mandingoe's definitions
something considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality. According to Susan Sontag, "The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques." (Notes on Camp)
Campy movies: Attack of the 50-foot Woman, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Tingler, Barbarella
Other examples: Baltimore, The National Enquirer, fake fur, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Tiki, and polyester plaids
"I love disco precisely why everyone else seems to dislike it: disco is just so darn campy."
Other examples: Baltimore, The National Enquirer, fake fur, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Tiki, and polyester plaids
"I love disco precisely why everyone else seems to dislike it: disco is just so darn campy."
by mandingoe June 6, 2004
Get the campmug. 1. To deliberately produce something so bad it's good. Creating something genuinely campy would be the perfect shatnerization. While not quite as unachievable as exceeding the speed of light, perfect shatnerization is as difficult as bowling a perfect game.
(Note: This does not infer that Shatner's early musical works are deliberately campy. They do, however, set a standard.)
2. To parody yourself (a la William Shatner's commercials for Priceline).
(Note: This does not infer that Shatner's early musical works are deliberately campy. They do, however, set a standard.)
2. To parody yourself (a la William Shatner's commercials for Priceline).
The "How Berkley Can You Be" parade is a day for Berkleyites to shatnerize themselves.
Newsweek: Doesn't it bother you that your version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" is a camp classic?
William Shatner: ...yes, in the beginning it bothered methat people singled it out and poked fun at it. They didn't know what I was doing. The album, "The Transformed Man" is much more extensive than that song. But since people only heard that song, I went along with the joke.
Newsweek: Uhh...OK Bill.
Newsweek: Doesn't it bother you that your version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" is a camp classic?
William Shatner: ...yes, in the beginning it bothered methat people singled it out and poked fun at it. They didn't know what I was doing. The album, "The Transformed Man" is much more extensive than that song. But since people only heard that song, I went along with the joke.
Newsweek: Uhh...OK Bill.
by Mandingoe September 26, 2004
Get the shatnerizemug. {adj}
Extremely successful.
Typically used to describe a movie, play, or other performance.
{noun}
1. A huge success; a smash hit
2. Star of the eponymous Mister Boffo cartoon strip
Origin: Probably a blend of box office. Or a varient of bóóffoo or boffola (I kid you not)
Extremely successful.
Typically used to describe a movie, play, or other performance.
{noun}
1. A huge success; a smash hit
2. Star of the eponymous Mister Boffo cartoon strip
Origin: Probably a blend of box office. Or a varient of bóóffoo or boffola (I kid you not)
by Mandingoe September 29, 2004
Get the boffomug. Thickening of the skin of the palm that results in loss of ability to hold hand straight. This condition occurs only in people with diabetes
by mandingoe May 18, 2004
Get the stiff hand syndromemug. by Mandingoe May 23, 2004
Get the cobainmug. 1 macho posturing; a fat man's pissing contest
2 the opening manuvures in sumo wrestling
3 the opening manuvures in a dispute between an umpire and a baseball manager before he gets ejected
2 the opening manuvures in sumo wrestling
3 the opening manuvures in a dispute between an umpire and a baseball manager before he gets ejected
by mandingoe June 8, 2004
Get the belly bumpmug. Rummy-speak, circa late 2003, for the isolated Sadam loyalists who oppose U.S. occupation and take RPG target practice on our boys. Apparently a large club.
Rumsfeld dubbed the insurgents who are making life so difficult for coalition forces, Iraqi authorities and anyone caught in the cross fire "dead-enders," losers from Saddam Hussein's regime with nothing left to do but go down fighting. Time Magazine 11/16/2003
by mandingoe June 8, 2004
Get the dead-endersmug.