Wednesday - May 04, 2005
McCow (n.)
A distant relative of the common or domestic cow
that has been genetically engineered to survive in harsh tropical climates, and
is the source of the ‘meat’ content in McDonald's
hamburgers.*
Wednesday - May 04, 2005
Desertification (n.)
What happens when you cut down a large area of
perfectly healthy tropical rainforest with the intention of growing crops,
building houses, grazing McCows, etc. only to find that once the trees are gone,
the whole place turns to dust and sand and blows away.
Wednesday - May 04, 2005
Dessertification (n.)
The peculiarly British practice of taking a
perfectly respectable dish, such as a nice bit of pork or ham, and completely
ruining it by the addition of some random soft and usually exotic soft fruit,
such as pineapple, papaya or mango.
Wednesday - May 04, 2005
Forest envy (n.)
The feeling that is being expressed when rich
industrialised nations demand that poorer, less economically advanced countries
stop cutting down all their forests on the grounds that those are pretty much
the only ones left on the planet now that all the rich nations have already cut
down theirs (which is, to a large extent, the reason that they became rich in
the first place).
Sunday - May 01, 2005
Wyren (n.)
A wyren is a bird that is found mostly in urban
or built up areas that has learned to imitate the sound of a warbling car
alarm.
Sunday - May 01, 2005
Wingtone (n.)
Any bird that has learned to imitate the sound of
a ringing phone.
Sunday - May 01, 2005
Nokia bird (n.)
An extremely rare and now practically extinct
South American mina bird whose mating call resembles the ring tone of a Nokia
mobile phone.
Friday - April 29, 2005
Minification (n.)
The sudden and unexpected realisation that you're
actually smaller than you had previously thought.
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