false alarms. See also, cry wolf.
The landlord had to put in smoke alarms to satisfy fire code and insurance. The rents had to take the batteries out of the little ijits to preserve our sanity.

The whole complex burned down because a neighbor left the batteries in his smoke alarm, so when another neighbor's smoke alarm went off, he thought it was a false alarm.
by downstrike April 26, 2006
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