Definitions by shootandrun

updowngrade

The decline in quality or loss of useful functions when a piece of software is upgraded.

This new Mac operating system really sucks. The calculator app doesn't work, the audio files won't play... this is a total updowngrade.

updowngrade by shootandrun March 12, 2016

oscaritis 

When a film director directs a film with the intention of winning an Oscar rather than making a good film.

I saw Wolf of Wall Street last weekend, and Martin Scorsese has a case of Oscaritis. The performances are painfully Oscary, and the flashy, unoriginal technique (a rip off of Scorsese's Good Fellas) was like being hit over the head with an Oscar. Definite case of advanced Oscaritis.

oscaritis by shootandrun January 22, 2014

marriage dropping 

kid

This woman squeezed past us in the supermarket, three marriage droppings trailing along behind her.

marriage dropping by shootandrun November 4, 2013

embryocracy

A society that caters exclusively to the unborn. In an embryocracy, fetuses and embryos get all the privileges and rights, while the rest of us (the born) become second class citizens.

Laws are being passed to give personhood to fetuses. But children living in poverty can't get proper health care or education. Our nation is becoming an embryocracy.

embryocracy by shootandrun January 15, 2012

coal mole

fake anti-nuclear protester, who is actually a mole working for the coal industry.

Germany is now getting rid of its nuclear power plants. Throngs of young rebellious looking youth had crowded the streets, protesting in the name of "a clean earth". Who stands to fill the vacuum? Coal. Those protesters were definitely coal moles.

coal mole by shootandrun October 30, 2011

baby backdraft 

During a tantrum: the dreadful pause that follows a baby's initial scream, as it sucks back more air, to release, an even louder, longer, more ear piercing shriek.

I was just settling into my seat on the plane, when a disgruntled baby nearby let loose with a blood curdling wail. Then came the baby backdraft. It took in a huge gulp of air. I sat helplessly in that half second of calm, waiting for the deafening howl to fill the cabin.

baby backdraft by shootandrun October 17, 2010

urinography 

The craft of writing or drawing with your pee.

Jenkins was talented in the art of urinography. Last week, after the big snowstorm, he unzipped , dropped his trousers, and wrote a love poem to his girlfriend in a snowbank.

urinography by shootandrun October 29, 2009