Rufus Silas Wally Review

moil

2008-04-23T10:29:00.000-07:00

\MOYL\, intransitive verb:
1. To work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
2. To churn or swirl about continuously.
3. To die in an ocean of cheap metaphors of your own construction.
4. To try to do so.
5. To fail at dying this way.
6. To keep trying anyway.
7. To have hope for and faith in your eventual failure and to work diligently toward if forever with acceptance and warmth because your confidence comes from your understanding of your innate incompetence and your humility is a product of your strong sense of security and self worth and because you believe that traveling in circles might as well be the same as standing still and/or moving forward because the scenery doesn't change even when it does.
8. To fruitlessly invest in your own stock.

Argot

2008-04-16T17:18:00.000-07:00

\AHR-go; -gut\, noun:
1. A specialized and often secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group, the unsanctioned knowledge of which is punishable by death, and of which the word argot is an example, and you can expect your death sentence, decided by a jury of your peers, written in a language you could never hope to understand, and, besides which, doing so would be punishable by additional deaths, to arrive in the mail shortly.
2. A letter people receive after reading this entry, often with more acceptance than you might think.

\ar-GOT, verb:
1. To wish you never knew.
2. To dance out of desperation.

David Attenborough

2008-01-09T15:33:00.000-08:00

n. Richard Attenborough's brother
v. to be Richard Attenborough's brother

ex. David Attenborough David Attenboroughed Richard Attenborough making Richard Attenborough Richard Attenborugh's brother, David Attenborough.

Silkie

2007-10-21T22:18:00.001-07:00

Silkie
1. n. Chicken, black as your cold dead heart.

Pablum, Pap

2007-10-01T17:46:00.000-07:00

pablum
1. n. a brand of soft, bland cereal for infants.
2. n. trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap.

The professor found the ideas so utterly boring that he quickly shoveled them into his baby's mouth via the "airplane" method.

pap

1.	n. soft food for infants or invalids, as bread soaked in water or milk.

2.	n. an idea, talk, book, or the like, lacking substance or real value.

In need of sustenance, we mingled the Bible with Julia's breast milk and survived on its pap for weeks.

Singularity

2007-09-28T08:55:00.000-07:00

Function: noun
a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative does exist

Tolerance

2007-09-11T13:18:00.000-07:00

noun
the state of willingly taking on the burden of another*

*from the mouth of Garth W. Green, professor of Christianity

Dietary Fiber

2007-09-05T13:28:00.001-07:00

When prompted to define dietary fiber more concisely, the British Nutrition Foundation produced the following definition:

a complex mixture of substances with different chemical and physical properties which exert different types of physiological effects

Upon first analysis, one might conclude that 'dietary fiber' is, in essence, everything. It is you and me; it is the sun and the trees.

However, upon closer inspection, one realizes that, due to the use of the word 'different,' dietary fiber may just become everything that isn't.

Once the definition is understood, it becomes increasingly difficult to argue with anything the British Nutritional Foundation has to say. Simply look forward to greater gastrointestinal health as you consume the void before it consumes you.

lifeball

2007-09-02T22:33:00.000-07:00

v. to ejaculate into one's own mouth

"That guy totally just lifeballed," Dean said as he was shot from his penis to his mouth.

Mire

2007-08-29T09:59:00.000-07:00

Function: verb
to sink in sand, dirt, mud or difficulites

Milksop/Milquetoast

2007-08-29T09:16:00.000-07:00

Milksop
Function: noun

a weak or ineffectual person; a softy, namby-pamby, wimp, milk wiper

Related forms:

milksopism, noun

milksoppy, milksopping, adjective

Milquetoast
Function: noun
a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, esp. one who is composed of toast and flops rapaciously on the school cafeteria floor, sort of sopping up the milk

Middlebrow

2007-08-29T08:17:00.000-07:00

Function: noun
a person who is moderately but not highly cultivated

(Before/After picture provided by North Idaho Farmers association)

Midget

2007-08-29T07:26:00.000-07:00

Function: noun
extremely small person, place or thing

M

2007-08-29T07:19:00.000-07:00

Function: noun
something shaped like the letter M

Thrush

2007-08-28T23:14:00.000-07:00

noun
1. a small to medium sized bird with a plain coloring and a spotted underbelly, many of which are excellent singers.
2. an oral yeast infection

Miracle

2007-08-20T15:46:00.000-07:00

miracle:
Function: noun
Date: 1300-present

1. an unexplainable event caused by a supernatural agency or department
2. an explainable event caused by a small pony

Zap/Zapper

2007-08-15T09:05:00.000-07:00

zap:
Function: verb
Date:1942
to kill or destroy by remote control

zapper:
Function: noun
Date: 1969
hand-held remote-control device for changing TV channels, destroying people, etc.

Ziggurat/Zenith

2007-08-15T08:40:00.000-07:00

ziggurat:
an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top; also : a structure or object of similar form

zenith:
1 : the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer — see azimuth illustration
2 : the highest point reached in the heavens by a celestial body

Standing upon a vast ziggurat in ancient Iran, Joshua noted the point directly above his head. From this zenith, the Boss appeared, shining and swollen. It was Bruce Springsteen, only in the form of a giant breast. Nipple erect, the Boss lowered from that lofty spot, gently locking into place, eternally plugging Joshua's gaping mouth, to the awe-inspiring sound of Downbound Train.

Z

2007-08-15T08:26:00.001-07:00

unknown quantity of variable

Many of your problems will involve the simultaneous use of unknown values. Some of your more personal problems will involve the expression of numerical information with messy or inconsistent situations. You will use the two equations shown below. Have you ever been in love?

Mirror Equation

1 / f = 1/ d_o + 1 / d_i

Magnification Ratio

M = h_i / h_o = - d_i / d_o

Abreast

2007-08-14T08:25:00.001-07:00

adverb or adjective
1 : beside one another with bodies in line (columns of five thousand sailors abreast)
2 : up to a particular standard or level, especially of knowledge of recent developments (abreast of the news)

It may take two to stay abreast, but why be so co-dependent (monogamy is a myth, we're facing the same direction, abounding with columns of handsome sea-faring men piled against our hearts). We're having chicken for dinner.

Our finest act

2007-08-14T08:21:00.000-07:00

Abrade
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): abrad·ed; abrad·ing
Etymology: Latin abradere to scrape off, from ab- + radere to scrape -- transitive verb
1 a : to rub or wear away especially by friction : ERODE b : to irritate or roughen by rubbing
2 : to wear down in spirit

It's your turn; please abrade this rock by rubbing it with your face.

Aboveboard

2007-08-14T08:10:00.000-07:00

adj./adv.
without concealment; fair or fairly; open or openly.

He kept his aboveboard, golden locks aboveboard for all to see, as he danced aboveboard on the aboveboard wooden boards above the above boarding school.

Some ship words

2007-08-14T08:05:00.000-07:00

abeam -- adverb or adjective
off to the side of a ship or plane especially at a right angle to the middle of the ship or plane's length

luff -- noun
Etymology: Middle English lof spar holding out the windward tack of a sail, weather side of a ship, from Anglo-French
1 : the act of sailing a ship nearer the wind
2 : the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail

abaft -- adj
in the stern half of the ship