Word: lames
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRING: EPILOGUE] Daryl Hall dismisses John Oates; records a lame solo album, Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine...
...route to the bowling alley, I felt slightly relieved. Things didn't seem as though they'd changed at all. We reached our destination and parked the car. The idea was to meet our two other friends inside and bowl until management kicked us out. Admittedly, these were pretty lame plans, especially for a Friday night. But for those of us living in small-town suburbia, this is as exciting as things...
...south, crank has decimated the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, populated by descendants of the warriors who routed Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. "Crank will do to the reservations what Custer couldn't," says Bonnie Pipe, clinical director of a tribal recovery center in the town of Lame Deer. When James Walksalong, chairman of the local school board, brought in a team of drug-sniffing dogs last year, kids climbed out of classroom windows, and by the end of the day the dogs had detected 30 instances of drug residue. On reservations throughout Montana and Wyoming, the drug...
Computers! Microscopes! The X franchise is the true revenge of the nerds. Just look at Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny). Despite their stylish wardrobe in the film--they're costumed by the woman who used to dress Madonna--they're lame: they don't have sex (with each other or, it seems, anyone else). They work all the time. They believe in extraterrestrials. In real life, Mulder and Scully would be weirdos--bookish types with bad skin whom you avoid in the hallways...
...believes the show's UST, or unresolved sexual tension, is the key to its vitality), I have also flamed "shippers" ("relationshippers," those who want Mulder and Scully to get it on in the film) with now embarrassing vituperations, such as, "Why don't you just go get the lame job you're destined for at the state budget office?" In X-land, it is a terrible insult to imply that someone works for the government. I have no proof, but I'm sure I've communed with right-wing militia members over Files arcana...