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reference to USC football coach John Robinson's enormous breasts |
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| D-Town |
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Detroit affiliate |
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| Dallas Crackwagon |
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Dallas Cowboy football team, for excessive and consistent crack use. |
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| Dark Gable |
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Legendary faxer/emailer. Name came from a fax he sent in requesting Rome to choose a gloss for him from 5 choices. Ergo the name. |
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| Day After (the) |
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William of San Diego. a caller noted [for his destructive ""blasts"" and a 1980s post-nuclear apocalypse TV movie] |
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| Deal with it! |
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(interjection) expression denoting lack of sympathy or empathy. |
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| Death Pool |
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A list of athletes who appear headed for certain serious injury. Original pick was NFL quarterback Chris Miller for frequent concussions suffered on the playing field. |
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| Deathstick (the) |
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Shawn Bradley; see also 'Missionary Impossible; [by perceived physical resemblance to a golf club (see previous), influenced by Bradley's supposed poor play] |
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| Dennis 'Oilscab' Boyd |
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Dennis Oilcan Boyd; see 'Oilscab' |
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| Desert Scrub |
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Arizonan, or Arizona Wildcat [from the Wildcats calling their defense desert storm] |
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| Detoxana Baiul |
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ice skater Oksana Baiul, who crashed her car into a tree while intoxicated |
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| Dick (the) |
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Hideki Irabu, Japanese pitcher drafted by the San Diego Padres who demanded to play for only the Yankees |
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| Diesel |
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Shaquille O'Neal |
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| Dionne Ewing |
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Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks, for having 'manhole cover' like nasal passages similar to Dionne Warwick. |
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| Diques |
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NHL team the Colorado Avalanche, formerly the Quebec Nordiques (pronounce deek, not deeks) |
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| Dirt Farm |
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(n.) - The homestead of San Diego Charger Steve Hendrickson [so called by Hendrickson's inability to grow anything there] |
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| Do not concur |
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(interjection) 'Nay!' [established, with subject omission]. Do not agree. |
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| Dog on a Stick |
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see 'Hot Dog on a Stick' |
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| dome |
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your head |
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| domed |
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to get hit in the head by an object such as a baseball |
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| Domer |
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Notre Dame student, rooter [from the Golden Dome at South Bend] |
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| Donkey |
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In reference to Houston's program director that made an ASS out of himself attempting to eliminate the last hour of the Jim Rome Show. Needless to say this monkey got banged. Props to H-town clones for getting the monkey to rescind. |
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| Donks/cheatin Donks |
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Denver Broncos |
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| Drone |
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Clone in training |
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| drops |
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The doling out of those that have screwed up big; i.e. dropping the ball on something. The opposite of props. |
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| drug test |
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Sound drop formerly used on the show. An inquiry into one's state of mental health [a sarcastic assessment of an individual's sobreity. |
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| ducat |
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(n.) - ticket [established slang] |
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| Duck |
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Los Angeles Raider; see also 'Raiduh' [from Pepper Johnson's description of the Raiders 'They're just a bunch of Ducks!'; influenced by Howie 'Howard the Duck' Long] |
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| Dude |
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Mike Piazza, see also 'strongest man in SoCal' [though now in NY] |
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| Dull Harris |
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Del Harris, former coach of Los Angeles Lakers now Asst. coach for Dallas Mavericks. [Peter Vecsey's title in reference to his perception of Harris' personality, or lack thereof] |
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| Dweller |
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Jungle Dweller, or clone |
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| E.T. Cassell |
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NBA player Sam Cassell for his supposed...no, obvious resemblance to film star E.T. |
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| Ed |
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John Elway; see 'Mr. Ed' [for Elway's supposed equine resemblance] |
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| Edmond Howard |
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NFL football player Desmond Howard, for appearing to have more teeth than the average person. |
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| Edna |
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Nancy Kerrigan [a feminine form of Ed, and thus a reference to Kerrigan's perceived equine resemblance via 'Mr. Ed', particularly by virtue of her teeth. |
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| eeeeerrrrr! |
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(interjection) correction on the fly. Verbal acknowledgement of incorrect word choice while in the moment. |
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| eject |
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a means of aborting a weak take before being run during a phone call. |
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| Eldrick |
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Golfer Tiger Woods. Eldrick being his real first name, apparently in reference to him taking a break from the PGA tour because he was tired.
