fantasy

In literature and entertainment, a genre of fiction in which entirely different laws of physics and/or psychics operate, allowing people, creatures, and their surroundings to exhibit behavior not possible in reality.

Fantasy literature by J.R.R. Tolkien is quite popular right now.

by Downstrike May 22, 2004

Elián González

A little, five-year-old Cuban boy who made headlines in 1999 by surviving the trip to Florida from Cuba in an inner tube. His mother died to get him to Florida, but she made the mistake of naming him a name that sounded far too much like the word, alien in English, and having him fathered by a man who would have nothing to do with Elián until being Elián's father was suddenly very patriotic.

If Elián González wasn't named a name that sounds like alien in English, maybe the feds wouldn't have been so obsessed with sending him home, or scared him into going back to Cuba by shoving an assault rifle in his face.

by Downstrike August 14, 2006

pedofile

What people who can't spell will write in place of pedophile.

Chance are, they really mean pedosexual.

by Downstrike September 13, 2004

b2c

Business to Consumer. See also, b2b and c2c.

b2c means marketing one's business to end consumers rather than to other businesses

by Downstrike June 07, 2004

philosophies

Pl. of philosophy.

There are as many philosophies as there are people.

by Downstrike May 24, 2004

NiDE

1. Acronym for Non-informative Design Element. Pronounced, NI-dee. Used by some webmasters as a place-keeper Alt attribute to satisfy persnickety, Accessibility-obsessed busybodies who think that every blasted image tag has to have an Alt attribute.

2. nide, (rhymes with hide): A nest or brood of pheasants.

1. A single-pixel, transparent GIF, used as a spacer, wasn't meant to convey information, but the Accessibility purists insist that it must have an Alt attribute, so we type, NiDE, as the attribute.

2. Are you a hunter or not? Go ahead and blast that nide!

by Downstrike September 03, 2005

customs

1. Habitual practices, including religious rituals.

2. Where smugglers get arrested.

I could get arrested in customs for smuggling books about religious customs into a country where atheism is the state religion.

by Downstrike May 24, 2004