blastfemy

Like blasphemy, except the offence is against a rock star/band who have reached god-like stature.
You mean you don't like Mick Jagger, as in the Rolling Stones? You're so 1950s. They are a blast and you... you...musicneanderthal, you just committed a blastfemy and may your iPod be invaded by Neil Diamond songs.
by vivauganda January 21, 2011
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conduces

verb: from conducive.

1. Encouragative of something positive.
2. Pushes towards something - normallyb positive.
M on Facebook today: Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.
Me: Not necessarily happy but at least wise and introspective, and to me self-questioning conduces (sic) progress.
by vivauganda January 23, 2011
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psycoinfancy

Unwarranted infantile adulation of a human.
Never saw such psycoinfancy in my life as at this years Oscars.
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periodic full attention

It's effectively more or less synonymous with Constant Partial Atention.
So much to do, man, all you can do these days is give CPA to all of them. That way at least everyone gets periodic full attention (PFA).
by vivauganda April 22, 2011
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collateral benefit

Deriving intended or unintended advantage from a main-event happening.
He wrote a letter to the editor about the Vancouver June 2011 riots in which he mentioned how things were so different in 1972 when Canada beat USSR in the Summit Series and Asian-origin refugees from Uganda's Idi Amin got admitted to Canada as a collateral benefit of the euphoria. In doing this he subtly mentioned that the item had been covered in his forthcoming book on Uganda Asians, thus deriving collateral benefit for his publication.
by vivauganda June 22, 2011
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cronycler

A chronicler of events who tries to curry favour with all the subjects (people) he writes about.
1. How can you take his history books seriously? He's no chronicler - just a cronycler of the high-ups, he'll crony up to any such.

2. So you didn't like what I wrote about him, eh? Well, you'll just have to lump it, won't you, I'm not the chronicler you were looking for.
by vivauganda November 22, 2011
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glass purdah

It's a continuation on the glass ceiling/glass closet idea. In eastern westernised societies men and women do come to a party together but segregate themselves in different corners upon arrival. You can see eachother but you can't cross over to meet: The glass purdah rules.
She: Bye now for a while, I've to go to my own side.
He: Look but don't cross, the glass purdah rules!
She: Looking is better than touching and thank god they don't put down a black purdah any more.
by vivauganda December 11, 2011
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