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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.
Anyone who calls a pyramid scheme MLM helps the scammers trick their victims.
by Downstrike April 8, 2006
Get the MLM mug.A virally propagated scam, formerly sent entirely through snail mail, but now more frequently sent through email. It operates basically as a pyramid scheme in which the recipient is urged to send a small sum of money to each person on a short list of names and addresses, with the promise that they will receive a lot of money when they rotate their name into the list, and the oldest name off of it, and mail the letter to everyone they know.
Some chain letters try to scam people even further, by instructing them rotate their name into the oldest position, so that the very next recipient will rotate them off of it, so that only the first names and addresses on the list will get any money.
by Downstrike April 8, 2006
Get the chain letter mug.An SEO spammer's black hat attempt to undermine a competing web site's search engine page rank. The term derives from the name of the most commonly used search engine and the idea that bowling a split leaves a huge gap between the pins, through which the next bowled ball could easily pass without upsetting any pins, suggesting that one has found a huge gap in Google's defenses.
The currently most poopular Google bowling technique is to SEO spam links to the competing web site so that Google will penalize it.
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
Get the Google bowling mug.1. A black hat SEO spam technique in which the spammer plagiarizes content from other web sites to put content that's popular with search engines on his own site, often for the purpose of selling advertising back to the ijit search engines. Also used as a Google bowling technique to get competing web sites labeled as SEO spam.
2. Fighting.
3. Beating up someone.
4. Living in poverty.
2. Fighting.
3. Beating up someone.
4. Living in poverty.
1. Google eventually wises up to each new SEO spamming technique, so scraping will eventually get you banned.
2. Evrabody be Kung Fu Scraping! (Sung just as badly as it's worded.)
3. When I get done scraping him, his mama will have to finish scraping him off the floor.
4. They were just scraping by.
2. Evrabody be Kung Fu Scraping! (Sung just as badly as it's worded.)
3. When I get done scraping him, his mama will have to finish scraping him off the floor.
4. They were just scraping by.
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
Get the scraping mug.1. n., Peeps who rigorously eschew all forms of mental stimulation, on the feeble premise that either God or evolution will teach us all that we need to know. They may vocally oppose education, and believe that writing is something that only writers do. They sometimes brag about having no sense of size, quantity, or direction.
The militantly ignorant rarely read books or even magazines or newspapers, admit that they don't enjoy the fine arts, have a poor sense of history, can't find Nevada or Pakistan on a globe, and avoid watching the news on TV. They don't own library cards or use technology, except as a joke or novelty, believing digital productivity and entertainment to be waning fads, and are easily recognized by holding materials upside down while reading, unless they contain pretty pictures. What informational channels they do expose themselves to through TV or movies are usually either drivel or very low-grade.
They are greatly relieved to be unaware of the existence of resources such as NPR or the Internet. They can't read, spell, or even speak very well, don't recognize or use many words, frequently substitute similarly sounding words for what they really mean, take violent offense at innocent comments, and otherwise misconstrue most statements containing words longer than three syllables.
Unfortunately, such people rarely study or try to improve themselves or their work, (if they actually do any), and can only poorly define their misconceptions, much less defend them. Should they attempt to describe a problem, they will most likely describe it as a thingy that acted funny. This may have seemed cute when they were small, but if such seemingly cute ignorance is excessively rewarded when people are small, they learn to adopt ignorance as a strategy for obtaining affection, and eventually their brains atrophy from disuse and they can't learn more mature strategies.
(Source: jehovah.to/glos/=M.html #militantly_ignorant)
2. adj., Stupid on purpose.
The militantly ignorant rarely read books or even magazines or newspapers, admit that they don't enjoy the fine arts, have a poor sense of history, can't find Nevada or Pakistan on a globe, and avoid watching the news on TV. They don't own library cards or use technology, except as a joke or novelty, believing digital productivity and entertainment to be waning fads, and are easily recognized by holding materials upside down while reading, unless they contain pretty pictures. What informational channels they do expose themselves to through TV or movies are usually either drivel or very low-grade.
