the effect of being annoyed, pestered or just plain pissed off by someone who constantly brings up high school stories or talks about their high school friends. rooted in college dorms where one person clings on to their old life instead of meeting new people.
You wanna go out to a party with the girls in 421 tonight?
No way man, they got the Alyssa effect goin on in there, Mary just won't shut up about her friends at home.
The Alyssa Effect is a cycle where the partner in question end their relationships saying they aren't happy and the "significant" other needs to activate conversation, they do this with multiple partners to where it's a cycle, hence the the Alyssa Effect
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.
Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12 lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.