A raging alcoholic, wannabe musician/golfer and undercover queer. Has a tendency to hang around multiple drunk females and still goes home alone. Know to take large breasted women on free vacations without engaging in any sexual activity. Uses multiples sexual references to male body parts and homosexual situations in everyday conversations. Butt Pirate. Total fag.
Yeah, he definitely pulled a Jethro Marx.
What? You mean he took Susan on vacation as a cover to sleep with random men? Far out.
What? You mean he took Susan on vacation as a cover to sleep with random men? Far out.
by mrmainvein June 7, 2010
Noun: when someone makes or tells a joke and the joke's intended recipient does not laugh, or the joke is not funny, the joke-teller is said to have pulled a "Richard Marx."
Origin: there is a man who frequents the downtown Syracuse NY scene and who dresses like he's Richard Marx's fanclub president, from his permed hair to his leather jacket to his cowboy boots poking out of his acid-washed tapered jeans. Once when he was spotted at a bar, a waitress was asked by a patron "Hey, don't you think that guy over there looks like Richard Marx?" The waitress responded with only "He's a really nice guy" and walked away from the table. Stunned but undeterred, the patron again said to the waitress upon her return "Hey, seriously, don't you think that guy over there looks like Richard Marx?" to which she again gave only the dead-serious reply "He's a really nice guy." The patron and his friend with him were dumbfounded, and ever since, as this story has been spread, it has been becoming known as "pulling a Richard Marx" when a joke doesn't turn out the laughs it was thought it would.
Tips: when someone pulls a Richard Marx, it is best not to blurt out "You just pulled a Richard Marx!" but rather to subtly inform said offender of his failed humor attempt. Try simply saying "Good one, Richard" or softly singing "Hold on to the nights." Best yet, when you pull a Richard Marx, just call it before someone else does. Try singing "Shoulda known better" as soon as you realize you've Richard Marxed a joke attempt. This might actually redeem you from your humor failure if your company is hip to what a Richard Marx is and they laugh at you calling yourself on it!
Calling a Richard Marx can be risky if other people present are not familiar with the term. If so, you might actually end up pulling a Richard Marx also if you call it and people are confused! Think about the company present, and consider keeping it subtle, before calling a Richard Marx.
Though somewhat malicious, people have been known to deliberately cause another person to pull a Richard Marx by intentionally not laughing at their otherwise funny joke. Technically this is a Richard Marx, but it's not what the term was originally coined to have done with it.
"I Richard Marxed myself" or "He Richard Marxed himself" are never the way to express this humor failure. Simply say "I Richard Marxed" or "He Richard Marxed" if you wish to express it this way.
Origin: there is a man who frequents the downtown Syracuse NY scene and who dresses like he's Richard Marx's fanclub president, from his permed hair to his leather jacket to his cowboy boots poking out of his acid-washed tapered jeans. Once when he was spotted at a bar, a waitress was asked by a patron "Hey, don't you think that guy over there looks like Richard Marx?" The waitress responded with only "He's a really nice guy" and walked away from the table. Stunned but undeterred, the patron again said to the waitress upon her return "Hey, seriously, don't you think that guy over there looks like Richard Marx?" to which she again gave only the dead-serious reply "He's a really nice guy." The patron and his friend with him were dumbfounded, and ever since, as this story has been spread, it has been becoming known as "pulling a Richard Marx" when a joke doesn't turn out the laughs it was thought it would.
Tips: when someone pulls a Richard Marx, it is best not to blurt out "You just pulled a Richard Marx!" but rather to subtly inform said offender of his failed humor attempt. Try simply saying "Good one, Richard" or softly singing "Hold on to the nights." Best yet, when you pull a Richard Marx, just call it before someone else does. Try singing "Shoulda known better" as soon as you realize you've Richard Marxed a joke attempt. This might actually redeem you from your humor failure if your company is hip to what a Richard Marx is and they laugh at you calling yourself on it!
Calling a Richard Marx can be risky if other people present are not familiar with the term. If so, you might actually end up pulling a Richard Marx also if you call it and people are confused! Think about the company present, and consider keeping it subtle, before calling a Richard Marx.
Though somewhat malicious, people have been known to deliberately cause another person to pull a Richard Marx by intentionally not laughing at their otherwise funny joke. Technically this is a Richard Marx, but it's not what the term was originally coined to have done with it.
"I Richard Marxed myself" or "He Richard Marxed himself" are never the way to express this humor failure. Simply say "I Richard Marxed" or "He Richard Marxed" if you wish to express it this way.
Person 1: Man, poor Dave has been pulling one Richard Marx after another today!
Person 2: I know! It's been like a Richard Marx greatest hits tour!
Person 1: Dude, didn't you get it?
Person 2: Sorry bro, my mind was on the Richard Marx concert coming to town today.
Person 2: I know! It's been like a Richard Marx greatest hits tour!
Person 1: Dude, didn't you get it?
Person 2: Sorry bro, my mind was on the Richard Marx concert coming to town today.
by Leinad Sebelk February 21, 2008
A term used to indicate that you will be "right here waiting" for someone. It references Richard Marx's hit ballad "Right Here Waiting", released in 1989.
Sally: I just have to run into the mall to buy a birthday present for my sister.
Blake: Take your time. I'll be Richard Marxing in the car.
Sally: Oh Blake, you're such a patient boyfriend. I'm so lucky to have you in my life.
Blake: Take your time. I'll be Richard Marxing in the car.
Sally: Oh Blake, you're such a patient boyfriend. I'm so lucky to have you in my life.
by Golden Vanilla December 19, 2011
.Lived 1818-1883
.German historian
.Social scientist
.Revolutionary
.Wrote Communist Manifestowith Fredrich Engles in 1848
.Wrote Das Kapital in 1848
.German historian
.Social scientist
.Revolutionary
.Wrote Communist Manifestowith Fredrich Engles in 1848
.Wrote Das Kapital in 1848
by kimmy booth June 1, 2005
by Jeff Takeover June 3, 2010
A German political philosopher who wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party (Communist manifesto), Das Kapital, and was the editor in chief of the liberal newspaper "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". Is the father of modern communism and has a tight grave in england that some idiots tried to blow up with a pipe bomb in 1970.
In works such as Das Kapital and 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, Karl Marx stated that “greed will be the death of capitalism” because the wages of an average working class man was not enough to be put back into the capitalist system. When later capitalist economists read Marx’s writings, the concept of consumerism was born. In this system, a factory worker will be paid enough to purchase a product that his factory made. This purchase allows a manager to extract surplus value from their workers by selling them a product for more than they were paid to make it. Repeat this process for millions of workers, and you have a consumer society. In this way Marx defined modern economics over 150 years ago, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
by matinabetterhat January 19, 2009
Karl Marx was a pretty smart guy, a heavy drinker and smoker, and a lover, too. Aparently a very good father. A scientist who found a scientific basis for socialism, the first step of a type of society called communism, and the first step after capitalism. The father of historical materialism. Always hated people who spoke of a socialism but not including communism, which would automatically follow up after socialism. His picture was pretty much destroyed by people like Stalin, castro, Mao and several socialists.
Karl Marx realized that most people who starve aren't lazy. And that there's something wrong with that. After that, he found out that sience is on his side, too.
by Nikita Lion October 9, 2007