January 2011
20 posts
Eating your own dog food →
Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is when a company uses the products that it makes. The idea behind “eating your own dog food” is that if you expect customers to buy your products, you should also be willing to use them.
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Post-coital tristesse →
Sexual intercourse can sometimes lead to a feeling of melancholy called PCT, or post-coital tristesse. This is more common in men than in women.
A better-known reference is the Latin phrase Post coitum omne animal triste est —”After sexual intercourse every animal is sad”.
Edward Mordrake →
“He supposedly had an extra face on the back of his head, which could neither eat nor speak, although it could laugh or cry.”
Honorific nicknames in popular music →
Semantic satiation →
Semantic satiation is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. For example, say: “smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile….”.
Flaming Doctor Pepper →
The Flaming Doctor Pepper is a flaming cocktail said to taste like the soft drink Dr Pepper, although it is not one of the ingredients.
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Beer goggles →
“Beer goggles”, “Cider Visor” and “Stella vision” are slang terms for a phenomenon in which consumption of alcohol lowers sexual inhibitions to the point that very little or no discretion is used when approaching or choosing sexual partners.
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List of films considered the worst →
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Urban legends about illegal drugs →
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Responses to sneezing →
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Words coined in the 1990s →
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Sexual frustration →
Sexual frustration describes the condition in which a person is in a state of agitation, stress or anxiety due to prolonged sexual inactivity and/or sexual dissatisfaction that leads him or her to want more sex or better sex.
It is claimed by some that a person who is sexually frustrated sends off “signals” in their personality, consciously or subconsciously, arising from their...
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English internet slang →
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Weltschmerz →
Weltschmerz (from the German, meaning world-pain or world-weariness) is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind.
The modern meaning of Weltschmerz in the German language is the psychological pain caused by sadness that can occur when realizing that...
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International Kit Kat flavors →
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Bacon mania →
Bacon mania refers to passionate bacon enthusiasm in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Bacon appears most frequently alongside eggs and other breakfast foods, but has also been adapted into products including bacon bubble gum, bacon band-aids, sizzling bacon flavored rolling papers, and bacon air freshener. The growing popularity of bacon has also encouraged product introductions...