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Charlie Parker

Charles "Bird" Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955)was an African-American composer and jazz alto-saxophonist. He is considered a great jazz innovator and revered, by many, as a musical genius.

He and fellow musician, Dizzy Gillespie, were the founders of a new sub-genre of jazz music, Bebop. Many of Parker's songs have become jazz standards and are widely incorporated into many current jazz musicians' repetoires.

Parker's was a complete virtuoso on his sax. His style of playing way fast, lyrical, and rhythmicly complex and his popularity brought an onslaught of copiers who transcribed and played his solos note-for-note.

He, like many musicians of his time, was a chronic heroin user and it was this activity and the effects of heavy drinking that ultimately led to his demise in 1955. News of his death travelled quickly through the jazz community and soon the phrase "Bird Lives" appeared as graffiti across New York subways.

His music has inspired many great musicians such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, and Yo-Yo Ma.
Charlie Parker is one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.

Bird Lives!
by au-town July 26, 2006
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Charlie Scene

Awesome yell-rapper for Hollywood Undead. He's just really good with being... Him. Even at an old age with the odd name Jordon Terrell, he's still awesome.
This girl's seventeen
Now I'm a pedophile
Now she's showin' me her tits
I think this girl's gone wild
I whipped out my dick
And her jaw hit the floor
Actin' like she never seen a MAGNUM before
-Charlie Scene; "Bitches" (Swan Songs Album)
by Jigginsmusic January 8, 2013
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NO CARRIER

The error message given by a modem when the telephone line carrier signal is lost. In the days of BBSs this was a frequent occurrence, often at the very moment someone was typing a sentence. Loss of signal would cause a string of garbage characters to be displayed to the recipient.
In later years this gave rise to an unending joke, depicting someone getting forcefully interrupted or otherwise cut off the internet, out of spite, in the middle of a particularly boring thought, irritating tirade, or some Famous Last Words.
"Backups? BACKUPS? We don' NEED no STEENKIN' BAC{`+#$%{`&+#{@$`%+NO CARRIER
by The 2-Belo June 29, 2004
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Grilled Charlie

Peanut butter outside, butter inside, chocolate inside, cheese outside.
“A Grilled Charlie has peanutbutter last! Peanutbutter outside, chocolate inside! Butter inside, cheese outside!”-Charlie day
by ChemicalALi January 14, 2009
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Carrie Oakie

Featured unknown and pathetic alcoholic uberstar of the sleazebag karaoke bar scene.
I caught her sad, nearly invisible act at the Holiday Inn right before Carrie Oakie went permanently face down in a bowl of peanuts.
by Dr Bunnygirl May 29, 2019
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Charlie Phillips

A wack ass drugger who has to wait 5 years to take his girlfriend to prom. This can be used as a slang term for nonce.
Yo Danny finger fucked his little sister, What a Charlie Phillips.
by Lego pornhub sets February 26, 2020
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Bastard carrier

Any "people carrier"-type vehicle, named after the social losers it is used to transport.

Particularly defines the Citroen Xsara Picasso, a vehicle so devoid of style and aesthetics that kittens have been known to die just from seeing one in the distance.
The fat bastard and his enormous scowling wife bundled their revolting sticky children into the bastard carrier & headed off to Maccy D's to shovel burgers into their obese, slack-jawed faces for the third time that day.
by antiseptic September 6, 2012
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