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institute of notre dame 

IND is an all girls catholic highschool attended by your grandmother, mother, aunts, cousins, and sisters. No, it's not surrounded by rolling hills and beautiful trees, but within the first week of receiving your license, you've learned to parallel park in spaces just inches larger than your car. You regularly drive to the Inner Harbor for lunch and proudly wear your uniform in public.

You know that Hildie will give you a free lunch, cut you a break in detention, and give you change if you need it. You appreciate the fact that your lunch table is probably more diverse than the entire student body at other schools. You get less sleep during Spirit Week than you do during exam week and understand that no true INDian will ever wear red unless it's her class color.

Freshmen enter wearing high socks, long skirts, nametags, and tucked-in shirts; they never go down the "up only" stairs. By Senior year, your skirt has become 8 inches shorter, your name-tag has been "on order" (for the past three years), you've slept in your uniform more than once, and you're lucky to even find socks in the morning. You've also never heard of wearing make-up, shaving your legs, or brushing your hair during the week. By the time you graduate, you have fallen down the slate stairs at least once and when others fall, it's more acceptable to point and laugh than offer help.

With 100 days left, you hang your winter skirt from the slate stairs. Despite four years of complaining, you cry when you hear the final blessing on your last day; you vow to visit as an alum at the first chance you get. When you process from the Cathedral on graduation wearing matching long white gowns carrying a dozen red roses, you know you are not only leaving your class, but your family. You love your school and others will never understand.
Institute of Notre Dame:
IND is not NDP; we're in the city and proud.

dampener 

Any experience that feels like having a bucket of cold water thrown over your head. Something that produces a corresponding comedown in mood in the person experiencing it.
"Jeez, when I found out the price of the drinks, it put a right old dampener on the proceedings."
dampener by Pherbs January 1, 2009

dame tu cosita 

A music video with a green alien saying "Dame tu Cosita", which translates to "Give me your little thing", which sounds very sexual. Speaking of sexual, it has some sex moans in the background, so it probably is a sexual song.

It also has a cringeworthy fanbase.

It may sound catchy at first, until you figure out what it means.
Dame tu Cosita! Ah! Ah! Dame tu Cosita! Ah! Ayy!
A student at the University College of Design, Architecture, Art, & Planning. Most likely you will see them dressing weird, falling asleep while walking, or you maybe not see them for days on end.
Dan: Gosh, Banderger is such a daaper.
D-Money: Hell no he ain't bitch, he got sleep last night. I'm a daaper; I've been up for 2 days straigh.
daaper by SparkyTTMD July 22, 2006

Dame Da Ne Moment 

the song "Baka mitai" which translates to "so foolish" is a song from Yakuza 0 and has the lyric "Dame Da Ne" which is where the term comes from. a Dame Da Ne Moment is when you do something foolish (given the song title's meaning) or something bad happens to someone you believed in
dan: i heard one of our boys started dating the school thot
will: dang thats a Dame Da Ne Moment

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 

One of the best Disney movies to ever be made. The movie was scorned by parents for its dark themes and edgy material- The main villain, sings a song about lust, and the movie deals with issues like racism and religious hypocrisy. Many fans of the original novel also criticized the movie for changing the plot to make it more kid friendly. Regardless, the movie has great music, animation, and character development, and should not be missed.
Hellfire is just one example of a great song from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).