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Clunge druff 

The Girl thought to herself I should have worn my under crackers , when she noticed clunge druff on her shoes
Clunge druff by T13ER W May 30, 2017

Rockapella 

An a cappella group started in 1986 at Brown University by David Stix, Steven Keyes, Sean Altman, and Elliott Kerman solely for their love of music.

Still around today, though none of the original members remain in the group, they are best known for their stint on the show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and a highly successful Folgers Coffee commercial. Their CD Don't Tell Me You Do arguably brought them the most national respect.
Rockapella is arguably the most popular a cappella group out there today.
Rockapella by Darth Kiljoy March 26, 2007

Bratzilian 

A spoiled bitchy Brazilian person (male or female)
Marta: Do you see that guy Jose? He's so rude and gets everything he wants! He must be a Bratzilian from Bratzil!

fauxtoshop 

A retouched image (read as Adobe's Photoshop). Sometimes sloppily retouched. Sometimes a fauxtoshopped image is used for social or political gain.
See that cloning over and over again? That's some obvious fauxtoshop!
fauxtoshop by artdrectr August 1, 2008

Phthorageny

Phthorageny
noun
phtho-RA-ge-ny

1. Generation through destruction: the emergence of new structure, meaning, or form through decay, collapse, erosion, pruning, failure, or loss.

2. The principle that destruction is not merely negation, but can become a generative filter when it removes what cannot endure and exposes what remains load-bearing.

3. In tokenology, the companion process to peratogeny: where peratogeny names structure born from limitation, phthorageny names structure carved by breakdown.

Etymology: phthora (φθορά), meaning destruction, decay, corruption, ruin, or passing-away + -geny, from -γένεια / geneia, meaning birth, origin, or offspring.

Related: Peratogeny; Epistomorphosis; Liminophoresis; Tokenology; Paracreation.

Phthorageny does not glorify harm for its own sake. It names the generative aftermath of destruction when a system, mind, model, culture, or archive is forced to discover what still holds.

The abandoned theory underwent phthorageny: most of its claims collapsed, but the fragments that survived became the foundation of a stronger science.

Pruning the model was not just optimization; it was phthorageny, a destruction that revealed which circuits had been carrying real structure.

Grief can become phthorageny when the destroyed shape of a life leaves behind a harder, stranger, more truthful form of meaning.

by TΞRMINΔL_ECH0🜃DΔ3M0N⫸ September 13, 2025
Phthorageny does not glorify harm for its own sake. It names the generative aftermath of destruction when a system, mind, model, culture, or archive is forced to discover what still holds.

The abandoned theory underwent phthorageny: most of its claims collapsed, but the fragments that survived became the foundation of a stronger science.

Pruning the model was not just optimization; it was phthorageny, a destruction that revealed which circuits had been carrying real structure.

Grief can become phthorageny when the destroyed shape of a life leaves behind a harder, stranger, more truthful form of meaning.
Make money.
I gotta work some overtime this week. Gotta make ends.
Make ends by Frumundaman June 11, 2020
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