gnostic3's definitions

loose maul

n. Rugby term for a savage pile of crushing behemoths that isn't quite as organized as a scrumor as jumbled as aruck.

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Penalty to red:; offside:; a loose maul had formed ... I think.

by gnostic3 October 11, 2019

two-timer

N. Deceptive ice-hockey shot where a player deliberately misses a quick shot from a pass and then blasts a shot with a second swing of the stick.

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Nice miss Jacques!

No, no! It was the two-timer. I meant to do like that.

by gnostic3 January 1, 2015

shandro

v. To destroy one’s infrastructure, resources, or personnel through mismanagement.

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Why did the CEO choose to shandro the company? We will never recover.

by gnostic3 March 15, 2021

trumple

The act of presenting a prejudiced opinion with mindless swagger.

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Boy, that Mussolini knew how to trumple an opponent.

by gnostic3 July 30, 2016

group stage

n. The extremely boring predictable preliminary portion of any event or proceeding.

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The annexation of Austria and the invasion of the Sudetenland were just parts of the group stage of WW II.

Like the Iowa caucuses?

Exactly, only with less megalomaniacs.

by gnostic3 November 21, 2022

indigeneity

adj. Possessing a degree of aboriginal blood, or spirit, or, at the very least, having a working knowledge of a John Wayne movie or the poem “Hiawatha”.

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I think my class visit to the reserve gives me enough indigeneity to qualify for an aboriginal action bursary.

Ingenious!

by gnostic3 November 10, 2022

Jasper

place. Rugged Canadian park full of pointy mountains and deep slot canyons that both provide delightful vistas and chances to lose a limb. Bears, hungry and ornery 24/7, compete with bighorn sheep and rutting elk for handouts from misguided tourists. Avalanches of snow and skiers in winter and rock in summer often flatten the frankly decaying townsite but a thriving gravel-extraction industrial plant working on the mounds of tailings from the failed gold industry and moraines from the failed glacier industry are turning things around. The recent anti-masking truck convoy passing through the park amused many of the smaller marmots and almost made up for the total lack of after-hours entertainment for which the tourists, bone-tired after long treks into the jasperiffic hinterlands, thirst.

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A tourist in Jasper recently smeared honey on her child in a mis-guided attempt to attract bears.

From out of Canada?

They’re awaiting the DNA results. Kind of messy.

by gnostic3 January 29, 2022