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Making the system work for you. This may include taking home office supplies, sending out mail for free, or running your own business from work. Also known as bumpin da grind.
With his low salary and absolutely no benefits, Will realized he was never going to make it in his current job unless he began looking after his own needs and stated bumping the grind .
by maximo hudson February 5, 2009
Get the bumping the grind mug. A state of mental dating distraction. It occurs when an individual on the make is presented with too many equally attractive choices at the same time. Similar to the sensory overload experienced by a lioness crossing open ground to advance on a heard of zebras. The end result is often missed opportunity and frustration.
The zebra effect hit Chico hard as he stared at the table of beautiful woman, unable to decide which one to pursue.
by maximo hudson February 4, 2009
Get the zebra effect mug. In the future, owing to texting, tweeting and websites such as the Urban Dictionary, everyone and his brother will begin to coin phrases (such as "preemptive karma") and the person of the moment who finds himself atop Fortuna's Wheel of Elocution will be, for an instant, the cat's meow. Fifteen Minutes of Jive refers to such a scribbler's brief moment in the spotlight. As it has always done, language will then move on and the word of the moment will be replaced by yet another - only at a noticeably accelerated pace. This will of course lead to Jive Lag and Jivemire as well as Jivemires and a situation in which what was hip at, say, 9:15, will now be considered boorish by 9:35.
In the twenty-first century, the world did not seek out the cleverness of Oscar Wilde in the embodiment of a single individual, but instead sought to steep itself in a continuous omnipresent wit in which billions of individuals could, if only briefly, communally participate in being the life of the party and experience their clever moment in the sun: their fifteen minutes of jive .
by maximo hudson May 12, 2009
Get the Fifteen Minutes of Jivemug. A lighthearted way of asking someone if an ongoing problem has yet been addressed. From a question asked President Barack Obama by his daughter, Malia, in regard to the disastrous 2010 British Petroleum / Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" the farmer's wife asked her husband after he came back from trying yet again to get the neighbor's horses out of the cornfield.
by maximo hudson May 27, 2010
Get the Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?mug. Shock and Love is that progressive political policy which seeks to use instances of crisis to further the betterment of mankind. It differs from the conservative policy of Shock and Awe which seeks to use the same instances to further empower the already powerful and to curtail the self evident liberties of the masses.
With the lives of three hundred million Americans at stake, the Obama administration, in a classic example of Shock and Love, was able to use the panic created by the flu pandemic to force Senate Republicans to do the right thing and confirm Kathleen Sibelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
by maximo hudson May 1, 2009
Get the Shock and Lovemug. Pertaining to the period of time before the catastrophic eruption of Thea, about 1600-1500 BCE, the resultant tsunamis of which are believed to have caused the downfall of the Minoan civilization. This event is thought by many to be the basis of Plato's story of Atlantis. The word literally means "before the flood." From the Latin ante (before) + diluvium (flood).
by maximo hudson December 8, 2010
Get the antediluvianmug. A couple of beers. Specifically those used to mellow oneself out after a tough day on the job. After Steven Slater the stressed-out airline attendant who grabbed a couple of beers as he deployed the emergency slide and walked away from his work area, a commercial JetBlue airplane that had landed but not yet reached the terminal.
After a horrible day on the job I stopped off on my way home for a shot of Jack and chased it down with a Slater Slide.
by maximo hudson August 12, 2010
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