lexicali slim's definitions
a form of dementia affecting the marketing departments of automobile manufacturers which impels them to outsource the naming of their cars to word laboratories. this condition might manifest itself in the form of gremlin x, probe, yaris, altima or routan. unchecked, this condition progresses to terminal vapidity.
valet, i'm in the last stages of preo gizm. could you fetch my car, it's the the gremlin x (probe, yaris, altima or routan)
by lexicali slim September 15, 2009
Get the preo gizmmug. by lexicali slim September 19, 2009
Get the amazon funkymug. the condition of torpor whereby the sufferer relies on the back of his/her car to convey to the world (or those behind them in traffic) their beliefs, hopes, prayers and opinions. extreme cases can damage a car's alternator and/or skew the magnetic polarity of the earth. origins can be traced to tony orlando though not necessarily dawn.
cruel world! so many causes, so few outlets for my ardor!
i must declare what i believe/hope/pray/opine by affixing yet another slogan to the rear of my car by means of yet another magnetic ribbon, this one in hope of finding a cure for the dread
magnetic ribbon syndrome.
i must declare what i believe/hope/pray/opine by affixing yet another slogan to the rear of my car by means of yet another magnetic ribbon, this one in hope of finding a cure for the dread
magnetic ribbon syndrome.
by lexicali slim September 21, 2009
Get the magnetic ribbon syndromemug. one of the oldest, most profitable and notorious of mining companies, recently sold to freeport mcmoran for $26 billion dollars.
ever hostile to workers, phelps dodge spent over a century in a successful attempt beat the union down. it is estimated that pd spent multiples of the price of a reasonable compromise on wages and conditions to avoid being party to such a compromise. in 1917, the year that cleveland h. dodge, scion of the family and executive of the company, funded an edowment in his name for the betterment of humanity, his company coralled 1700 copper queen mine workers at gunpoint, loaded them on boxcars ankle deep in manure and "deported" them to the new mexico desert without food or water.
cleveland dodge, a founding member of ymca, told his pastor he couldn't have any of the huge profits generated by ww1 burning in his pocket and seeded his foundation with $5million. 1917 net profits for pd were $24million.
ever hostile to workers, phelps dodge spent over a century in a successful attempt beat the union down. it is estimated that pd spent multiples of the price of a reasonable compromise on wages and conditions to avoid being party to such a compromise. in 1917, the year that cleveland h. dodge, scion of the family and executive of the company, funded an edowment in his name for the betterment of humanity, his company coralled 1700 copper queen mine workers at gunpoint, loaded them on boxcars ankle deep in manure and "deported" them to the new mexico desert without food or water.
cleveland dodge, a founding member of ymca, told his pastor he couldn't have any of the huge profits generated by ww1 burning in his pocket and seeded his foundation with $5million. 1917 net profits for pd were $24million.
why are there enormous craters, pools of acid, tailings piles and slag heaps blighting the sonoran desert of arizona? phelps dodge.
by lexicali slim September 21, 2009
Get the phelps dodgemug. phenomenon whereby nothing new ever actually happens. millions of angry, brainless, slack-jawed simpletons monopolize every bit of bandwidth extant texting their frustration about this intolerable state of affairs because they believe there must be a reason for their lot, ergo the atmosphere is rent and the culture shifted. the mindless uninspired who insist on affixing a title and definition to a perennial state of nothingness are proof that nothing is ever new. one day it's nascar, the next day teaparties.
it's like- oh, my god- i'm like totally freaking out. peace out, orange county, i'm like so totally over this culture shift.
by lexicali slim February 26, 2010
Get the culture shiftmug. a word smart people use to sound dumb, "proactive" supposes a superior degree of action and, perforce, an inferior inaction and can be likened to the attempt to qualify an absolute. a patent nonsense and specious construct deriving from the same font of blather from which insurance and real estate industry "professionals" drink freely, whence also comes;
"pricepoint", "impactful", "empowered" and "that said". an example of the fundamental paradox of the school of polysyllabic palaver which proves more is actually less.
"pricepoint", "impactful", "empowered" and "that said". an example of the fundamental paradox of the school of polysyllabic palaver which proves more is actually less.
i empowered my client when the pricepoint i suggested proved impactful to the sale of their home. that said, i was proactive.
by lexicali slim September 26, 2009
Get the proactivemug. hyper righteous web journal which entertains some of the most vapid comments ever written by hands with opposable thumbs. apocalyptic doers good gone bad.
this just in from the sanctified offies of truthdig; rush limbaugh is a mean-spirited blowhard, glenn beck holding fay wray hostage atop empire state building threatening world's soy milk supply, oh the humanity (excepting our commenters).
by lexicali slim September 26, 2009
Get the truthdigmug.