White House of Ill-Repute NOUN (huite hows uv il re peut) NOUN. A White House (1600 Pennsylvania Av., Washington D.C.) which is filled with whores like James Guckert and Scott McClellan, who will say anything for money is a house of ill-repute, or whorehouse (see “presstitute”).
"Sit there with all the other presstitutes and suck up phony press releases and talking points? Fuck that. I'd rather be out in the field, or digging through dusty old archives than cover that dog-and-pony show. I don't wanna be a press correspondent in the White House of Ill-Repute."
by Maxhole June 24, 2009
choice bro,now that's as clean as your mother's reputation
by S & A May 18, 2007
The point where someone's reputation is tarnished for good. Similar to the event horizon of a black hole (once it's crossed, nothing can escape the hole's gravitational pull, not even light itself), it is no longer possible for someone past the abyss to restore their reputation. If they try to, they will be shunned, ignored, or otherwise prevented from succeeding. If they do manage to restore their reputation, that means they never actually crossed it in the first place.
I think O.J. Simpson crossed the reputation abyss when he was suspected of murdering his wife and her friend. Despite his acquittal, his reputation was irreparably damaged.
by Purplax November 27, 2024
by identitycred September 09, 2009
The free spirit/non-reputation is still a reputation. The person still has to keep up their counter-reputation, otherwise people will find out what they really do when nobody is looking.
Someone claiming to be a free spirit isn't really someone that doesn't care what anybody thinks of him/her, it is somebody desperate to convince people that he/she doesn't care what anybody thinks, and the same applies to any image someone goes for (including the telling everyone else to be themself image even if they already are themselves). As long as the person has to convince other people they don't care what anyone thinks of them, they have a reputation of some sort to protect, no matter what they tell you to the contrary.
by The Original Agahnim December 03, 2021
A reputation is not something just one kind of person has. It either applies to everyone or it applies to no one.
by The Original Agahnim December 03, 2021