Adamis Effect

The Adamis effect is the tendency of immigrant families to the U.S. to alter or change their surnames in order to reflect those of prominent and distinguished historical American families.

The first known case of The Adamis effect in the United States is found in the Greek progenitor of the Adamises of Huntington County, L.I., Stavros Adamis.

In a deeply sly move, Stavros changed his surname from its original Greek form of 'Adamis' to that of the Boston Brahmin elite, 'Adams'. In doing so, he helped perpetuate the misconception that his current descendents do indeed descend from the Boston Brahmins.

Ignorant boy: Oh geeze, Christopher Adams enjoys bloodlines to the Boston Brahmins through his Adams descent!
Scholarly boy: Oh no, dear, Christopher Adams is a Greek boy.
Ignorant boy: I'm confused? He isn't from the Colonial Adams?
Scholarly boy: No, dear boy, this is merely a product of the Adamis Effect.

Ignorant boy: Shucks!

by VictorIII June 8, 2011

Fetterman Effect

Noun: A hipster politician

A tattoo with a Pa zip code

Someone who gains weight ,shaves their head and runs for political office

An individual who directs followers into a massacre or disaster(ie :Captain William Judd Fetterman and the Fetterman Massacre)

In order to appeal to the Youth Vote and gain National media exposure, Mayor Smith followed the Fetterman Effect.

In order to avoid the Fetterman Effect, the school bus driver studied a map carefully, prior to taking a shortcut through a minefield .

by Balingit December 2, 2009

The Butterfly Effect

A part of the chaos theory that states that one small change in a situation(expieramental noise) can drastically change the outcome of an event. Butterfly comes from the example of the flap of a butterfly's wing altering the atmosphere around it causing(or preventing) a major event somewhere else.

Also a movie with that Ashton Cootchie

Example 1: The Butterfly effect is a cool mathematical theory.

Example 2: The Butterfly effect was supposedly based on Chaos Theroy although there is no correlation whatsoever.

by Ryan July 26, 2004

Cobain effect

The inexplicable tendency of people to obsess about a dead rock musician whom they don't like, to the point of wasting their time bashing him on irrelevant websites. Thought by psychotherapists to stem from sexual confusion.

Wow, I'm sick of all these lamestains who post negative crap about Nirvana on Youtube and Urban Dictionary. Too bad about the Cobain effect, iddnit?

by Juan Non-lamestain July 2, 2008

The Axe Effect

The effect achieved when a large group of ignorant and insecure pubescent boys attempt to cover up their smell with excessive quantities of Axe while at the same time forgetting to bathe regularly. The resulting smell is a combination of that of severe B.O. and that of a severe chemical spill.

The Axe Effect is especially prevalent in tenth grade hallways.

Person A: "Damn! What the fuck is that smell?!"
Person B: "Oh shit man, that's The Axe Effect!"
Person A: "Let's get the fuck out of this grade 10 hallway!"

by The J-Spot January 11, 2005

The Kamal Effect

When playing a videogame and someone begins to get aggravated and complain, this person's bitching will incite others to begin bitching and complaining as well and soon everyone will be complaining. People suffering from this usually complain about things related to online lag and people using very overpowered or cheap weapons/set-ups. Usually seen in videogames, the Kamal Effect has been seen within real-life situations.

-Example of a conversation that is affected by "The Kamal Effect", 'Player 1' is the first to complain and his/her bitching will lead other players to begin complaining about every little thing that they don't like.

"That's Bullshit! That shouldn't have killed me"- Player 1
Several seconds later...
"Oh my god! This is so stupid!"- Player 2
Soon after....
"AAAAAHHH!!!! What am I doing wrong!"- Player 3
"I can't play this game anymore it's too laggy"-Player 2
The bitching will continue after the match has ended and will still continue when the next match starts.

A conversation such as this would happen within 30 seconds with comments from multiple people every several seconds or all at once. Good examples of games that this is seen in, Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare 2, Halo 2, Halo 3, Battlefield 1943, Call of Duty: World at War

Treatments: Take a break from the game, Go to sleep, basically do anything that gets you away from what you're complaining about.

Cures: Put your mic on mute so no one can hear you bitching, break your mic, mute the person who started the complaining.

"The Kamal Effect" has been found to lead to conditions such as High Blood Pressure and other stress-related conditions.

by PregoPuncher November 28, 2009

The Jessie Effect

A syndrome that engulfs Big Brother houseguests in the event that fellow houseguest Jessie Godderz gets evicted.

Symptoms of the Jessie Effect include but are not limited to: referring to Catholics as "Judas," arguing ridiculously, becoming very verbal for no reason whatsoever, throwing your microphone pack into the Hot Tub, threatening to shit on everything, general disregard for the welfare of the house, general disregard for Big Brother rules

Chima "Chimarosa" Simone , Lydia Tavera, and Natalie Martinez from Big Brother XI all suffered The Jessie Effect.

As did Libra Thompson, Jerry MacDonald, and April Dowling from Big Brother X.

by imthedomin8er July 31, 2010