gooberliberation's definitions

Miata

A car preferred by middle aged women when they have their own mid-life crisis of sorts.

It handles pretty well too.

My mom got sick of the toyota and got a Miata because she wanted something cute and sporty.

by gooberliberation March 18, 2006

mook

A term coined by Douglas Rushkoff in an episode of PBS's "Frontline" entitled "The Merchants of Cool." Mooks are archetypal young males(teens-early 20s) who act like moronic boneheads. They are self centered simpletons who live a drunken frat-boy lifestyle(or are frat-boys). Examples can be found anytime someone watches "Jackass." Rushkoff claimed that the media glorifies this ideal and stifles natural self expression, however, some people might argue teenage boys have always acted like morons(its actually a long-standing stereotype). Nonetheless, standardized conformist dumbass-culture behind a veneer of exhuberance is a scary notion indeed.

Opposite of Mooks are Midriffs; oxymoronic innocent skanks who are modeled after Britney Spears.

Although everyone likes to blame Jackass, anyone on that show is a model Mook.

by gooberliberation December 28, 2005

echo bravo

Phonetic Alphabet for "EB." Can be applied to any EB acronym, but usually means Ebay

I scored some comic books off Echo Bravo

by gooberliberation January 30, 2006

ghost driver

see: Geister Fahrer. An individual who drives going the wrong direction on an autobahn, often with headlights turned off at night. Usually a drunk driver, but can also be a suicide attempt, thrill seeker, or horrendus driver error.

My travel agent gave me this cautionary lecture on ghost drivers in europe. Does that really happen?

by gooberliberation March 22, 2006

numbers

A rather brutal and secretive group of prison gangs in South Africa. Number gangs have numbers instead of names, and typically have millitary-style hierarchy, extensive tattoos, strict internal laws, and require violence against prison staff for initiation. The 28 Gang also has a system for distributing sex between new recruits and established members. Recently featured on a BBC documentary.

Numbers gangs include the 26s, 27s, 28s, etc...

by gooberliberation March 13, 2006

Daihatsu

A Japanese car company that covers the "really cheap" bottom end of the market. Their cars are usually quirky and whimsical, especially their concepts. Pretty much unknown in US.

The only company to ever produce a Hello Kitty car.

Honest to god, Daihatsu has so far put out hello kitty editions of their Mira and Move. Seriously.

by gooberliberation March 18, 2006

bose

A fancy schmancy audio company. Their headphones are pretty sweet and the sound cancelling tech is top nontch. But, for some reason, they seem to market primarily to the elderly. As a result, their products such as their Wave-Audio(radios with tubes-n-shit in them) tend to have heavily simplified controls, bland styling and automatic equalizer settings that only sound good with classical music. Despite having some good ideas Bose also is technologically conservative; with products not being MP3-capable years after everyone else is. Lasers used in CD players are also weak and cannot read through scratches that others could. Overpriced? Probably.

Those Bose wave music systems sound like shit when trying to play anything that uses "unnatural instruments" like synthesizers and electric guitars. That rules out like 75% of popular music. Wave radios sound good, but they don't sound 500 dollar-good. Mabye like 80 dollar good.

by gooberliberation January 1, 2006