bandcampgirl183's definitions

Refreshing Routine

When you are so anxious and eager to get new correspondence that you are constantly refreshing every web browser window you have open.

Example of a refreshing routine:
*REFRESH* nope.... no new e-mail on hotmail.... *REFRESH* darn... no new Facebook notifications on gmail.... wait maybe they just haven't gotten there quite yet and I should go check Facebook right this second to see if anything's come in! *REFRESH* oh well. But maybe by now there's a hotmail message! *REFRESH* For real?? There's gotta be a hotmail message by now *REFRESH*

by bandcampgirl183 December 10, 2007

ked

A kind of shoe similar to a sneaker, but it is a solid color (almost always white) and is flimsier than a sneaker. Sneakers go up higher on your ankle than Keds do, thus offering more ankle support. Keds are easier to take off, as you can generally just slip your foot out of them.

Did you see that? That lady was trying to climb that mountain in keds!

by bandcampgirl183 September 27, 2005

plumber

One who fixes or repairs pipes. Plumber has a "b" in it because pipes were originally made of lead, (lead seemed a logical choice at the time, because of its resiliancy against rust... then people discovered what lead poisening was, and rust no longer seemed so bad!) and lead's abbreviation on the periodic table is pb (derived from its latin name).

Plumbers are given little respect, but we wouldn't want to try to live without them.

by bandcampgirl183 October 1, 2005

underdog

Maybe the underdog I know is based on the underdog from the 60's, but the one I'm familliar with was on Nickelodeon, and also spoke in rhymes. He was a cartoon dog, and I think he had a cape.

"There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!" - phrase from virtually every preview/ad for the show.

by bandcampgirl183 September 27, 2005

PEMDAS

The order of operations in math-- Parentheis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction

In 6th grade, we had a sign on the wall of our classroom that said PEMDAS, but when we asked what it meant, the teacher said it meant Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, and she would tell us more later.... needless to say, four months into the school year when she finally DID tell us, it was a letdown.

by bandcampgirl183 October 10, 2005

clear channel

Originally, a clear channel radio station was one that had somehow gotten the right to have a number on the dial with no other radio stations anywhere near it-- therefore, you could hear it for hundreds of miles, both because it had a very strong signal, and because there were no other radio stations with similar dial numbers competing with it.

35 years ago, you could hear WBZ (which was a clear channel radio station based in Boston) as far away as Ohio.

by bandcampgirl183 September 28, 2005

parietals

You ask for parietals if you want to have a MOS in your room. Parietals is not the act of banning them from your room, it is the practice of asking permission, and, at some places, leaving the door partly open (with a shoe or something.) It does not START at midnight.

female boarder: hey, you want to come up to my room????
random guy: um, ok, but shouldn't we ask for parietals or something? Don't want to get in trouble.

"It's not the groping that goes on behind closed doors that I worry about-- it's what goes on behind the open doors that bothers me!"

by bandcampgirl183 September 27, 2005