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Stock Footage 

A telephone conversation skill that involves giving the impression of listening to one's interlocutor's monologue while actually focusing on a separate unrelated task that demands all of one's conscious attention. This technique allow one to focus on one of the myriad tasks that demand our time in this Information Age such as checking email, reading product labels, console video games, television subplot hermeneutics, etc.

The effective Stock Footage skill set includes (at least):
1. Subliminally registering important words,
2. Following the tone and cadence of your partner's voice while ignoring its content,
3. Judiciously interjecting soothing phrases when appropriate,
4. And, (the most expert skill) responding to the dreaded "Are you even listening to me?" or somesuch query by reconstructing from one's subconscious mind enough of the meaning of the fellow communicant's narrative to prevent a highly undesirable incidence of Color Bars.
In the following example, Speaker B is engaging in Stock Footage:

Speaker A: "...and so she says to me 'no way' and i go 'you've GOT to be kidding me' and he goes 'no you DIDN'T' and then they both started in again with the, you know, and I was like so... "

Speaker B: "So.. what?"

Speaker A: "Embarrassed, you know? Are you even listening to me?"

Speaker B; "Yes, of course, they were at it again with the same old same old can you believe it?'

Speaker A; "I know! And then she was like..."
Stock Footage by Sergeant Hoze July 30, 2008

Stock footage 

Stock footage, also termed archive footage, library pictures and file footage is film or video footage either in the public domain or available for a set fee that can thus be put into any other film. Stock footage is of great use to filmmakers as it is generally far cheaper than actually filming a needed scene. Documentaries, as well as student films are noted for using large amounts of stock footage.

Stock footage can also be used to integrate news footage or notable figures into a film. For instance, the Academy Award-winning film Forrest Gump used stock footage extensively, to portray the lead character meeting historic figures such as John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and John Lennon.

One of the largest producers of public domain stock footage is the United States government. All videos produced by the United States military, NASA, and other agencies are available for use as stock footage. There are a number of companies that own the copyrights to large libraries of stock footage and charge film makers a fee for using it, but they rarely demand royalties. Stock footage comes from a myriad of sources, including governments, other movies, and often news outlets.

Television and movies series also often use stock footage taken from previous installments. For instance, all the Star Trek series kept a collection of shots of starships that would appear on a regular basis, being used most of the time a ship was seen.

News programs use film footage from their archives often when more recent images are not available.
Stock Footage
My credits: wikipedia
Stock footage by P. redeckis June 11, 2006

Indiana stank foot 

When a guy is getting head and wraps his leg behind the girl and inserts his big toe in the asshole.
dude last night i was with my girlfriend and used the indiana stank foot
Indiana stank foot by wierd sex January 16, 2016

Stank Foot 

Any maloder resulting from persistent same-sock wearing among other things.

Stepping in mayonnaise.
Ronald (to his girlfriend): Damn bitch, you got that stank foot.

Ronald's girlfriend: Yeah, I've been wearing these socks for weeks. Also, I stepped in mayonnaise.
Stank Foot by somthinwicked December 23, 2011

Lenny Kravitz Stock Footage 

1. Something that doesn't make any sense and cannot be fully explained.
2. Totally irrelevant.
3. Typical bullshit.
---shortened to "kravitz", used in a negative way.
"What the hell is that kravitz calling me for? We broke up five years ago."


A. Why'd you sleep with my girlfriend?

B. The football game was on and I was drunk...

A. Lenny Kravitz Stock Footage, dude.

B. You're right, bro. I just wanted a piece of ass. I'm sorry.

Stank Foot 

A loving term for ratchet marijuana.
Man you smoking on some of that stank foot.
Stank Foot by Cerrone Walker August 26, 2014
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She brought home alot of stuff and took it to the bathroom. She must be taking a witch bath.
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That chick doesn't write often but when she does, its for Kinktober.
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person2: ya he was a proper lad
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