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(idea) by stash (3.7 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Jul 03 2001 at 19:46:23

Jake, v. (recent drug slang)

To try for one last hit of marijuana from a smoking apparatus despite the bowl's empty appearance, thereby risking a THC-free lungful of butane and ash.

I think this bowl is cashed; do you want to jake it? Odenberg.

Pot Jargon Metanode, Drug Slang Metanode

(idea) by beldin (4.8 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Jul 24 2001 at 22:34:19

A Jake can also be a particular sort of Discordian prank by conspiracy. The conspirators all send the victim all manner of weird shit in the mail, such that it all arrives on the same day. In Kerry Thornley's introduction to the Illuminet editon of the Principia Discordia, a Jake is described as follows:

Our outreach is called aneristic abnormail and is defined by Ol' Sam as "weird things sent in fun to those still trapped in the Region of Thud" - squares, that is. When some order-bound heathen makes an especially unenlightened public remark, that unsuspecting dolt is likely to receive a Jake - a whole mail box full of weird shit from Discordians everywhere all on the same day. "For maximum benefit," says Ol' Sam, "a good Jake should be in response to a particularly gross manifestation of the Aneristic Delusion, not merely intended to chastise, but to teach and amuse as well (or else make them hopping mad). The best Jakes involve a lot of Discordians, all conspiring to contact the subject on Jake Day - a shining example of Discordian accord, as paradoxical as that sounds." (If you think that sounds paradoxical, wait until you hear about the Discordian accordian.)

(thing) by paradawks (4.9 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Dec 18 2001 at 20:53:47

Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment - an online, open source (and open data) database which attempts to store information about where journals and periodicals are indexed and stored in fulltext. jake also has rudimentary functionality for linking directly to fulltext of articles when supplied with the appropriate bibliographic information.

Originally started by Dan Chudnov at Yale, it has since become its own entity and adopted by others. Key jake sites are now located at SFU library and Openly Informatics.


(fiction) by badme (19.7 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu May 17 2007 at 15:16:03

So there's this boy, right. Name's Jake. Names's not important. He's eight-year old. Has a freckle on the inside of his left ear. Not really sure how he got it. Pretty good at school; not genius level, not an Einstein or a Newton or whatever. Kind of loud, once you get to know him and all. My name's Steve. Name's not important.

So this boy, right, he's my boy. I've been with him through the whole thing, from the Aaah-Ohh-Yeah-giveittomehoney to the oh get this thing OUT of me to the Christening and the first Tooth Fairy visit and all the rest. So when you ask me, do I know him, of course I do. Been there all the time for him. Never let that kid down, not once.

So one day the principal calls and she says my boy's not doing so hot in school no more. Says he's been getting C's in Social Studies. Social Studies. 75% on a Math test the other day, completely forgot what a Greatest-Common-Factor was. And she says, would you show up for a parent teacher conference, and of course I'll show up, yes ma'am. Kid's gotta get some sense talked into him.

Was kind of worried the kid'd start crying when I scolded him. Back in my day, my dad used to call my little child-rebellions 'The Bad-Boy Blues'. And he'd put on a cute little song-and-dance number for me whenever I acted up. Something about how sad the Bad Boys were, how they didn't have friends, because the Bad Boys were mean. And soon I was laughing and feeling silly. I didn't want to be one of those no-friend Bad Boys. Of course not. Why would I? That didn't sound fun. So when my son was getting with the cherry face and the huff-huffs and the scrunchy nose and the wah-wahs, I did the song-and-dance. Didn't remember all of it, no, of course not. I did 'improvise' as they say. Don't think I did it right, though, because my boy just kept with the crying. Still don't rightly know how I messed that one up, 'tho.

And this one time, let me tell you, I caught my boy playing with his sister's dolls. Was setting up a tea party. His toy soldiers on one side, regular old Barbies on the other, at this pink plastic rectangular tea-table. Girly purple little chairs for the soldiers, too. Quite a strange little sight if you can imagine. And worryin' he might be what you call 'strange', I walked in and gave him a stern old talking-to. Told him he wasn't to play with Barbies and have tea parties anymore. Told him calmly, of course. Told him I wouldn't tell anyone about this, of course not. He understood but was kind of sad. I could tell. So of course I had to cheer him up so I took him on a trip to Toys R' Us to get the new robot toy I saw on TV the other day. Turns into a truck, it does. Pretty clever. And of course his face lit up when he saw the box, and there's not much else in this world better than seeing your kid's face light up because of something you did for them, you know?

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