Boil-o
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Boil-o
A magical substance which emerges when heating water over a gas stove which has the same effect of heating water as the burning gas.
Boil-o
A term coined by Michael Stevens of Vsauce, Boil-o is an invisible, undetectable, unverifiable/unfalsifiable substance that appears whenever things begin to boil. While, yes, the phenomenon of boiling is perfectly explained without Boil-o, Boil-o is still there.
Boil-o is used as an example of redundancy. If a phenomena is perfectly explained without something, why include the something?
Boil-o is used as an example of redundancy. If a phenomena is perfectly explained without something, why include the something?
"Johnny: Yo man, I'm cooking up some pasta, you want some?
Mike: Yeah, sure, just start boiling the water.
Johnny: Don't you mean "apply BOIL-O to the water?"
Mike: For fucks sake, John, I don't want to get into this philosophy shit, it's been a long day, just- just tell me when you're done, alright?
Johnny: Jeez man, fine, I'll tell you when it's done.
Mike: Thank you.
Mike: Yeah, sure, just start boiling the water.
Johnny: Don't you mean "apply BOIL-O to the water?"
Mike: For fucks sake, John, I don't want to get into this philosophy shit, it's been a long day, just- just tell me when you're done, alright?
Johnny: Jeez man, fine, I'll tell you when it's done.
Mike: Thank you.
A boil on the ass of society
Someone who is literally a pain in the ass. Not only to one or several people but to society as a whole.
A boil on the ass of society by Jumpingrat September 3, 2008
boil over
boil over by Captain Wacky August 28, 2007
Boil Over
"I know there is so much on your mind, I know you wish you could rewind and go back to when the water was cool. cuz now you don't know what to do"
"I'm just trying not to BOIL OVER"
"I'm just trying not to BOIL OVER"
boil the ocean
To waste one's time attempting to do the impossible.
Scope is too big to do in one project. Break it up into more than one. Don’t try to solve every problem at once. Identify a couple, address them, and move on.
Scope is too big to do in one project. Break it up into more than one. Don’t try to solve every problem at once. Identify a couple, address them, and move on.
You're wasting my time. You might as well be boiling the ocean.
Perhaps your scheme to connect all the computers together in the Internet in order to communicate with alien intelligence is a bit ambitious. Try something less difficult like boiling the ocean.’
In Obama's first year as President, he was trying to boil the ocean.
Perhaps your scheme to connect all the computers together in the Internet in order to communicate with alien intelligence is a bit ambitious. Try something less difficult like boiling the ocean.’
In Obama's first year as President, he was trying to boil the ocean.
boil the ocean by doubleyoujiii January 23, 2010