Adult Swim Terminology

[bassist]

So now that AS is established, I've noticed a few terms coming into use. On top of that, I've thought of some that just seem to roll off the tounge.

Sealab - verb - to take something old, cut it up and make it new.
"Did you see the episode of the Simpsons they totally sealabbed into a clip show?"
"My mom sealabbed an old quilt for my Harry Potter cape for Halloween."

Brak - noun - someone or something which is so innocent, it's amusing.
"My little sister asked me where babies come from. She's such a brak."
"My girlfriend was a total Brak when she asked me what I was doing when I [edited for content] to her [edited for content] and she [edited for content]."
(Also works as an adjective and adverb - "I thought he knew what was going on, but he went Brak." "You didn't know that? That's Brak!"

Anyone else heard any weird uses of AS related terms?

[DoubleNeg]

I yelled fignuts at work, after I hurt myself. :-X

But I think anyone who would say "Sealab"ed as opposed to the common "Jerry Rig" is just silly.

[Karl Olson]

McGuirked = Drunk, Tore Up

Example:
Bob was totally McGuirked last night. He threw up all over my sofa.

[bassist]

Jerry Rigged doesn't work like that. To Jerry Rig something, however it's spelled, is to make something work using parts that are only a temporary fix.

[Mynd Hed]

I've always heard it "jury rigged" but I could be wrong.

[saladdays]

No, it's Jerry Rigged (or. like bassist said, however you spell it).

[Supreme]

"Jerry rigged" isn't quite PC. It's an old war term, referring to Germans as "Jerrys" and saying that their methods of construction are shoddy. I think the "jury rigged" term came from people trying to stray away from the racial overtones of that term.

[saladdays]

Yeah, come to mention that, I think I have heard people say "jury rigged" instead of "jerry rigged." Although, if I say it, I usually say "jerry rigged" (but only in the presence of my good friends). :D

[FredNash]

there is also, of course, a MUCH less PC version of the term which I wont post here...

[FredNash]

Hmm, alittle browsing around came up with this:
JURY RIGGED

From Robert Williams: "I'd seen the phrase jerry rigged and assumed it was related to WWII and the efforts of German soldiers to keep things running by patching things together. However I've also seen it spelled jury rigged. Where does this expression come from?"

It's much older than World War Two. In the form jury rigged it's from the days of sailing ships and dates from the early 1600s, if not earlier. It refers to a mast which is makeshift or a temporary contrivance, perhaps because the original was lost or damaged in a storm. Nobody knows for sure where it comes from. It has been suggested that it's a shortening of "injury-rigged", though that sounds to me like something invented well after the event. Another suggestion often made is that it comes from the old French ajurie, "aid, assistance".

from here (http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-jur1.htm)

[EightOh]

Originally posted by FredNash
there is also, of course, a MUCH less PC version of the term which I wont post here... Indeed.

[sl4]

Wow, has this gotten off-topic or is it just me?

[DoubleNeg]

It's all Jerry's fault, and whatever he rigged. Comence the Jiggling!

[Supreme]

Carl: to rebuke in such a way as to show disdain
example:
Old guy - "You kids stop messin' around!"
Kid - "Dude, you don't have to go all carl on us! (aside)That guy has a major carl-on."

Eltingville: Of a non-status quo nature, often related to trends associated with intellectually-minded persons and/or trivia.
example:
"Those trekkies are MEGA Eltingville! They are like a super-set of Eltingvileness."