the birds and trees's definitions

Islamophobia

Irrational fear or hatred of Muslims. Usually found immediately after any terrorist event, resulting in persecution and intimidation of law-abiding Muslim Americans, or anyone who could be mistaken for a Muslim or Arab. Contrary to ultra-right-wing rhetoric, Islamophobia is not disagreeing with the religion of Islam or Sharia law. Islamophobia is fear of Muslims.

Examples of Islamophobia:

1. Reporting your Muslim neighbor to the Department of Homeland Security because you thought the lawnmower he was repairing in his garage was a bomb.
2. Shooting a Sikh store clerk because he was wearing a turban, and you thought that only Muslims wear turbans.
3. Attacking a Muslim woman on the street because you thought she was a terrorist.
4. Detaining law-abiding Muslims and sending them to Guantanamo for extremely shady reasons.

by the birds and trees May 14, 2007

catch a case

To physically assault someone. To attack physically, barehanded or with a dangerous weapon.

Ron gripped the handle of his cane sword, saying "both of y'all better leave this place," as he slowly unsheathed the blade "or I just may have to catch a case!"

by the birds and trees June 21, 2007

Elvis didn't do no drugs

An expression used to call someone on an obvious lie, prevarication or falsehood. A way of calling bullshit. Since it is now known Elvis did mountains of drugs, stating that he had always been clean would be obvious bullshit. Origin: Penn and Teller's show Bullshit, where the phrase is used to call bullshit on the various claims of creationists.

Mike: "Elton John invented rap music."
Bob: "Um, right, Elvis didn't do no drugs!"

by the birds and trees May 18, 2008

Getto mart

A term used in Western Mass. for Getty Mart, a chain of mini-mart/gas stations owned by the Getty oil corporation. Possibly due to the prevalence of Getty marts in poorer neighborhoods, or possibly because of the shitty service and generally tacky nature of most Getty Mart franchises.

I bought a pack of beef jerky and a tonic water at the Getto Mart.

by the birds and trees October 1, 2006

having a normal one

Having a public meltdown on the internet, usually on Twitter.

Jonathan K. Businessman, having a normal one, released a string of dozens of tweets today repeatedly denying that he was was a furry, was involved in securities fraud, or was in any addicted to tentacle porn. The tweets, phrased in Elizabethan English, compared the S.E.C. to the Horned King, a character from the Disney movie "The Black Cauldron."

by the birds and trees December 22, 2018

Marvin Gaye weed

Weed that's so strong that, after one hit, you're like "what's goin' on?"

Damn, this shit is some Marvin Gaye weed. Have you ever seen a snow-covered mountain during the sunset on a crystal-clear winter's day, all golden and fiery in the last dying rays of the sun, and noticed how even the shadows glowed with all of the purple and indigo notes of the evening sky?

by the birds and trees January 14, 2009

saxons

A Germanic tribe from the regions of Saxony, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstiein, North-Rhine Westphalia and part of the Netherlands. Conquered Brittain at the end of Roman rule. The Saxons in Brittain became known as Anglo-Saxons, and ruled for several centuries before being conquered by the Normans. The words "saxon" and "Anglo-Saxon" are used today as buzzwords by hate groups who consider themselves to be of pure, Anglo-Saxon blood, and therefore superior to all other races, whom they term "mud races" or "mud people." Regardless of the fact that the original Saxons seemed to have no qualms about marrying into the indigenous population, as well as the successive waves of conquerors, and indeed seemed to have no idea of race.

The Legend of King Arthur was about the struggle of the old, Celtic Brittain against the Saxons.

by the birds and trees September 17, 2006