Wherever there is a big candidates' debate there is Spin Alley. After the debate, journalists have to write stories, produce TV packages. For this they need quotes and authorized knowers who can talk on camera.
There to provide such are the spinners: hired guns, stand-ins, soulmates who agree to meet the press after the debate to explain why their candidate "won." Of course this is a verdict known in advance; however that fact too is known in advance, so no one really minds. Spin Alley will live again in whatever large, air-conditioned room is next designated for the ritual. Unless it's stopped.
There to provide such are the spinners: hired guns, stand-ins, soulmates who agree to meet the press after the debate to explain why their candidate "won." Of course this is a verdict known in advance; however that fact too is known in advance, so no one really minds. Spin Alley will live again in whatever large, air-conditioned room is next designated for the ritual. Unless it's stopped.
After the debate, I took the press shuttle back to the media center -- and to the small section therein blatantly designated "Spin Alley," ringed on three sides by bare-bones makeshift broadcast platforms and stuffed to capacity with reporters, camera crews and politicos. Everywhere you looked there were clusters of media people surrounding spinners and surrogates, whose names were printed on laminated red signs held high above the crowd by aides. I felt like I was standing in the middle of one of my own damn cartoons come to life.
by Arunabh Das April 24, 2005
Similar to the upper decker but with a European twist. Many european toilets have the tank mounted to a wall up high with a pull cord which is used for flushing. Since the tank is high it is nearly impossible to perform the upper decker so in order to perfect the alley poop one must defecate on a transport medium (bag works fine) and then transplant this specimen into the upper tank manually. The next several victims to use the toilet are left literally with a shitty situation. The alley poop must be used with great caution and requires substantial skills to pull off correctly.
Man Peter was being a total douchebag last night"->"Don't worry about it man, there was 15 seconds left on the shot clock and I hit him with the alley poop
by joetheshow66 May 16, 2011
A bad state of being. Often has to do with ones living situation. Often, an upstanding or wealthy individual who has gone from riches to rags, lost purpose, a job, family, or become an addict.
After my bosses wife and kids left him, he began to drink and now lives in one bedroom apartment on "Shitters Alley".
by Macrent2 September 28, 2009
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by Light Joker April 05, 2006
The areas on a man's skull above the temples where balding begins. Usually significantly paler than the rest of one's face.
by CraigEG April 29, 2008
The stretch of Tierra Rejada road between Mountain meadows and Rite aid in Moorpark, Ca on which police hide either on side streets or in plain sight and prey on unsuspecting motorists.
by ...e..j..f... January 10, 2012