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Every day millions of people throughout the world constantly seek validation for their varying efforts. A staggering majority of the time this is ultimately met with almost expected disappointment. I am no exception to this type of human action popularity contest, as I’m also on the lookout for my ingenuity to be rewarded. However at the bequest of the co-originator I refreshed a look at Urbandictionary.com to check the status on my submission from 8/14.

Lo and behold, in all it’s splendor and glory: today’s validation

Honestly, I was ecstatic. It’s not every day you simply make up a word, make up a definition and after nearly 2 months of “Under Review” it finally gets established as a valid entry on the premier slang site for this generation and probably several following it.

So if you haven’t already, get your ass over there and thumbs up that shit like you were hitchhiking to save your life, or Roger Ebert on his favorite flick, or doing your best Buddy Christ impersonation.

This week’s installment of Awesome Advice is quite timely. Last night I found myself analyzing incoming traffic to this website and I noticed something quite out of place. I was getting traffic from profile.myspace.com/blahblassafsfaslshaas anyways it doesn’t matter. I don’t have any hosted images posted on myspace anywhere.  While my bandwidth isn’t quite on a budget I still try and avoid posting images from this domain so I can save it for actual site visitors. I use photobucket for everything web related that requires a witty image or a helpful diagram. So I followed the link to the culprit and had a wonderful idea.

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riitard™

rii•tard [ree-tahrd]
-noun

• A hybrid acronym-compound consisting of “R.I.I.” and “tard“
  1. Random Internet Individual
  2. tard

• A general classification of unknown internet users
  1. anonymous users of the world wide web
  2. internet persons of unknown origin or purpose

Pass it on, I want to see this mainstream by the holiday season. Someone should submit it to urbandictionary.com, and I’ll take care of submitting it to Webster.