Monkey Transfer
Monkey Transfer by soat November 22, 2010
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Money Transfer
This refers to a sexual act in which two partners (usually male homosexuals) insert the ends of a single plastic Gerbil tube into their respective anuses and one parter proceeds to defecate into the other one's anal cavity.
Money Transfer by Felchy Felcherstein March 16, 2005
Monkey Transformer
Also known as: Monkey Hits Transformer
A term used to describe a spectacular failure resulting from astonishingly poor planning, incompetent engineering, flawed design, or a complete absence of common sense.
Specifically refers to situations where a seemingly insignificant, entirely foreseeable incident triggers a disproportionately catastrophic outcome because the system was so badly designed that it had practically no resilience, redundancy, or safeguards.
Origin:
The term was inspired by the now-infamous incident of February 9, 2025, in Sri Lanka, when a monkey came into contact with electrical equipment at a grid substation in Panadura, triggering a chain of events that plunged the entire country into darkness.
While the unfortunate monkey received much of the initial blame, the incident raised a rather embarrassing engineering question: How the hell does one monkey manage to knock out the electricity supply of an entire country?
Thus, the "Monkey Transformer" became a metaphor for monumental institutional stupidity, where the magnitude of a disaster reveals just how spectacularly incompetent the underlying planning or design was.
A term used to describe a spectacular failure resulting from astonishingly poor planning, incompetent engineering, flawed design, or a complete absence of common sense.
Specifically refers to situations where a seemingly insignificant, entirely foreseeable incident triggers a disproportionately catastrophic outcome because the system was so badly designed that it had practically no resilience, redundancy, or safeguards.
Origin:
The term was inspired by the now-infamous incident of February 9, 2025, in Sri Lanka, when a monkey came into contact with electrical equipment at a grid substation in Panadura, triggering a chain of events that plunged the entire country into darkness.
While the unfortunate monkey received much of the initial blame, the incident raised a rather embarrassing engineering question: How the hell does one monkey manage to knock out the electricity supply of an entire country?
Thus, the "Monkey Transformer" became a metaphor for monumental institutional stupidity, where the magnitude of a disaster reveals just how spectacularly incompetent the underlying planning or design was.
"They spent millions developing that software, and the entire system crashed because one employee entered the wrong date. What a monkey transformer!"
Monkey Transformer by KtheKandyan October 17, 2026
national transfer money to your daughters account day
April 18th is national transfer money to your daughters account day. Where your parents put money into your account or give you money.
Daughter: Hey mom it's national transfer money to your daughters account day... can I have 50$?
Mom: oh... sure I guess!
Mom: oh... sure I guess!
national transfer money to your daughters account day by Smart Ass Bass May 27, 2018
National Transfer Money to Your Son Day
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A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.
Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.
A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.
A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
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A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.
A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
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