Pyramid of Screaming

Created by Barney Stinson of the series How I Met Your Mother.

The Pyramid of Screaming is a societal rubric that dismisses the parlor tricks of the Chain of Screaming, Scream Ladder, South Beach Screaming, and other methodologies and focuses on the golden rule of scream etiquette: You can only scream beneath you.

To illustrate how it works, here's the scream pyramid for a professional football team:

OWNER
HEAD COACH
ASSISTANT
COACHES
QUARTERBACK
TEAMMATES
PUNTER

The Head Coach can't scream at the Owner, but can scream at anyone else. The Quarterback can scream at his teammates, but not at his coaches. And the Punter screams at no one. He's lucky to have a job.

It's no different inside your office, as exemplified by my own corporate scream pyramid:

CLASSIFIED
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BARNEY
V.P. SYNERGY
CLASSIFIED
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you find yourself at the bottom, don't fret. The beauty of the pyramid is that there's always someone available to be the new foundation. The janitorial crew, the sleepy-eyed security man, or anyone who doesn't speak English are great places to start.

Example:
Barney: "Hey! Don't yell at me, remember your place in the Pyramid of Screaming."

by klwilson April 29, 2008

scream

what a women does if you fuck her right

she screamed, it felt so good...she'd never been fucked like that before.

by slfsrvcd March 8, 2005

spread oneself too thin

Overextend oneself, undertake too many different enterprises. For example, Tom's exhausted; what with work, volunteer activities, and social life he's spread himself too thin. This expression alludes to smearing something (like butter on bread) in such a thin layer that it does not cover the surface. Jonathan Swift used spread thin in a positive sense, that is, something should occur less often (Polite Conversation, 1731-1738): "They (polite speeches) ought to be husbanded better, and spread much thinner."

With so many layoffs in one's work place there is nothing one can do except spread oneself too thin to keep one's job.

by Lucvan January 16, 2011

spread

1. A whole bunch of food spread out for everybody to have some, such as at a cookout, barbeque, family gathering etc.

2. Things you put onto toasted bread like butter, peanut butter, jam, etc. Or even things such as mayo and mustard to spread on bread for sandwiches

3. "Spread em!" Some shit a cop might say before he pats you down.

If already locked up, you might hear this from a cop so he can look at your butthole.

4. A term used in jails and prisons for food that is made by inmates combining all sorts of items bought from commissary.

Nice spread.

by ProfessorProcrastinate February 17, 2019

screaming seagal

Its when your poundin a girl on the beach and you pull out and stick your junk in the sand and go back in to complete it.

Last night we slept on the beach and i totaly screaming seagal'ed her.

by anthony (twan) April 24, 2008

field of screams

he most badass place in mountville pa where you can go only if your brave enough and think you can make it out alive =p

haunted attraction mountville pa right off of route 30 field of screams is americas #1 haunted attraction

by fosfirefighter April 15, 2011

Screamcore

Screamcore is a genre of music similar to jungle or breakcore. But instead of drum samples, samples of random people screaming are sliced and used as the base of the music.

'wrrRRAAGH. EErRGH. AAH-- EH-- AUGH-- EAYAGH--'

Jimmy: "The fuck are you listening to?"

'Eh-- EH-- YYAAAGH-- ERGH-- AUGH...'

Domenick: "You mean you haven't heard screamcore before?"

'wwwwwwwwrrrrrraaaaaAAAAAA-- AA-- AAA-- AA-- AAA---'

Jimmy: "...No..."

'aaaaAAAA-- aaAAAAAA-- AAAAAAA, AAAAAAAAAAAAAA...'

Domenick: "You're missing out."

by Eldrich Baba Ghanoush May 19, 2014