Karaoke Cupid

When Karaoke Cupid strikes, it generally means that a person has fallen in love with either karaoke, singing karaoke, or dancing and singing during karaoke. Also implied is that it is a surprise to the person who has been struck by Karaoke Cupid's unerring arrow.

DLG

Downstairs Lab Guy.

Sarcastic and loves to give me a hard time. Whistles a lot, often just the first 4 bars of a song. Usually "I can see clearly now the rain is gone." Over and over. Took him a year to remember my name and stop calling me "hey girl."

Also, my roommate's dad.

TSWG

Thérèse Stalking Working Group.

This is a 'high society' group of engineers devoted to stalking me. They meet online and write white papers while smoking cigars and sipping burbon.

TSWG are 'high society' stalkers and are more sophisticated. While normal stalkers are unaware that they are strange, annoying, and pathetic creatures, we at least know that we are desperate, strange, and slightly abnormal. Thus, if you were to attend a meeting, we would instantly assume you were madly in love with us all, while at the same time knowing that it probably wasn't true. In fact, your very presence would be living proof that 2 + 2 is actually 5, for very large values of two. This would cast the whole charter of the STWG into doubt and cause the destruction of the universe as we know it. In short, if you were to attend our meetings personally, you would have to perform sexual favors in exchange for destroying the universe. However, if you are unable and unwilling to attend, you may consider sending some photo's of your feet in lieu of your actual self.

- Mike Dufel, TWSG president

Coined by Dufel, here (scroll down).

The Five

Whenever I'm talking about "one of the five," or "the five" or any derivative thereof, I am talking about the Five Fashion Capitals of the world:

New York City, Paris, London, Tokyo and Milan.

It is my life goal to fall in love with (and obviously purchase) a really, really, really beautiful pair of shoes in each of these cities. Oh, and to visit them too.

GBB

Gross Baby Bird. This has taken a life all of its own now. We first met GBB here, and GBB replied.

Now, GBB is from Britain, clever, mean to me and fascinated with me all at the same time. For a while GBB wanted to marry me off (see comment #6).

GBB comments regularly on the origin of shoeism. It's a mystery why since GBB appears to hate me.

SDC

Secret Dream Career.

This is my secret dream career, all. Very, very.

WWKPB2

WWKPB2 - Second Weirdo Who Keeps Passing By

There's another one. Who has a lot of keys.

WWKPB

WWKPB - Weirdo Who Keeps Passing By

Ew. This guy annoys me with his sheer presence. Yikes.

GOMFDAWF

GOMFDAWF - Guy Of My Freakin Dreams And Wildest Fantasies

Ahem. This is a pretty much self-explanatory nickname.

AAFRHG

AAFRHG - Approachable And Friendly Resident Helpful Guy

Resident Nice Guy, this one. His office is next door to mine, and he gets a bazillion visitors daily, so I have a sign that has taken up permanent residence in my window that says "I have no idea where AAFRHG is. Don't ask me." I like this guy loads, it's the visitors that bite.

AAWWM

AAWWM - Annoying Acquaintance Who Wants More

Gah, this guy annoys me. He's... actually, I think I'm just going to link to explain it properly.

HWMNBN

HWMNBN - He Who Must Not Be Named

He must not be named for one main reason, and that is, so that I can talk about him. If you've been paying attention to everything I've ever said about him, the fact that I keep a scoreboard (he's currently in the lead the bastard), and other peoples' comments regarding him, you'll be in a pretty good place to guess who he is.

Yes, yes, fine, I stole the abbreviation (it is not an acronym unless its letter spell a word) from JK Rowling's Harry Potter. I really don't think she'll mind, since my slice of internet is like... thisbig.