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- Reagan, Ronald
- 1. one whose fateful election to US Presidency detoured what might have been a successful and appropriate career as the recurring bad guy on The Muppet Show.
- 2. one whose horrible, intellectually debilitating disease turned out to be the nicest thing anyone could think to say about him.
- Reaganomics
- a national economic policy wherein the rich are given incentives to make more money and to urinate on the poor, this was meant to produce the secondary effect called trickle down; syn voodoo economics.
see also Ronald Reagan. - real estate
- 1. a business estate; as opposed to the imaginary kinds of estates which artists hold.
- 2. land owned by banks and inhabited by dreamers.
- 3. a language of 2,000 words—chosen at random from French, Latin and Middle English—which is as absent of rules and logic as it is controlled by the few who speak it; pidgin phrases understood by laymen include “Sign here” and “Initials please.”
- reality television
- 1. the most outright contradiction in terms to be introduced to America’s vocabulary since the government started its “War is Peace” campaign via Fox News.
- 2. non-actors acting out parts unwritten by non-writers; professional amateurism.
- 3. what can make it to the airwaves when everyone at a television network except the marketing department goes on vacation at the same time.
- 4. video surveillance equal in cost and entertainment value to the playback from a convenience store camera, but for a severe drawback on the television version, that being the insertion of vomitus dialog.
- rebel
- 1. a pretender to the throne of non-conformity; one who smokes.
- 2. a quasi-militant activist whose apparent passion rarely to occasionally gets him laid.
- 3. a rock musician or junkie who is destined either for commercial failure or to becoming a Republican; an opportunistic low-life who will continue to bum cigarettes into and beyond the point of multi-billion dollar wealth; a fuckwad.
- rebuff
- to make shiny again; to shine.
- rebuke
- a siren’s beckoning song.
see also no. - recession
- 1. a depression with half the media coverage, and only ten percent of the successful suicides as an actual depression; Depression Lite!â„¢
- 2. a temporary regression, or near miss; the act of typing the name of oneÂ’s ex into a search engine, without then pressing <return>.
- 3. getting beaten up badly on a school playground after having already graduated from the school in question.
- reconciliation
- 1. now go home and get your fucking shine box.
- 2. the act of reconciling; restoration of friendship often through admission of fault or willingness to compromise.