1. A telethon or pledge drive repeated so often that it becomes a constant, shameless, begging for money.
2. That period of time every few months when your local PBS station preempts all your favorite shows and instead runs crap you have zero interest in, interrupting it every ten minutes to beg for money.
Oh Christ! Frontline isn't on tonight because PBS is doing another fucking begathon.
(bar•a•thon) consist in a long distance drinking race.
Typically the athletes involved in this activity will have to choose a neighborhood packed with bars. The race starts in the first bar on your way to the end of the street/neighborhood. The finish line is usually defined by the angle between the sidewalk and the road (the distant depends on the contestants and the drinks). You will have to get one drink of your choice in as many different bars as you can.
Something that must have been heavy during the 2011 Grammys according to news anchor Serene Branson.
"Well a very, very heaveh, ah heavy do it bertation tonight. We had a very dares-dareson...bite let's go ahead, terris tazingless to the bit and have the pet." -Serene Branson
Bertation, a term coined by CBS News' Serene Branson, can be simply defined as a massive error in a normal sentence, where it gives the impression you are either
a.) Possessed by demons
b.) Mentally retarded c.) Having a stroke
d.) From the moon.