Two Hep Cats's definitions

holey relic

An old and worn-out, but cherished, piece of clothing.

Don't you dare throw out my AC/DC t-shirt. It's a holey relic!

by Two Hep Cats September 30, 2012

oink

One Income, No Kids

My girlfriend says I'm a pig, but I'm truly an oink.

by Two Hep Cats September 18, 2012

Phoneto

A photograph taken with your smartphone.

I can't believe how good a phoneto you just uploaded. What kind of phone did you use to shoot it?

by Two Hep Cats July 17, 2011

femagogue

A female demagogue.

Virtually all arbitrarily autocratic rulers were male until 2010, when a number of female U.S. politicians proved that demagoguery could cross gender lines, and the concept of "femagogue" was born.

by Two Hep Cats September 15, 2010

skidmark

TV ad that stays onscreen during the entire program.

TV advertisers started with logo bugs, moved on to pharts and then graduated to skidmarks. Next, they'll move the program down to one corner of the screen and run continual ads over the remaining 90%.

by Two Hep Cats December 9, 2012

The Knecht Effect

The Knecht Effect describes the statistical certainty that, if one has many possessions, at least one will always be in a state of disrepair. In other words -- something always needs fixing. The underlying math is simple, being based on expansion of the binomial (a + b)^n, where "a" represents the probability of something being in good working order, "b" is the probability of it needing to be fixed (note that a + b = 1.0), and "n" is the number of possessions one owns.

(named after the research psychologist, William R. Knecht (pronounced like "connect"), who first noted the phenomenon)

As I got older, I became a victim of the Knecht Effect. I owned so much stuff that at least one thing was always broken, and I was spending half my life getting stuff fixed.

by Two Hep Cats April 22, 2022