aaargh plop n.— «Scientists may just be learning what is already common knowledge among Indonesian villagers. Peter Roeder, a consultant for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, says locals have an onomatopoeic name for bird flu...
watch floor n.— «The main working area of the TSCC is the watch floor. The 10,000-square-foot room is equipped with an elaborate briefing and display system. Large plasma screens fill one side of the room, which is known as the...
herb n.— «“Why you acting like an herb?” For those who don’t know, “herb” is a derogatory name that the hip hop generation of African American’s has for people who seek knowledge and don’t want to be...
talk out (the side of) one’s neck v. phr.— «Fuhrman is a creature who seems invented to indict the Juice and engineer his acquittal. He’s a two-headed-talking-out-the-side-of-his-neck beast of the apocalypse, who brought new formations of...
sonking n.— «Years ago, the iconoclastic Professor Andrew Ehrenberg coined the verb “to SONK.” Sonking is an acronym that stands for the Scientification of Non Knowledge.…With a word like sonking at our disposal, we are...
bulllcrit n.— «Bullcrit is what you call an opinion someone expresses about something—usually a work of art, but, really, it could be anything—about which that someone has no actual firsthand knowledge or experience.» —“On Bullcrit:...