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Released every Friday, Background Noise is a talk radio show located in Halifax, Nova Scotia and consisting of Luke James - a writer, Derrek Ord and Devin Deuville - 2 film makers and Jon Sangster - a computer programmer. Recorded at 6:00pm EST on Thursday night, Background Noise also streams video of the recording live on uStream. During the live broadcast, the stream and chat will be available at backgroundnoise.ca
Background Noise: we talk about interesting things and make them gross.
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background noise

background noise (BACK-ground noys) noun. The legitimate and ever-increasing inquiries and comments directed at US government officials in regards to their activities and questionable procedures.
George Senior: Son, what is happening with your second term? You only have a 28% approval rating.
Laura: He's been drinking again and his buddies are getting busted left and right.
The Twins: Daddy, you just need another crisis to fix then the people will stop questioning and doubting you.
George Junior: Who cares? As long as I can declare martial law it's all just background noise. Now, where is my copy of Mein Kampf?
background noise by ol Neddy Ludd December 28, 2005

Background Noise

A television show / movie you’ve seen enough times that you know the plot by heart and it no longer requires active attention to follow, so you watch it while you’re completing other quiet activities, to fill the room with some kind of noise.
Friend: Hey, I thought we were going to study, why is Friends/Seinfield/The Office/Parks and Rec on?
You: I’m not watching it, it’s just background noise, let’s study!

Blackground Noise 

Unwanted, incomprehensible , high volume, noise that is produced by a group of black people all talking at once.
Person 1: My black friends and I went to see a movie last night.

Person 2: That's cool. How was it?

Person 1: We had fun but, I couldn't even hear the movie because of all the blackground noise they made.

bartground noise 

The background noise that occurs when one is talking on the phone while riding the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
I was trying to talk to Joe, but there was too much bartground noise to hear him.
bartground noise by nominalstate October 5, 2012
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Back when I lived in upstate new york 

A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.
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Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
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Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
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Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
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Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
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