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One More Turn Syndrome

A condition often associated with strategical games of the video nature. It has destroyed the lives of many, causing sleepless nights and missed job interviews. Symptoms include a detachment from reality, complete lack of time awareness, and an inability to stop mobilizing your forces.

A far greater threat than Restless Leg Syndrome, yet it frequently goes unrecognized and untreated. The Silent Killer.
Scene:

Little Johnny (Age 12) has been playing Civilization 4 for the last three hours.

11:30 PM

Little Johnny: " I'll go to bed after one more turn."

12:30 AM

Little Johnny: "Just one more turn."

1:30 AM

Little Johnny: " I'll go to bed after just one more turn."

7:00 AM

Parents find Little John dead, eyes glued to the screen and only two turns away from world domination. One More Turn Syndrome strikes again.
by Utica May 30, 2010
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A phrase to respond to an unanswerable question. It comes from a review by Possum Reviews on the homemade movie, "The Goblin." In one scene, the goblin kills a homeowner and turns on a propane stove. It is never brought up again and has no reason, so Possum repeats it multiple times in the video.
Friend: Why did your parents make you?
You: I don't know. Why did the goblin turn on the stove?
by CakeLiar November 2, 2020
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Turn me up

"Girl you looking cute today!"
"Girl I know turn me up "
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Alex Turnerism

Being completely, utterly obsessed with Alex Turner, lead singer of Arctic Monkeys. Symptoms may very, but often include: stalking pictures of Alex Turner, daydreaming about Alex Turner, and constantly talking about Alex Turner.
I know. I have a serious case of Alex Turnerism.
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cornerstone alex turner

a man on drugs with a microphone and a red sweater
by george washingtonxoxo June 10, 2021
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How the turn tables

Michael Scott's way of saying how the tables have turned. It is used when you are trying to reference The Office, or if you are simply being stupid.
David: Michael, we need you back in the company.
Michael: Oh, how the turn tables
by imveryveryshort October 21, 2019
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turn on, tune in, drop out

A term coined by Timothy Leary to describe the psychedelic experience. Leary explains it in his book Flashbacks as such

“Turn on’ meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. ‘Tune in’ meant interact harmoniously with the world around you – externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. ‘Drop Out’ meant self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean ‘Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.”
"Like every great religion of the past we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God. These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present — turn on, tune in, drop out." - Timothy Leary
by inner eye April 9, 2011
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