A pre-2000 term for someone you correspond with through e-mail and electronic messages over the Internet after meeting them through an Internet forum or other online service.
Bob: Hey Alice, I just got a new Key pal online!
Alice: Wow! Where is your time machine?
Marty: This synopsis for the movie "You've Got Mail" has the word "Key pal"
John: Well, it is from 1999.
The key pal is the new age incarnation of a pen pal. Instead of the traditional pen and paper communication key pals will use email to communicate. This usually results in a lot higher volumes of correspondence.
Computer: "You have new mail."
Nosey friend: "Hey Bob, who's Alice?"
Bob: "Don't read my email!"
Nosey Friend: "But who's Alice?"
Bob: "It's just my key pal."
Nosey friend: "haha, you're sad!"
One with whom friendship is made and maintained mainly through a computer-based form of communication.
Lauren maintained her e-friendship with her keyboard pal Björn well until her 19th year, at which point her travels through Scandinavia brought her to his hometown, where a best-left-forgotten erotic encounter with one of his family's boars left Björn without a home, and Lauren without a keyboard pal.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.