johnmburt1960's definitions

whale dynamite

Trying something which has failed spectacularly in the past, the way that Oregon authorities tried to remove a rotting whale carcass from a beach with dynamite, apparently thinking it would vanish in a fireball rather than being spread over a wide area in the form of chunks of rancid whale blubber -- and then thirty years later tried to do the same thing.

Cutting rich people's taxes in order to stimulate the economy is nothing but whale dynamite.

by johnmburt1960 July 19, 2017

moonbat

"Bat", of course, refers to members of the order chiroptera (with some contending that the "megachiroptera" of South America should be classified as primates), strange and wonderful animals which are beneficial to humanity. Intelligent, well-educated liberals recognize bats as an asset, and seek to encourage them through environmental protection, including the building of bathouses on the outsides of their homes. The ignorant and superstitious hate and fear bats, and can think of no worse insult than to compare people they also hate and fear (out of ignorance) to bats.

"Moon" refers to Earth's primary natural sattelite, which humans visited for a brief period thanks to a massive liberal spending program. The scientific and technological benefits of the Apollo Project were immense, and would have been far greater if the program had not been killed by a right-wing administration that wanted to spend that money on a futile foreign war. Thus, the Moon is, like bats, symbolic of liberalism and all the benefits it brings to a culture, and naturally will be an object of hatred and fear to the Right.

Combine the two and you get "Moonbat"; environmental good sense, scientific curiosity, prosperity for all and the triumph of knowledge over traditional superstition. In short, all the things that enemies of civilization like Osama bin Laden and Pat Robertson hate most.

I support as continued ban on DDT because I am a moonbat.

by johnmburt1960 April 17, 2005

Burthening

Deriving sexual excitement form the idea of a woman being impregnated and abandoned, especially if she is impregnated through a malicious action such as rape or sabotaging her birth control.
Etymology: The repurposing of an archaic form of the word "burdening".

"Alice and I did a roleplay where I told her I'd poked pinholes in the rubber before I put it on, because I wanted to burthen her before I skipped out on her."
"Burthen her? Like, knock her up?"
"Yeah, turns out we both have a major burthening kink."

by johnmburt1960 April 21, 2023

October 4

A good day to be born, since the "4th of October" is also known as "Ten-Four", which means "Everything's Fine", so if you're born on "October 4th", you're sure to be good news for the world.

They're the coolest quartet from Archangelsk, the "October 4", they formed on "October 4", 2014.

by johnmburt1960 August 16, 2020

fruad

Fruad (froo-AHD), n.: A person of the highest moral caliber, esp. one who is cheated out of a job which goes to someone grossly inferior

"Hillary Clinton was a fruad!!!"

by johnmburt1960 December 14, 2016

Humansplain

To explain to someone who has engaged in mansplaining, whitesplaining, richsplaining, &c., the error they have fallen into due to their privileged position.

He said he had trouble finding comfortable shoes for the office, too, and I humansplained to him that there is no shoe made for men which was anything like as uncomfortable as the two-inch heel minimum required by the company dress code.

by johnmburt1960 August 2, 2017

Twonky

A new technology which is highly disruptive to established ways of doing things. Named after a device from the future in Henry Kuttner's 1942 short story "The Twonky", which upsets the life of a man who comes into possession of it.

This 3D printer isn't just a toy, it makes things I can really use around the house. That's a real twonky as far as shopping goes.

by johnmburt1960 May 14, 2018