A fork of Rural Dictionary
Fear of Jersey barriers and construction barriers. Its primary symptom is a tendency to drive slowly and/or hug the opposite side of a lane where such barriers are present.
Although the shoulder work didn't actually block traffic, things were still slow from a few drivers getting barriernoia.
A dirty chunk of snow and ice that builds up inside a car fender in the winter (and eventually falls off). Also known as a car booger or a slurd.
I wish they'd fix that road; it gets so many potholes after a thaw that it knocks all the clunkers off everyone's cars.
An old-fashioned 5.25-inch floppy disk, commonly used in early personal computers (such as Apple IIs and IBM PCs). So nicknamed because, unlike 3.5-inch floppies, they are flexible enough to bend when waved (that is, they flop around).
I should put a 5.25" drive in my old computer and see if there are any DOS games I want from the old floppy floppies. Circa 1990: Person A: "Can I borrow a floppy disk?" Person B: "Hard floppy or floppy floppy?"
Fear of traffic cones. Its primary symptom is a tendency to drive more slowly than necessary where such cones are used on a roadway.
No lanes were actually blocked by the utility work, but traffic was still slow due to a few drivers' conaphobia.
"Degrees"; the "degree" sign. Commonly used in temperatures, angles, and geographical coordinates, it can typed on a PC by hitting Alt-0176 (using the numeric keypad), and its HTML code is °. I wouldn't be surprised if someone's used it in a job advertisement before.
It was 92°F (33°C) outside today. There are 360° in a circle. Hlp wntd, PT/FT, $8-12/hr, no ° req.
An unknown but moderately large quantity.
Me: Grandpa, how many of them were there? Grandpa: *shrug* Sixty-eleven!
Percent; amount per hundred. A concept which many people are somewhat naive about. Also used in many computer codes for variables, or for encoding special characters in web addresses.
1% = 1/100 = 0.01 ; 100% = 1 Why do some coaches ask you to give it 110%, when 100% is (by definition) the most you can give? The code for a % sign in a web address is %25.