TagMichigan

sidewalk alumni

sidewalk alumni  n.pl.— «The real alumni are great fans, root for their school, and support it no matter what. Those here that yell the loudest…brag the most…then bail at the first sign of trouble…are what I call the...

piquerism

piquerism  n.— «In Michigan, for example, Detective Lieutenant Darrell Pope, a Vice-Investigator with the Michigan State Police, in a public lecture (May 1, 1979) titled, “Does Pornographic Literature Incite Sexual Assaults?”...

bike whack

bike whack  v.— «Hit CP6 withouyt a hitch and headed to CP7 then a “bike whack” that would take us across a river and through a dense woods.…Most teams would back track the whole bike whack. We took roads...

courtesy crash

courtesy crash  n.— «The other problem is that people in the right lane of westbound U.S. 10 are allowing people in the businesses to turn out into the left lane of the road. Oncoming drivers in the left lane don’t see them entering the...

teaser parking

teaser parking  n.— «Because of the definition of the new urbanism concept, the architecture of the theater had to be redesigned into creating one entrance in the front with teaser parking, and then creating a separate entrance in the...

firehouse primary

firehouse primary  n.— «It can also be argued that Tuesday’s results were just another quirky anomaly in Michigan politics, like…Jesse Jackson’s stunning performance in the 1988 Democratic “firehouse” primary.» —“Ask...