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Ted Stevens 

Shamefully ignorant and criminally insane, Ted Stevens is an Alaska senator. Too old to understand things, Ted Stevens thought the Internet was a "series of tubes." Also tried to build a $200mil bridge to a property he owned. Set phazers to steal.
Ted Stevens: aka "A series of Teds" and "The Pork King"
Ted Stevens by author September 1, 2006
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Ted Stevens 

Theodore F. Stevens, referred to affectionately by Alaskans as "Uncle Ted", was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Alaska, serving from December 24th 1968, to January 3rd, 2009. He was formerly the longest serving Republican U.S. Senator in history, as well as currently being the most senior U.S. Senator to lose re-election. He is famous for his Series of Tubes quote, which brought him wide-spread ridicule on the Internet, namely the blogo-sphere. He was very successful in developing Alaska, with Alaskans nicknaming federal dollars brought to the state for it's development "Stevens money". He died on August 9th, 2010, in a plane crash that killed 5 and injured 4.
Ted Stevens said the Internet's a series of tubes.

He's Ted Stevens, he's always right.
Ted Stevens by Alamkan Countryball January 8, 2022

Ted Stevens 

The Alaskan Senator who invented the internet by creating a series of tubes. and just recently these tubes were being clogged by movies streaming across the series of tubes. He belives people are treating it like a big truck
Guy 1: Ted Stevens is out trying to protect the tubes again
Guy 2: oh shi- i thought it was a truck
Ted Stevens by All-American-Badass February 21, 2009
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

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Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
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Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
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murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
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