uclafalcon's definitions

tsuris

A Yiddish phrase for worries, stress, or hassle.

Oy, Zelda, I don't want to be a kvetch, but I've got tsuris up to here.

by uclafalcon May 3, 2006

international community

The United States' favorite term when justifying its actions against non-Western or Islamic nations. The rationale being that America's not just acting in its own interests, but in the interests of the "International Community."

"(Iran and Syria's) problem is not with the United States, it's with the international community."

- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, February 16, 2005

by uclafalcon February 16, 2005

arrowed

To be attacked by flighted projectiles. A term coined by Strong Bad of Homestarrunner fame in one of his weekly e-mails.

Trogdor the Burninator was arrowed by the archers as he tried to burninate the peasants.

by uclafalcon March 18, 2003

shock and awe

The American campaign of massive aerial bombardment during the 2003 Iraq War that flattened Baghdad.

by uclafalcon March 21, 2003

Towel

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santranginus V, inhaling the beady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the Ravenouse Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you--daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

Often associated with hitchhikers. See hoopy and frood.

Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was.

by uclafalcon March 20, 2003

indeed

Lo Pan's classic line from John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China."

Lo Pan - "And when I find her, I will marry her."
Wang - "Never!"
Lo Pan - "But then Shing Di will be happy and my curse will be lifted!"
Jack Burton - "So you can go off and rule the universe from beyond the grave..."
Lo Pan - "Indeed!"
Jack Burton - "...or check into a psycho ward, whichever comes first, huh?"

by uclafalcon December 14, 2003

cyberholic

A person addicted to the Internet.

He was on the 'Net last night for 14 hours? Man, he's definitely a cyberholic.

by uclafalcon February 2, 2004