johnmburt1960's definitions

WW55

Driving at 55 mph in a car old enough to have wind wings on the front windows, as an alternative to air conditioning.

After work, let's go cruise on Circle Boulevard, WW55.

by johnmburt1960 August 7, 2006

moonbat

"Bat", of course, refers to members of the order chiroptera (with some contending that the "megachiroptera" of South America should be classified as primates), strange and wonderful animals which are beneficial to humanity. Intelligent, well-educated liberals recognize bats as an asset, and seek to encourage them through environmental protection, including the building of bathouses on the outsides of their homes. The ignorant and superstitious hate and fear bats, and can think of no worse insult than to compare people they also hate and fear (out of ignorance) to bats.

"Moon" refers to Earth's primary natural sattelite, which humans visited for a brief period thanks to a massive liberal spending program. The scientific and technological benefits of the Apollo Project were immense, and would have been far greater if the program had not been killed by a right-wing administration that wanted to spend that money on a futile foreign war. Thus, the Moon is, like bats, symbolic of liberalism and all the benefits it brings to a culture, and naturally will be an object of hatred and fear to the Right.

Combine the two and you get "Moonbat"; environmental good sense, scientific curiosity, prosperity for all and the triumph of knowledge over traditional superstition. In short, all the things that enemies of civilization like Osama bin Laden and Pat Robertson hate most.

I support as continued ban on DDT because I am a moonbat.

by johnmburt1960 April 17, 2005

wolfling

A person, minority group or country seen as getting "uppity" for wanting to be accepted as an equal, in spite of not having a conventional background.

From Gordon R. Dickson's novel "Wolfling", and much used by author David Brin.

"Iraq was seen by Western nations as a wolfling country, daring to rise out of the Third World with things like modern infrastructure, manufacturing and even a space program."

by johnmburt1960 April 26, 2014

Triggered

Exposed to a situation, an image or a comment which stimulates a PTSD reaction

When I said the Bulls got "raped" in their last game, she curled up in a ball and started crying because the word had triggered her old trauma, so I told her to quit being a whiny little SJW bitch.

by johnmburt1960 October 18, 2016

fruad

Fruad (froo-AHD), n.: A person of the highest moral caliber, esp. one who is cheated out of a job which goes to someone grossly inferior

"Hillary Clinton was a fruad!!!"

by johnmburt1960 December 14, 2016

whale dynamite

Trying something which has failed spectacularly in the past, the way that Oregon authorities tried to remove a rotting whale carcass from a beach with dynamite, apparently thinking it would vanish in a fireball rather than being spread over a wide area in the form of chunks of rancid whale blubber -- and then thirty years later tried to do the same thing.

Cutting rich people's taxes in order to stimulate the economy is nothing but whale dynamite.

by johnmburt1960 July 19, 2017

Humansplain

To explain to someone who has engaged in mansplaining, whitesplaining, richsplaining, &c., the error they have fallen into due to their privileged position.

He said he had trouble finding comfortable shoes for the office, too, and I humansplained to him that there is no shoe made for men which was anything like as uncomfortable as the two-inch heel minimum required by the company dress code.

by johnmburt1960 August 2, 2017