Abbreviated form of Modern Conviences; means 'fully loaded". Popular in the 1960's when modern conveniences were new and unusual and 'elective.'
Dweeb 1: Hey, I just got a new cell phone from my company.
Dweeb 2: Does it have all the modcons? Like games, digital camera, customizable ringing?
Dweeb 2: Does it have all the modcons? Like games, digital camera, customizable ringing?
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Oh yeah, Mitch feels passionately about King Trump remaining on the throne - but the McConnell Mask is always in place.
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Get the McConnell Mask mug.(US HISTORY) sector of the Gulf of Mexico seabed in which the Deepwwater Horizon was drilling. The name, assigned long before the platform was erected, is an example of dramatic irony. On 20 April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon blew out*, killing eleven crew members; over the next 12 weeks the wreckage spewed some 4 million bbls of crude oil into the ecologically sensitive region off the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi.
Properly known as the Macondo Prospect, or MC 252 (for "Mississippi Canyon"). Name comes from the fact that major rivers have large, deep underwater canyons on the ocean floor beyond their deltas. Macondo Prospect is formally owned by the Federal Bureau of Land Management (US BLM), and leased to British Petroleum by the {former} Minerals Management Service.
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* "blew out" = past tense of "blow out"; rupture of an oil well, particularly at the well head.
Properly known as the Macondo Prospect, or MC 252 (for "Mississippi Canyon"). Name comes from the fact that major rivers have large, deep underwater canyons on the ocean floor beyond their deltas. Macondo Prospect is formally owned by the Federal Bureau of Land Management (US BLM), and leased to British Petroleum by the {former} Minerals Management Service.
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* "blew out" = past tense of "blow out"; rupture of an oil well, particularly at the well head.
The name Macondo is the same name as the fictitious cursed town in the novel *One Hundred Years of Solitude* by Colombian ... writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Oil companies routinely assign code names to offshore prospects early in the exploration effort. This practice helps ensure secrecy during the confidential pre-sale phase, and later provides convenient names for casual reference
Wikipedia entry, "Macondo Prospect"
Wikipedia entry, "Macondo Prospect"
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Get the Mofon mug.1) Someone who whishes they were Cockney so they can be cool, famous Mockney's include Guy Richie, Jamie Oliver, Lilly Allen, and Obvoiously Kate Nash.
Mockney Singer - Someone who puts on a fake cockney accent while singing to try and seem cool most commonly done in indie music, under the illusion it makes them seem troubled and world weary, but in reality just makes people seem like utter poser wankers
Mockney Singer - Someone who puts on a fake cockney accent while singing to try and seem cool most commonly done in indie music, under the illusion it makes them seem troubled and world weary, but in reality just makes people seem like utter poser wankers
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Kate Nash "'Allo me old china plate - wot say we pop round the Jack tar. I'll stand you a pig's ear and you can rabbit on about your teapots. We can 'ave some loop and tommy and be off before the dickory hits twelve"
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Kate Nash "'Allo me old china plate - wot say we pop round the Jack tar. I'll stand you a pig's ear and you can rabbit on about your teapots. We can 'ave some loop and tommy and be off before the dickory hits twelve"
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