They are greatly relieved to be unaware of the existence of resources such as NPR or the Internet. They can't read, spell, or even speak very well, don't recognize or use many words, frequently substitute similarly sounding words for what they really mean, take violent offense at innocent comments, and otherwise misconstrue most statements containing words longer than three syllables.
Unfortunately, such people rarely study or try to improve themselves or their work, (if they actually do any), and can only poorly define their misconceptions, much less defend them. Should they attempt to describe a problem, they will most likely describe it as a thingy that acted funny. This may have seemed cute when they were small, but if such seemingly cute ignorance is excessively rewarded when people are small, they learn to adopt ignorance as a strategy for obtaining affection, and eventually their brains atrophy from disuse and they can't learn more mature strategies.
(Source: jehovah.to/glos/=M.html #militantly_ignorant)
2. adj., Stupid on purpose.
In order to be understood by the militantly ignorant, it's best to limit your sentences to two or three words.
Quotations from the militantly ignorant:
``Persons go to college so they can evolve into apes.''
``I don't know much about ____ but I know what I like!''
``Lemme see, did Moses live before or after Jesus?''
``But the news is on at the same time as Beavis and Butthead!''
``Ha ha ha---math was always my worst subject in school!''
``No way! The minute you leave California you're in Utah.''
``Since that commercial came out, everbuddy knows the capitol of Arkansas is Phoenix, not Puhonix! Arkansas, Arizona, same smell! Flagstaff?!? Ha ha ha ha!''
Quotations from the militantly ignorant:
``Persons go to college so they can evolve into apes.''
``I don't know much about ____ but I know what I like!''
``Lemme see, did Moses live before or after Jesus?''
``But the news is on at the same time as Beavis and Butthead!''
``Ha ha ha---math was always my worst subject in school!''
``No way! The minute you leave California you're in Utah.''
``Since that commercial came out, everbuddy knows the capitol of Arkansas is Phoenix, not Puhonix! Arkansas, Arizona, same smell! Flagstaff?!? Ha ha ha ha!''
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
Get the militantly ignorant mug.A band or singer that everyone forgets about after their hit song runs its natural course into obscurity, because they can never get back onto the charts again. Most one-hit-wonders are that way because either they can't write their own songs, or their own songs are crap.
Crossover songs and artists are sometimes mistaken for One-Hit-Wonders, because listeners outside their genre don't know who they are. Anyone unfortunate enough to make this mistake is likely to be taken to task by numerous members of the artist's following, because it takes quite a good artist to pull off a crossover hit.
Crossover songs and artists are sometimes mistaken for One-Hit-Wonders, because listeners outside their genre don't know who they are. Anyone unfortunate enough to make this mistake is likely to be taken to task by numerous members of the artist's following, because it takes quite a good artist to pull off a crossover hit.
Your own songs just aren't going to cut it. Go find a hit song that no one else has covered in at least 20 years, so the teen audience will think it's new, and maybe you can be a One-hit-wonder.
Some One-Hit-Wonders:
Dean Friedman
Right Said Fred
Gary Numan
Soft Cell
Sammy Johns
The Reflections
The Electric Prunes
The Elegants
Bobby Dray
Some One-Hit-Wonders:
Dean Friedman
Right Said Fred
Gary Numan
Soft Cell
Sammy Johns
The Reflections
The Electric Prunes
The Elegants
Bobby Dray
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
Get the One-Hit-Wonder mug.George Lucas' high school alma matre, the home of the Downey Ducks. He renamed Downey High School, Dewey High School in American Graffiti to avoid lawsuits.
Downey students like to think they're Downey Knights, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it as Downey Ducks, and students at all the other schools around them don't let them forget it!
by Downstrike December 28, 2005
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