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Fahrenheit 451 

Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury, depicting a world in which books are outlawed, and firemen start fires, not put them out. The main character is Guy Montag, a fireman.

The title is quite clever, because at 451 degrees Fahrenheit, paper combusts.

The son-of-a-bitch Michael Moore used the title's theme in his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11", to Ray Bradbury's disapproval.
I read Fahrenheit 451 yesterday, and realized that books and the ability to spread wisdom are very valuable.
Fahrenheit 451 by sihfoagfndhmdfm October 7, 2006
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Fahrenheit 451 

The moment when you realize your out of shit tickets and reach for a literary volume of any kind.
Guy 1 - "Dude there's no TP!"

Guy 2 - "Go fahrenheit 451. I don't read that shit anyway."
Fahrenheit 451 by Nothing2hyde October 13, 2011

Fahrenheit 451 

A book by Ray Bradbury. The story is about a future dystopia. It follows the line of a Heroic Quest. Guy Montag is the good guy. He starts off with the status quo of this society. Books are outlawed and he's agaisn't them. A reason why books are illegal is explained when the false mentor, Captain Beattey, says "Knowledge is like a loaded gun.", basically meaning knowledge can be used agaisnt stupid people. Guy first starts to wonder about his life when Charrise the true mentor ask him "Are you happy?". He realizes his life isn't and he doesn't love his wife, Mildred, who just watches tv all day watching something called 'The Family'.

Guy Montag works as a fireman, which burn books instead of put fires out because houses are fireproof in the future. On one alarm they find a old women on a pile of books in her house, in rebellion against society she lights her books and herself on fire. Before she does that Montag steals a book. He wonders if something in the book will fix his life and make it happy.

He stores it with other books he stole. Beattey knows he stole a book and warns him to burn it. One day they get a alarm and arrive at his house. Beattey gives him a flamethrower and he burns his house down. Beatty taunts him and assaults him and Montag burns him alive. He makes it out of the city to a group of outsiders who read books. They start going away from the city and a nuclear bomb is dropped on it. They decided to head back to the cities ruins and teach surviver's etc. about how life use to be.
Fahrenheit 451 teaches you how knowledge is important.

FARENHEIT 451

“Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! I don’t think we are in love anymore, and I think it’s your fault!” (Bradbury, 68).
This quote is from the book FARENHEIT 451
FARENHEIT 451 by Magaho June 10, 2024
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026

Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand
Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026
Word of the Day on July 16, 2026