Doody Factory

The sanitary reclamation center where all your flushes migrate.

"Roll up your windows. We're about to drive past the doody factory."

by creedmoor October 11, 2004

factoid

a not-entirely-true or documentable "fact" that can be used alone or used to embellish a story;

see Anneism

During the Anneism spouted by Gertrude, the factoids were flying fast and furious.

by Shmouse May 20, 2005

fudge factors

1. Science - Variables that have no basis in the (heuristic model of the) model, used to fit the model's behaviour to whatever it is supposed to model.

Example: If you want to model the fall time of a stone in the atmosphere, you start with the law of gravity and find it does not give the right fall time, so you first add air friction as a variable.

So far so good, but as you will soon find out that for a particular stone, the friction factor does not only depend on dimensions of the stone. It may also depend on surface roughness, air pressure at the time, water content in the air, iron content of the stone etc.

Despairing to model all these, you add an unexplained variable that you can use to adjust the outcome of the modelling to (aka "calibrating" or "fine-tuning" the model) the observed behaviour.

2. Business - The same as the above, but then applied to economic models and scorecards. Also known in the latter case as 'Management Adjustment'.

1. I don't like experimental physics: too many fudge factors. Where is the predictive value in that?
2. We were pretty much on target last year until the wankers upstairs decided to apply a management adjustment.

by Solitary Dolphin July 26, 2006

de facto

Not acknowledged as official, but real all the same.

There are de facto countries around the world, such as Transnistria, Northern Cyprus, and Somaliland, which the world community refuses to recognize as real countries, despite having their own governments, flags, military, and so forth.

Ashley and Tim are in a de facto relationship. Even though they claim to be single, they're always together and have been for over a year. Duh...

by BGMan August 14, 2008

Burlington Coat Factory

A store that suffers business-wise because 95% of potential shoppers think all they have is coats. In reality, it's much like Bealls, JC Penney, Dillards and the such.

"why the hell would I want to go to Burlington Coat Factory? all they have is coats!"

or do they....

by marmarthe2nd May 21, 2008

clunge factory

brothel ... deriving from the saying 'grunge factory'

i just saw ya mum in the clunge factory

by Kreaper February 10, 2009

Mexican Sausage Factory

A devious sexual act that requires two participants. A more nutritional alternative to the Mexican Chocolate Factory. A woman takes a frozen cooked log of chorizo and inserts it into her vagina and then her partner eats the thawed meat as the chorizo laden woman slowly pushes the log out.

"Did you hear about Megan? She tried to do a mexican sausage factory on herself but wasn't flexible enough."

"Gross dude."

by dfk1989 February 17, 2013