When all persons attending a show wait until the "quiet point" ,right when the show begins, and all suddennly get an "itch" in the back of their throat and must all start Caughing unanimously. sometimes funny but always very annoying and usually occurs at any high school performance when the lights go down
"Dude I was at the band concert waiting for it to start, and when it did it was a total case of Crowd Caugh Phenomenon"
by Skylo4593 May 27, 2009
Get the Crowd Caugh Phenomenon mug.The sudden inexplicable inability to demonstrate an action to an audience specifically summoned to view said action.
This phenomenon receives its name from the premise of a pet "talking" parrot who is suddenly silent when guests are invited to see it "talk." "I swear!," says the owner, "He says all kinds of stuff! He says 'hello', he says our names! Really! I don't know why he won't do it now...." while the guests nod and say, "Suuure, he talks. We totally believe you."
This phenomenon receives its name from the premise of a pet "talking" parrot who is suddenly silent when guests are invited to see it "talk." "I swear!," says the owner, "He says all kinds of stuff! He says 'hello', he says our names! Really! I don't know why he won't do it now...." while the guests nod and say, "Suuure, he talks. We totally believe you."
EXAMPLE:
You "Every time I try to load this page I get a weird error message. I restarted and everything. Come in here and look at this."
IT Employee: "OK, show me what it's doing."
You: Repeat action that has resulted in a error 17 times in a row. Page now loads no problem. "I swear, it was giving me an error every single time before you were standing here. Talking Parrot Phenomenon, right there."
IT Employee: Gives you skeptical eye.
You "Every time I try to load this page I get a weird error message. I restarted and everything. Come in here and look at this."
IT Employee: "OK, show me what it's doing."
You: Repeat action that has resulted in a error 17 times in a row. Page now loads no problem. "I swear, it was giving me an error every single time before you were standing here. Talking Parrot Phenomenon, right there."
IT Employee: Gives you skeptical eye.
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"Doesn't it seem like the ride home was so much shorter than the ride to the concert?"
"Sounds like Goyal's Phenomenon."
"Sounds like Goyal's Phenomenon."
by Official Webster November 25, 2017
Get the Goyal's Phenomenon mug.Did you see that medicine cabinet door open on its own??? Must be that auto opening medicine cabinet phenomenon!
by Perry Menos December 20, 2019
Get the auto opening medicine cabinet phenomenon mug.The Malfac Phenomenon is a phenomenon when people start a hoax, but bad people that aren't in on the hoax start actually doing the hoax, so the hoax actually becomes real. It was never meant to be real, but because bad people didn't know it was a hoax, they started doing what the hoax said they would do, its just a whole thing and it exemplifies how terrible the human race is.
by Bloom.42 July 4, 2020
Get the The Malfac Phenomenon mug.A phenomenon where someone hallucinates all versions of bowser. This leads to multiple personalitiy disorder and then the denial and acceptance of bowsers non existence in this world this will lead to an inevitable yearn to be desired by bowser and there for will be followed by suicide. Sad really.
by Get Rick rolled January 1, 2021
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