irishrepublicanarmy's definitions

freezing rain

Freezing rain occurs when the tempurature in the cloud and directly below the cloud are above freezing (32 degrees F), and the ground or surfaces that the rain hits are below 32 degrees. The result is big enough to shut the Washington DC metro area down for a few days.

We had freezing rain last night, so they cancelled school for a week.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 4, 2003

CB Radio

Citizen's Band radio service:

radio frequency range, worldwide service:
26.965 to 27.405 MHz

still used all across the USA by truckers for the avoidance of police officers cops and in the rest of the world by terrorists and FARC

Channel 9- international emergency channel

Channel 19-international calling/trucker channel

"Breaker Breaker one-niner, this is Wohn Jayne, we got smokey on your tail and a beaver in a flop top at your 1 o'clock"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 28, 2003

singles awareness day

Feb. 13th, the day before Valentine's Day. Because so many people don't have relationships (or do, and they hate Valentine's Day anyway), Feb 13th is the day where single people do nothing, there are no cards, no flowers or anything like that.

Happy singles awareness day!

by IrishRepublicanArmy February 14, 2004

sober irishman

A mythical creature that only exists in legends and is often seen by drunking irishman.

Used by irish parents to scare their kids.

see irish

If you keep acting that way, you are going to grow up and become sober!

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 26, 2003

REM

Rapid Eye Movement
a great rock band whos best records are probably "Out Of Time" "Document" and "Automatic For The People"

they sing about what rock 'n' roll was orginnally about, being against mainstream society, but some so-called rock music see punk-pop and MTV hs distorted what REM really is, listen to the lyrics on "Its The End Of The World As We Know It" and "Losing My Religion"

all in all a pretty good band, up there with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Led Zeppelin

"Man R.E.M. and rock alltogether rocks, MTV and rap sucks gay cock"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

DTMF

Dual Tone Multiple Frequency. Pressing a button on the keypad of a touch-tone phone generates a pair of tones of specified frequency and duration. The network or the equipment at the other end of the connection (such as a remote control for a phone answering machine, or a telephone interconnect system) detects and interprets these tones. In analog networks, audible tones generated by the network provide the call progress indications to the user. Different tones allow the human ear to interpret the progress of the call. On digital networks (such as PBX or ISDN), the network may send indication messages to the phone to indicate the status of the call, and the phone may generate most tones locally, driven by those messages.

(touch tone® dialing format)

by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY January 10, 2004

worst hour of the year

That hour of the year during which the median noise over any radio path is at a maximum.

Note: This hour is considered to coincide with the hour during which the greatest transmission loss occurs.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004