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Ken Burns 

Someone who pushs the the documentary format to new heights. Creator of the "Ken Burn's Effect". Strives to make the best public television he can. Your donation is hard at work when he's on the job. PBS without Ken Burns is like the earth with no air.
The Civil War, The Congress, Prohabition, The War, Baseball, Ken Burns: Mission America
Ken Burns by =# September 28, 2011

Ken Burns Treatment 

The act of analyzing or describing an event or series of events in a way that takes much longer than the actual event itself.
"I wish Wendi would get over her break-up with Matt already!"
"How long has it been?"
"Three months, and its all she thinks about! I mean fuck! They only went out for a week."
"Oh no! She's giving it the Ken Burns Treatment. Someone should just run over her with a truck!!"

breatharian 

One whos diet consists of air, light, and prana, with a possible sip of water now and then.
The breatharian has air, light, and prana for food.
breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
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
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026