Perky effect

The Perky effect, in psychology, refers to the process by which visual mental imagery is thought to interefere with visual perception. For example, if a person is instructed to project by imagination a tomato or a banana on a while screen, an a faint image of a tomato or banana is projected, the person may not be able to tell the difference between the real image and that which was imagined. Cheves W. Perky did the pioneering research on this back in 1910. This is the first meaning of the Perky effect.

There is another meaning: the Perky effect is what happens when you go braless on a cold day.

Thomasina loved cold days because of the perky effect.

Perky effect by eViL pOp TaRt October 20, 2010

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The Tyler Perry Effect

A phenomenon when only black people think dry jokes about themselves being loud, rambunctious, classless, and uneducated people who lack long-term goals, are just hilarious.

Sorry, I don't watch shows that aren't comedic in the least, you faggot. God, another victim of The Tyler Perry effect.

The Tyler Perry Effect by dicksneezemgee April 27, 2011

The Perry Effect

The Perry Effect states that someone or something is completely inconspicuous or unrecognizable unless they possess a characteristic item.

The Perry Effect derives from the character Perry the Platypus from the American TV show, "Phineas and Ferb", based on how the villain, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, cannot recognize Perry the Platypus unless he is wearing his signature hat.

Some guy: *sitting on a bench, listening to music*

Onlooker 1: Oh, look, it's just a guy hanging out

Some guy: *takes out a skateboard and skates away*

Onlooker 1: TONY HAWK THE PRO SKATER!?

Onlooker 2: The Perry Effect strikes again.

The Perry Effect by akuwardmoments May 2, 2021

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Perk effect

when someone tells you to buy a game and then they never play it with you

person 1: man i just bought this game and he wont even play it with me

person 2: man thats the perk effect now you lost your money

Perk effect by inks333 June 1, 2025

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Perk effect

when someone tells you to buy a game and then they never play it with you

person 1: man i just bought this game and he wont even play it with me

person 2: man thats the perk effect now you lost your money

Perk effect by inks333 June 1, 2025

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🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.

Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻

🤡🫵🏻 by Ubeenbamboozledson May 31, 2026

Word of the Day on June 1, 2026

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fogey

Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!

You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

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