Joe Neubarth's definitions

lame

Usually refers to the lack of awareness of an individual. A person who is not alert to present culture, style or music is LAME

At 29, Bob still lives with his parents and has lost contact with what is happening in our world. He is so LAME!

by Joe Neubarth January 7, 2007

helicopter parent

An individual parent who hovers over their child well into adulthood. Very seldom are there two helicopter parents in one family. One is enough to hover and annoy their thirty or forty year old "child" to the point of extreme exasperation.

He's forty two years old, but his "helicopter parent" mother comes over every day to make certain that absolutely everything in his life is right. (This includes selecting the right food, clothes, furnishings, girlfriends, friends, and job that her darling son has.)

by Joe Neubarth August 2, 2007

GREATEST DEPRESSION

The Global Depression that started in September 2008 and will continue for a dozen years.

The GREATEST DEPRESSION of all time was the global depression that started in 2008.

by Joe Neubarth February 9, 2009

WING NUT

An eccentric who is usually driven by religious fever. They will take irrational social or political positions and not care that people will think that they are off balance. Being extreme somehow substantiates their faith.

Those guys doing the beheadings are all wing nuts

by Joe Neubarth March 14, 2005

Sichuan Sheet

Named after the region in China where H5N1 Bird Flu crossed over into all manner of animals (and humans) and killed them after an outbreak at Qinghai Lakes.

When that happened, the Chinese tried to cover it up by claiming it was "Streptococcus Suis" a (mild bacterial infection that usually does not kill) To honor their "SS" the term "Sichuan Sheet" was coined to highlight the coverup attempt. A sheet is a thin coverup that can be seen through.

Sichuan Sheet is the highly lethal post Qinghai Lakes strain of Bird Flu that is killing humans to the west and south of China.

Those people in Turkey and Iraq are all dying of Sichuan Sheet. When are they going to get a vaccine?

by Joe Neubarth March 14, 2006

basketball jones

A Basketball Jones is an obsession with the sport of basketball. Kids who play the game and only think of the world in terms of basketball and their potential success at it.

That's all he ever thinks about. He's got a Basketball Jones.

by Joe Neubarth January 21, 2005

Internet Zombie

A person who is in need of sleep who is mindlessly surfing the Internet. Usually an insomniac who gave up tossing and turning in bed and who turned on the computer to have something to do.

I have got to see my doctor about stronger sleeping pills. I was up all night doing the Internet Zombie thing. Gosh, I think I bought four or five things last night but I won't even know what they are until they arrive in the mail.

by Joe Neubarth July 12, 2007