WW55

Driving at 55 mph in a car old enough to have wind wings on the front windows, as an alternative to air conditioning.

After work, let's go cruise on Circle Boulevard, WW55.

by johnmburt1960 August 07, 2006

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

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