When someone admiringly called a woman “outspoken,” Dorothy Parker is said to have cynically replied, “Outspoken by whom?” Well, according to quoteinvestigator.com, the line pre-dates Parker’s quip. This is part of a...
MTBU n.— «There wasn’t time for the banks to fix the problem if anyone went public with it. Their MTBU was too short. MTBU? That’s “Maximum Time to Belly Up”, as coined by the majestic Donn Parker of Stanford Research Institute...
mallsino n.— «In addition to ensuring our ‘Freedom to Breathe’ (a liberty that was apparently previously restricted), legalizing mallsinos and keeping McFat People for McSuing McFast Food restaurants, our 2005 Legislation also found they...
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adv.— «These controls are hecka hard.» —“Child’s Play II” by Crispin Boyer, Dan Hsu, Parker Ames 1Up.com Dec., 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
DNF adj.— «There is—or was—a cache there called “Valley View Too” which hadn’t been found since last May, though with only one “Did Not Find” logged since then. (Curiously, the caching slang for a failed search...