Best explained by Frodo Baggins to Gandalf about Bilbo’s 111th birthday.
"Half the Shire's been invited. And the rest of them are turning up anyway."
Often happens at weddings and teenage/frat parties or events in small towns. What happens is when you invite your “A List” of family and friends half say they are not coming. So you send out your “B list” to give them a chance to come and hopefully keep the minimum number of people you set out to invite. However what can happen instead is that the people who said they weren’t coming come and even brings guests as well. Because of the majority of people moving in with each other instead of getting married marriage has become an "event".
"Half the Shire's been invited. And the rest of them are turning up anyway."
Often happens at weddings and teenage/frat parties or events in small towns. What happens is when you invite your “A List” of family and friends half say they are not coming. So you send out your “B list” to give them a chance to come and hopefully keep the minimum number of people you set out to invite. However what can happen instead is that the people who said they weren’t coming come and even brings guests as well. Because of the majority of people moving in with each other instead of getting married marriage has become an "event".
Mother of the bride: "Hey was that the Andersons? I thought the invite said that they couldn't bring their kids. And who is that?"
Maid of honor"Its the Shire effect mom."
Maid of honor"Its the Shire effect mom."
by thehostesswiththemost-est December 04, 2011
A: “I used to really like this song, shame it was ruined by the tiktok effect.”
B: “I hate it when that happens.”
B: “I hate it when that happens.”
by kaydoquint September 09, 2021
Optical illusion when someone walks/runs into a clear, very clean glass (usu. sliding) door, thinking the door's open.
by JenParker April 09, 2010
by naechange May 17, 2021
when your affection for someone else overspills and you end up posting an incomplete yet meaningful text in a word game chat box
by probablysike October 05, 2021
Person: Hey did they play Party Rock Anthem last night?
Fortz: Well yes but in my personal conviction, the song has become hackneyed, banal, platitudinous and trite.
Person: Thats literally all of the synonyms. Fortz effect.
Fortz: Well yes but in my personal conviction, the song has become hackneyed, banal, platitudinous and trite.
Person: Thats literally all of the synonyms. Fortz effect.
by George Peabody Twerkington IV September 29, 2011
The luc effect is when someone is entirely adorable because they are attractive.
No matter what they do people say 'Awww' instead of 'that's gross'.
No matter what they do people say 'Awww' instead of 'that's gross'.
Eg 'he went for a shit in the woods'
'Oh my god, that's so cute'
Must be the luc effect.
loo-k ee-fect
'Oh my god, that's so cute'
Must be the luc effect.
loo-k ee-fect
by RaeBees February 13, 2016