People who use humor and fun to explain things and make them understandable. Splainers often rely on one (or sometimes all) of the following: theme, metaphor (sometimes mixed-metaphors), props, situation, etc…
Jenny cracked me up. Her splainers about how satellite radio works involved coconuts, tin foil, gum wrappers and an Emeril Lagasse beet juicer.
by MementoMMN December 9, 2010
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Reticulating splines started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a "real" meaning, this definition isn't actually correct in the context of its use. It's really a programming joke.
Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Don't want to describe what's holding up the program? It's reticulating splines. Why isn't the Internet working? The splines aren't reticulated. Heck, don't want to explain your calculus assignment? We're reticulating splines this week.
See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.
Reticulating splines started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a "real" meaning, this definition isn't actually correct in the context of its use. It's really a programming joke.
Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Don't want to describe what's holding up the program? It's reticulating splines. Why isn't the Internet working? The splines aren't reticulated. Heck, don't want to explain your calculus assignment? We're reticulating splines this week.
See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.
by ndm13 April 21, 2015
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A figurative term originating in the South used by one who is driving a car with wood grain on the steering wheel.
"I'ma be working wood wheel and catching splinters, riding twenty inches or better on chrome." -Paul Wall, Chunk Up The Deuce
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Get the splankers mug.These fucked up deformed psychos that are the result of excessive genetic modification.Usually seen wearing 50's masquerade masks.Appear in the game Bioshock.Classified by their method of attack:
Thuggish-use blunt objects to try to bludgeon you to death.
Leadhead-use pistols and machineguns.
Nitro-use various thrown explosives.
Spider-uses hooks to crawl on walls and for melee attacks or thrown.Extremely agile.
Houdini-constantly teleports,leaving behind a bloody mist,then reappears,using fire or ice plasmids.
Thuggish-use blunt objects to try to bludgeon you to death.
Leadhead-use pistols and machineguns.
Nitro-use various thrown explosives.
Spider-uses hooks to crawl on walls and for melee attacks or thrown.Extremely agile.
Houdini-constantly teleports,leaving behind a bloody mist,then reappears,using fire or ice plasmids.
Splicers are vulnerable to anti-personel rounds.
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Jenny cracked me up. Her splainer about how satellite radio works involved coconuts, tin foil, gum wrappers and an Emeril Lagasse beet juicer.
by MementoMMN July 17, 2010
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