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

Printer Shit

The event in which one's printer shits out large quantities of paper. This could be the cause of a productive night of cramming a paper, printing a book, or the fact that one's printer randomly prints excessive amounts of paper.

Mike: How did your project go last night?

Brannon: My productivity levels on this project were so high last night that my HP Photosmart Premium took a huge printer shit.

by ifoamatthemouth October 23, 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

meat print

When your bottoms are so tight that there is a visible "print" of your male genitals.

nice selfie bro but I could go without the Meat print

by Fast six April 12, 2016

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

weak point

Some thing you hit for massive damage.

So here's this giant enemy crab, and you attack it's weak point for massive damage.

by GuyQuest September 14, 2006