Paul Wartenberg's definitions

flcl

abbreviation for wordfooly cooly which is an Americanized translation of wordfuri kuri. Title of an anime mini-series of six half-hour episodes about a boy hitting puberty only to find puberty hitting back...either with a Vespa scooter or a chainsaw-powered guitar. The boy Naota has to deal with an absentee older brother (baseball player in the US) whom he worships, a dad obsessed with manga/anime whom he despises, the 17-yr-old ex-girlfriend of his brother's that flirts with him a little tooooo eagerly, and a possible alien female who moves in as a housemaid but really works constantly to knock battle robots out of Naota's head. Add a robot called Canti that has to eat Naota in order to gain superpowers to battle evil robots, a factory without workers overshadowing the town that's shaped like a steam iron, a secret government force led by a man with the worst fake eyebrows in the history of animation, and a kick-ass pop-rock song "Ride On Shooting Star" by the Pillows and you've got a ready-made cult classic.

flcl? What the f-ck? I've watched it twice and I just barely understand the theological implications of Canti being a angelic Christ figure, but still...what's with the spicy curry?

by Paul Wartenberg August 21, 2003

wikipedia

Internet-based free content encyclopedia that provides entries submitted by regular Internet users, thus covering topics and issues more often ignored by the scholarly print-based encyclopedias. Not everything can be submitted, and there are policies and guidelines that must be followed. Is a distant relative to urbandictionary.com in that they are both free content Internet databases.

Wikipedia has an extensive listing of every major Harry Potter character. Even Luna gets a good-sized entry.

by Paul Wartenberg January 6, 2004

Canada

1) What the United States would be like if we legalized marijuana and brought back hockey;
2) A country bordering the United States with a smaller population, similar dialect, and a political/social ethos that is a hybrid of American individualism and European secularism;
3) Where Americans claim to be from when currently traveling overseas;
4) The country most Mexican and Central American illegal aliens are actually try to sneak into, but have trouble reaching because of the long distances involved, whereupon they find themselves trapped in New Mexico, Texas, California and Arizona.

It's Canada, eh? Keep our cities cleen...

by Paul Wartenberg July 10, 2005

Sinistar

A mid-1980s arcade game where you pilot a ship through an asteroid field mining for bombs to use against a super-demonic space robot called Sinistar, which is being built by swarming drones and defended by fast-firing tanks. Once Sinistar's construction is completed, he starts threatening and taunting you ("Run, Coward!") and makes a beeline to your sorry hide. The stress level involved gets ridiculously high. It is/was quite possibly the toughest arcade game in human history.

Beware, I live.
I hunger.
AAAAAAAURRRRRRRRGGHHHAAAAAAA!!!

by Paul Wartenberg December 10, 2003

California

One of 50 member states of the USA; Largest state in terms of population; home of American film industry; currently topping Florida, New York and Texas as The Most Embarassing State To Live In due to a massively hideous recall effort to install an Austrian actor as governor, at a time of a major budget crisis that will most certainly get worse before the next recall move that will take place the following year.
Also, a state within a day's driving distance to Las Vegas.

I'm voting back in Cali, in Cali, in Cali, I'm voting back in Cali (nah, I don't think so).

by Paul Wartenberg October 5, 2003