Country Dictionary

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4'33''

A musical work composed by American experimental composer John Cage in 1952. Made up of 3 movements, it is comprised solely of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence. However in performance, the work is supposed to capture unintentional sounds such as audience whispers, coughs etc. It challenges the very definition of music. Pretentious people claim to like it.

Art student: John Cage's 4'33'' is so compelling and thought provoking. It makes those students at the conservatorium look like a bunch of show-offs. They just don't appreciate the sound of silence. Sane man: You're a twat.

by HumphreyB May 08, 2006

detrain

A newspeak-esque term QRail train conductors use to describe the act of getting off a train.

Train conductor: Passengers for the Ipswich, Beenleigh and Gold Coast lines, please detrain at Central. Make sure you collect all of your belongings before detraining. Thank you. Passenger: WTF!?!?

by HumphreyB April 19, 2006

detrain

A newspeak-esque term QRail train conductors use to describe the act of getting off a train.

Train conductor: Passengers for the Ipswich, Beenleigh and Gold Coast lines, please detrain at Central. Make sure you collect all of your belongings before detraining. Thank you. Passenger: WTF!?!?

by HumphreyB May 02, 2006

Prolog

A trippy 70's computer programming language that uses recursion like a motherfucker. It is a logical programming language designed for expressing human logic instead of specific machine instructions. Unlike procedural languages such as C, it has very little practical use outside of a university environment.

Uni student #1: Holy shit. Recursively manipulating lists in Prolog is totally screwing with my head! Btw, why the fuck is my program stuck in a loop? Uni student #2: You've got to create a base case for your predicate. Otherwise it just backtracks up the list and down again. Uni student #1: Thanks. Fuck. I don't know if I'm gonna pass this course. Uni student #2: Don't worry. It's not as if this shit is useful anyway.

by HumphreyB May 03, 2006

E minor

A musical key that guitarists know all too well.

Musician: Instead of playing this song in E minor, can you play it in G minor? Guitarist: What?

by HumphreyB May 03, 2006

guitar solo

An extension of a guitarists' cock.

Guitarist: Hey man listen to this guitar solo! Sane man: Gee, I really didn't wanna hear that.

by HumphreyB May 03, 2006

Beethoven

Arguably the greatest composer of all time. Also the name of a shitty movie.

Music lover: Hey Beethoven's pretty cool. Movie buff: You sicken me.

by HumphreyB May 03, 2006