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| Eli |
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Tim Wallach |
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| Elvis Grabec |
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Elvis Grbac, NFL quarterback, name mispronounced by Reggie White. |
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| Enrico Gonzalez |
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Shaquille O'Neal for his alias on a rap demo tape for a LA radio station. See 'Crack Fu', 'Hack Fu', 'Clank Fu', etc. |
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| epic |
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(adj.) excellent [established] |
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| Escort Service (the) |
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the Los Angeles Kings defensemen [for the Kings' supposedly porous defense, i.e., supposed tendency to escort its opponents to the net, and also its supporting role in protecting superstar Wayne Gretzky] |
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| Eye Gouger |
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Nebraskan, Cornhusker; see also 'Bugeater' [from Kansas State quarterback Chad May's account of his eye being gouged during a game against Nebraska on Oct. 15, 1994] |
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| Fabio |
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Eric Karros [from his supposedly attractive appearance and 1994 weightlifting; Fabio is a brawny, male model] |
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| Facelift |
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Otis Nixon, former baseball player, for his hideous grill, as in Rome saying 'why don't you mix in a facelift now and then?' |
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| Farenheit 451 |
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John Franco, Mets reliever who comes in during 'firefighter' situations only to torch the place, from book of same name, see also Gas Can, Backdraft. |
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| Fat Antonio |
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San Antonio affiliate, for being named as having the most overweight citizens in the nation in a survey. |
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| Fat Farm (the) |
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Angeles Clippers [from the many overweight Clippers of the late '90
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| Fat Gilbert |
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Green Bay Packer player Gilbert Brown, for his resemblence to Fat Albert. |
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| Fatass Combovers with Fur Glued on the Face |
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Clones trying to emulate the host who grow goatees thinking that it makes them cool like Rome. |
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| Fax Nazi (the) |
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Jeff Biggs; see also 'Biggsy' [for his role in rejecting entries in the Huge Fax of the Day contest (q.v.). |
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| Fax of the Day (the Huge) |
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(noun) Rome's reading of the most incisive and biting fax to his radio show [established]. Forerunner of present day email contest. |
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| First Ballot |
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Vince Coleman (Coleman said he's a sure bet to get in the Hall of Fame on the first ballot). |
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| Fish |
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(proper noun, singular, and plural) Miami Dolphin [well established]
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| fishhack |
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(n.) - poor print journalist [combination of fishwrap (q.v.) and hack (q.v.); affected by Fish (q.v.), and Miami writers' perceived bitterness toward San Diego in the wake of the Dolphins' 1995 playoff loss to the Chargers |
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| fishwrap |
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A newspaper. see 'multicolored fishwrap' [well established] |
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| Flamian |
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A horrible caller named Fabian barely got on the air and flamed out (hung up abruptly). Later callers dubbed him Flamian. Now used as a generic way to refer to someone who does a bad short call 'a Flamian' or to end a call when its going badly 'I'm Flamian!' |
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| Frank Lee |
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Frank Gifford (Rome gives him his wife's last name) |
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| Fred Astaire |
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Former NFL quarterback Jim Everett (see Chris Everett) for having 'happy feet' or dancing in the pocket to avoid contact |
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| Frenchies |
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Former baseball managers and brothers Marcel & Renee Lachemann, rumored to have opened a bakery after getting fired in the same year. |
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| Fresh Prince |
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NBA player Robert Horry due to his resemblance to actor Will Smith |
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| Fresneck |
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Fresno, CA affiliate |
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