Pontiac GTO

The original muscle car. GTO stands for "Gran Turismo Omologato" which is Italian for Grand Accredited Touring. The nameplate was originally just a performance package for the Pontiac LeMans and the Pontiac Tempest. For a $296 premium, the car could be had with a 389 c.i.d. 325 bhp V8. A more powerful "Tri-Power" engine with 348 bhp was also available. Tri-Power refered the the three two-barrel carbouretors that the engine had. The car did so well that the GTO later became its own model.

In 1969 Pontiac released the "GTO Judge", an appearance package which included the Ram Air III engine, styled wheels, a Hurst T-Handle shifter, wider tires, various decals, and a rear spoiler. With just under 7,000 made, this is one of the most collectable Pontiacs.

The oil embargo of the seventies killed all muscle cars and the GTO became a compact based on the Nova. The GTO had passed on in 1974.

Thirty years later, Pontiac released a redone version of the Holden Monaro and labeled it the Pontiac GTO. Originally equipped with the 350 bhp 5.7 Liter LS1, the GTO was a respectable performer. The 2005 and 2006 models got the 6 Liter 400 bhp LS2 which really made the GTO a rocket.

The last of a dying breed, the GTO will cease production at the end of 2006. Many people miss what it has to offer; large doses of power and an exceedingly comfortable cockpit for a reasonable price. The GTO doesn't have much competition. Many people are turned off by the seemingly bland styling, or the fact that it is an Australian-built car. About 40,000 have been sold from 2004 - 2006

"The Pontiac GTO was the first car to introduce the concept of putting a silly-stupid-powerful engine in a run-of-the-mill sedan."

"The new Pontiac GTO is an underrated well-rounded performer and a great value for money."

by VooDooXII August 2, 2006

ponti

A British military expression/acronym standing for, "person of no tactical importance." Usually restricted to combat service support troops such as supplies, engineering maintenance and other non-combat troops. American equivalent is REMF

Used to describe someone of little use, neither use nor ornamnet

That man couldn't find his arse with both hands. He's a complete ponti.

by RFN March 9, 2008

grosse pointe towney

Middling-class Grosse Pointers whose social status has declined CONSIDERABLY the past two decades or so on account of regional economic decline, a burgeoning newly affluent group of parvenus, and their own personal financial misfortunes. While never as wealthy nor distinguished as some of their blue-blood, mansion-owning neighbors, this group once enjoyed a reasonable level of material comfort and local prominence back in the pre-cable TV, pre-PC, pre-internet, pre-cell phone age (nee' Cold War era) and tended to predominate in those avenues of community life usually considered "common": little league baseball, brownies and cub scouts, city and municipal gov't, ice cream socials, PTA, et al. Alas, since the Reagan presidency, this sub-culture, like the plight of most middle class Americans everywhere, has slowly dissolved away to the newer and more affluent types with their store-bought designer clothes, McMansions, strange accents, and even more questionable occupations in some cases. This has forced some GPers, as a means of survival, to choose either "trading up" - at the risk of being referred to derisively as "bourgoise", "new money", or "traitors to their former class" or a decidedly LESS inviting move "down market" at the further risk of being declared "declasse'." Those who try to stay as they are (somehow defying social gravity by hanging on by their fingernails), do so at the risk of acquiring the ambiguous and rather demeaning moniker "towney." People residing in this new-found purgatory give themselves away unintentionally but unmistakably: deferred maintenance and repairs on homes, older and/or used cars, worn and out-dated furniture, fewer social events, little or no holiday celebrations, et al. "Towney" in this context means precisely what it implies: residents of a notable town or prominent enclave who themselves possess neither the stature, influential ties, nor net worth of its more pedigreed citizenry and often find themselves "jobbed out" by such gentry, or scrounging for other meager income opportunities in order to make ends meet. This phenomenon, while specific to the above mentioned locale, is more than likely occurring in any number of formerly respectable pre-World War I communities across the United States.

The film adaptation of the novel "House Of Sand And Fog", while depicting an old Iranian family in social and economic decline (and their rather desperate attempts to camoflage said occurrence) could easily be transposed to reflect what a great many current (and former) Grosse Pointers are going through in light of changing times. Never with a bonafide pedigree and a sudden lower status, they become, in effect, Grosse Pointe Towneys. Oh, how the mighty have fallen !

by Thorstein Veblen April 21, 2008

Triple Point

In scatodynamics, the triple point of a feces is the temperature and pressure at which three phases (for example, gas, liquid, and solid) of shit coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. This is the perfect storm of gastrointestinal problems.

Chris was riding in the car and wasn't sure if he had to fart, shit, or maybe have diarrhea. "I think I'm at the triple point!" he exclaimed.

by Taco.P March 14, 2009

Pontarsonist

A person who repeatedly burns bridges. From the French 'pont', meaning bridge, and the English 'arsonist', meaning one who maliciously sets fire to property.

Jen used to have a lot of friends but she's such a pontarsonist that nobody talks to her anymore.

by neologismo March 6, 2011

farting point

After some time in a relationship with a woman, the man will feel comfortable farting loudly in her presence. This point in time is the farting point

-Jill and I have been together 5 months now

-Have you reached the farting point yet?

-Nah, she's a bit too frigid

by Zamb August 5, 2009

lad points

points obtained by acting in a way deemed to be "ladsy" or showing lad behaviour and/or attributes

Guy 1: I took 3 gibbons on the weekend and had sex with the biggest dardi ever while her parents were in the next room
Guy 2: Traauueee!! 80,000 lad points! That is so ladsy!!

by phaterection October 22, 2006