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woo-hoo n. Teenage Sims don’t ordinarily hook up in the game, but one download installs a sudden interest, among younger Sim-folk, in sex (or “woo-hoo” as it’s called in the parlance of the Sims community). (Jan. 14, 2005) [full citation…]

fete like peas v. Interestingly, the only major party listed on the circuit tonight is the Barbarossa Cooler Fete at Chaguaramas.…Not so tomorrow, when the colloquialism “fete like peas” is exemplified.…The excitement continues through the upcoming week with single pan steelbands going through their preliminary rounds…and, of course, “fete like peas” along the way. (Jan. 14, 2005) [full citation…]

mother nekkid n. The spread in the book that purports to show the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court “mother nekkid” as they say in Dixie—photos of older nudists, actually, with the heads of the Supremes superimposed. (Jan. 14, 2005) [full citation…]

gecyberschaft n. Mary Ann Allison of the Allison Group coined “gecyberschaft.” Here’s her idea: sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies described village society before the Industrial Revolution (gemeinschaft) and urban society afterwards (gesellschaft).…So if your unit of community in gemeinschaft was the village, it became “friends and family” in gesellschaft, and it’s now your “primary attention group.” You pay attention to that group (or groups, I’d hope she’d say) and to “groups of purpose”—groups neither bound to a place nor to a particular bureaucracy. In gemeinschaft, your status was ascribed (based on birth); in gesellschaft, it was achieved; and now, in gecyberschaft, it’s assessed. (Jan. 13, 2005) [full citation…]

Reagan’s Bind n. “Reagan’s Bind” describes the conundrum in which one is unable to explain or defend one’s actions except by ascribing them to either: A) malicious intent; or B) glaring stupidity and/or incompetence. To be caught in Reagan’s Bind is like being pinned in wrestling, or checkmated in chess. Actually, in terms of chess, it’s a bit more like realizing that the knight placing your king in check is simultaneously threatening your queen. (Jan. 13, 2005) [full citation…]

gack v. Gacked from Babbs: (gacked? stolen? copied?). (Jan. 13, 2005) [full citation…]

blam n. Spim (IM Spam) is starting to emerge. Blam (Blog Spam) has exploded on the scene. (Jan. 13, 2005) [full citation…]

PITAware n. I propose that a new term be coined: “PITAWare.” PainInTheAssWare—defined as any software or application that gets installed on one’s PC without ones permission to advertise, spy, or overtake which, in the end, ends up being one giant Pain In The Ass both for the end user and the token IT dude that will get asked to help. (Jan. 13, 2005) [full citation…]

homo indifferens n. Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture in Rome, has coined a new term: “homo indifferens,” the indifferent man—indifferent to any particular religious doctrine. (Jan. 13, 2005) [full citation…]

Stradivarus n. Stradivarus can be defined as a piece of junk that’s either a) obsolete or b) in a very bad state and c) looks much older than it is. (Jan. 13, 2005) [full citation…]

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