A fork of Rural Dictionary
A noun describing a childishly coloured, rectangular sheet of any textile with flamable properties. Most commonly used worldwide as a make-shift bonfire during street celebrations.
"I used to burn dollar bills until I realised that it actually deflated the currency. Now I burn American flags, as long as they are made in China of course."
Any consumer in a market dominated by big business, where the power and control exerted by those companies provides a less than optimal environment for the ability of the consumer to utilise the product or technology.
A consumer purchasing a laptop computer with a region restricted DVD drive and no DOS or linux driver support would be a connedsumer. Likewise would be someone searching for FTP server software which, although being decades old technology, is still sold by software firms and contains less functionality than one downloaded for free from sourceforge.
Software connedsumers are increasingly finding that illegal cracks of commercial software, or open source software, is the only choice for hassle free operation without compatability problems and proprietary hinderances.
Country determined by God himself to have a right to play in the world cup (despite finishing a measley fifth in their zone), and that no-one in the Oceanic zone should ever be allowed to play even if they never lose a match.
Uruguay is thusly famous for it's unique concept of sportsmanship and fairness, and also how well they handle being losers.
Joe Dingbat: Yay! Australia finished top of their zone without ever losing a single match! We're going to the world cup!
Rodney Sensible: Hold on there Joe, Australia will be the only country top of a zone to actually have to play a play-off to secure thier place. Uruguay finished fifth in their zone so we'd have to play them, and God said they deserve to go to the world cup and it's unfair for them, so I guess you're not allowed to compete.
Joe Dingbat: Oh, of course. How selfish of me.
A slang, derrogatory term for the Windows XP operating system, or simply a way of avoiding lameness in using the official name.
Similar to the terms Windoze, wan2k and Linsux.
Frantic: Jeff, how do I get mouse acceleration working in XPee like it did in wan2k?
Jeff: I dunno, they keep hiding things in each version.
Results of a google search cooincidentally producing a large amount of links to pornographic sites.
Since I was heading to Prague for a holiday, I decided to do a little research. Unfortunately, a search on google for "Czech webcams" produced far too many resluts.
Wan2k is derived from the common abbreviation of the "Windows 2000" operationg system, "win2k".
The humour centres around the word being similar to "wank", to masturbate.
John: I can't get sound to work in Frontier.
Fred: what operating system are you using?
John: wan2k :-/
Phrase, to "crack a fat", to get an erection.
Possibly related to the British phrase to "crack one off", to masturbate successfully.
"Crack a fat" is commonly used in Australia.
The teacher wanted me to solve the equation on the blackboard, but I'd cracked a fat (being 15 and all) and was afraid to stand up.