term used by educators to describe a psychologist,social worker,or any person with a box of kleenex who arrives at the school in the aftermath of an unfortunate event.
When a freak bunsen burner accident singed the moustaches of a male and two female students, the high school called in a grief counselor.
A person who spends their summer working at a camp (think cabins and small children). These individuals fall into three categories; people that like working with children, people that use to go to the camp, people that like to drink with the people in the first two categories. These employees make almost no money and therefore have some external motivation for working at camp.
One of the perks of being a camp counselor is the great tan you get while working outside, a downside are the small children that might drown while you tan instead of life guarding.
When you're at SEP in a food line (either at O'Hill or St. Anne's) and a counselor gets in front of you, apparently for no reason, saying "counselor cuts!"
Counselor 1: I have counselor cuts, man! I get to get in front of you!
Counselor 2: No way. I was standing here forever, wasn't I, Ellie?
Ellie: Um... I don't want to get involved.
Texas is categorized as a swing state in presidential elections, but has voted for Republicans more times than for Democrats in recent history. As such, as demographics change political alignments, some Democrats believe that Texaswill vote blue, or Democratic, due to their Hispanic and African American voters, who often align themselves with the Democratic Party's liberal wing.
Blexas has been cited as possible in the upcoming decades, but only if Democrats continue to win the Hispanic vote in bigger margins.
Democrat 1: What is your prediction for the 2024 presidential election?
Democrat 2: Well uh, Blexas!
Democrat 1: You've been saying that since 2008 though.
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.
Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.