| Magrent -
OS noun; (pronounced like 'vagrant'
and derived from an instance where someone misspkoke
that word); a dirty, sloppy or disheveled individual; e.g.
"Almost everyone in America was a magrent in the 70s." Also,
magrenty - adjective;
e.g. "Look at me, I'm all magrenty."
Paste Job - MP noun;
see 'Eat Paste'
Populacho
- KY noun; a mere borrowing from Spanish, populacho
means "rabble" or "mob." This refers to what Borzou
once called " your avergage everyday two-bit nothings"
Puern
- OS noun; slang for pornography. Created by
'Spanishizing' the word "porn." Sometimes the "p"
is left off and thus the word becomes 'Uern' (pronounced
like "weyrn")
Ramp Out (to)
- KY verb (also 'to
ramp'); to go out on the town. This is a variation
of the noun phrase "ramp night" which refers to an evening
of going out on the town. The terms were coined by
Big'Un and derived from when Jeff and Mike lived in Kentucky
below an loft that contained a half pipe for skate
boarders and BMX riders. Due to the noise levels,
we had to get the owner of the half pipe to agree that the
activities could take place only on certain evenings (i.e.
designated 'ramp nights') and only until a certain time.
Selling -
OS gerund; the act of making and selling fake raffle
tickets door-to door (a money making scheme from the early
80s — see also dineros.
We used to sell these tickets to people in Albany, and then
keep their phone numbers in so we could prank call them
later down the road. Ahh to be thirteen again!
Tope -
KY noun & adjective; devived from
the word "Fruitopia" (Coca-Cola's failed new age beverage
developed in answer to Snapple and Arizona Iced
Tea), tope is an aesthetic
which was created largely by Benetton ("United Colors")
and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Dominant in the early
and mid-90's, tope is basically imagery and color schemes
that reflect multiculturalism and neo-tribalism, usually
as part of sales message.
Whether based on actual historical imagery, or invented
right at the ad agency, tope imagery connotes such things
as "Mexican-ness", "African-ness," and any other "ethnic-ness."
It is somewhat difficult to peg down with words alone and
is best delineated by example. When Star
Trek: The Next Generation or (especially) the Voyager series
"Chinese up" some actor and dress him/her in some multi-colored
getup as a convenient way to create a new alien race, that's
tope. A nice example is this "Ancient
Grains" cereal package.
White Gold
- KY nound phrase; also known as pink
normals, white gold is the cream of the crop of white-bred
America. This species generally lacks the ability
of critical thought. Jeff once defined this term as
"white trash that has been polished with sports culture."
Tribes of white gold run rampant in the Midwest but are
also found in just about every suburb in America.
A Midwest white gold stronghold is Cincinnati, while
Boston is the white gold capital of the Northeast.
I don't know enough about the West Coast to name a stronghold,
but I would guess places like Santa Barbara. (click to view
photos of white gold)
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