holloway's definitions

Coasting

When on 'The Pill' a girl gets a pill sheet marked with days of the month. For most of the month the pills they take have an effect, but for a few days every month there's apparently no need for them to take any additional pills. To keep it simple however the pill sheets contain pregancy-friendly sugar pills to keep the girls in the habit of taking a pill every morning. When a girl is taking these sugar pills, she is coasting on the previous weeks dosage.

"I haven't been taking my pill for the last few days"
"WHAT?!"
"I don't need to, it's the sugar pill, I got back so the others next week"
"So you've been coasting?"

by holloway January 2, 2004

!eureka

irc talk for when the problems overwhelm you and you can't think of a solution

I haven't made any dinner for my in-laws and they're arriving in 5 minutes. I have a can of beans and some washing powder.
!Eureka!

by holloway June 30, 2007

grass roots

Genuine public opinion for an issue, in particular communities and individuals rather than political organisations or companies.

The antonym of grass roots is astroturfing.

Nuclear disarmourment has grass roots support.

by holloway August 17, 2004

Marble Orchard

An early 19th century term for a graveyard.

We done crashed in this here marble orchard.

by holloway April 21, 2006

Flatten and Reinstall

To format and then install a computers Operating System, typically due to being hacked.

From a technical perspective this involves formatting at least one partition.

The "Flatten" comes from a hurricane analogy; flattening the landscape and having to rebuild from nothing.

You've been hacked and they got root? Flatten and Reinstall.

You listened to a Sony CD? Flatten and Reinstall.

by holloway June 30, 2006