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November 20th, YDAU - Meeting Transcript
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Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
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matteing
(Also matting. In film (or photography), this means combining multiple images into one final image, i.e., compositing.
verbatim
i.e., word for word (written or spoken), from the Latin
Mountain comes to Mohammed
A good explanation can be found here.
Kruger Abstraction Scale
There's apparently no such thing.
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Advertable
best guess is this is a neologism combining "advertisement" and "avertable"
82 Share
This is a term from the Nielsen television ratings. Share is the percentage of the total number of television in use that are tuned to a particular program
Bupkus
Yiddish: nothing
pro-bonoing
providing free of charge
their own exc―
Tine Jr. surely seems about to say "excrement."
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shit-can
get rid of
Dregs
dirty remainders
"...a mule, a burro..."
A mule is a hybrid between a horse and a donkey (ass). A burro is just another name for a donkey.
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Garfield
Garfield is a cat from a daily-syndicated comic strip of the same name. (Wikipedia) See right »
McGruff
McGruff the Crime Dog is an anthropomorphic cartoon bloodhound created for the National Crime Prevention Council for use by American police in building crime awareness among children. (Wikipedia)
Toucan Sam
Toucan Sam is the avian mascot of Froot Loops cereal. The character is a blue cartoon toucan with a striped beak. (Wikipedia)
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Pillsbury Doughboy
"The Pillsbury Doughboy" is a small anthropoid character apparently made out of dough. (Wikipedia)
terrazzo
a type of mosaic made of broken stone
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direly
urgently; desperately
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