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Like a pool of cantaloupes

A very aggressive and bad phrase used to describe a not so good time or moment. It comes in many different sayings depending where you're at, other ways to put it are "like a tidal wave of cantaloupe", "an ocean of cantaloupe", "a stream of cantaloupe", and many more. Most commonly this phrase is used to describe an event and how you felt towards it, but it can also be managed to describe your overall mood in general.

The anti of this is "like a pool of melons", which is used to describe a good time or vibe. Both are commonly used in the same context, but feel free to get creative with your melon and cantaloupe water phrases!

The origins of this phrase are unknown, but it's rumored to have appeared in a small town when a man very upset at another ruined a stream by pouring a bunch of cantaloupes in it. This act of anger is what gave this phrase its negative nature and meaning. Most people prefer to stay on the melon side of things due to the more positive point of view, but it's okay to feel a bit of a cantaloupe stream every now and again too.
Person 1: Man, life has been like a pool of cantaloupes lately.
Person 2: I'm sorry to hear that dude, I hope you get a rainfall of melons in your future.
Person 1: Thanks, man.
by The Drawer Goblin February 28, 2021
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Center For Consumer Freedom

The Center For Consumer Freedom (also known as the CCF) is a front group of billionaires who represent the restaurant, alcohol, meat and tobacco industries. It runs media campaigns which oppose the efforts of scientists, doctors, health advocates, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, etc.

Anyone who criticizes tobacco, alcohol, fatty foods or soda is likely to come under attack from the CCF. It's enemies list has included such diverse groups and individuals as the Alliance of American Insurers, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the American Medical Association, the Arthritis Foundation, the Consumer Federation of America, the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Safety Council.

CCF is one of the more active of several front groups created by Berman & Co., a firm owned by lobbyist Richard Berman. Richard Berman originally got his front group started by a $600,000 “donation” from tobacco company Philip Morris.

Berman’s name might sound familiar. In 1995, Berman and Norm Brinker, his former boss at Steak and Ale Restaurants, were identified as the special-interest lobbyists who donated the $25,000 that disgraced then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was hauled before the House Ethics Committee for influence-peddling over the money. Berman and Brinker were lobbying against raising the minimum wage.

In a 1999 interview with the Chain Leader, a trade publication for restaurant chains, Berman boasted that he attacks activists more aggressively than other lobbyists. "We always have a knife in our teeth," he said. Since activists "drive consumer behavior on meat, alcohol, fat, sugar, tobacco and caffeine," his strategy is "to shoot the messenger. ... We've got to attack their credibility as spokespersons."

An article in the December 15,1999 copy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer describes Berman's support for Uniroyal, the company that produces Alar(tm), a pesticide used on apples. Through his Guest Choice Network (currently the Center for Consumer Freedom) Berman published a newsletter that minimized the risks of Alar to children. The newsletter stated, "According to the Environmental Protection Agency, one would have to eat 50,000 pounds of apples a day over a lifetime to contract cancer from Alar." In response, EPA spokeswoman Denise Kearns said, "To my knowledge, EPA never issued that kind of statement." In the end Berman admitted that the source of his information was a statement made by Uniroyal. Alar has since been banned due to cancer risks.

The Center For Consumer Freedom also called the film Charlotte's Web "violent animal rights propaganda". Furthermore, on their website, they state that the live version adaptation of Charlotte's Web is "inappropriate for a G-rated movie".
Don't be surprised if someone calls you a guinea pig to the billion dollar corporations for supporting the CCF.

The Center For Consumer Freedom should be called The Center For CORPORATE Freedom to do what it wants to the public.

While you're supporting the CCF, eating their food with pesticides and slowly getting cancer, they'll be driving in their Jaguar you paid for.
by April J. July 20, 2008
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50 cent

A black man with no talent that was shot 9 times by a blind retarded man with no thumbs.
by Jacob The Awsomest September 3, 2005
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Dell Support center

the dell support center is some thing that can be described as Worse than death
The man called the Dell Support center, and in turn wanted to die
by James2DaJAY August 10, 2006
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Cantankerous

Some one hard to get along with, argumentative, and uncooperative.
Sue Murphy is so cantankerous. She's like a dog with a bone- she just won't let things go.
by Ilovemyself March 10, 2017
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Washingtonian Center

Located in Gaithersburg, MD. Once the best place to meet and hookup with chicks. Unfortunately ghetto people and middle schoolers have taken over. Unless you're in the mood for some Friedchickenisha or a 12 year old girl you gotta go else where to get some digits. The increase amount of security has also made this old gold mine less attractive.
20 year old: Back when I was 16 I'd go to rio with all my buds, meet a girl and take her behind the bushes across the lake and slide into 3rd base every Friday and Saturday at the Washingtonian Center.

16 year old: Man I wish I could of experienced that. I went there last night and it was just a sausage fest with the occasional ghetto girl. I don't think I'll ever get some pootang there.
by The Rio God November 30, 2010
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poison control center

band who gets too much mega-nutrition for their own good
HAVE YOU SEEN POISON CONTROL CENTER? THEY'RE WAY SASSYxCORE!
by up_for_sale January 15, 2004
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