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I found out what ghettofabulous means from this online teen dictionary!

This dictionary isn’t so you can try to talk like someone you’re not. But it is a good reference for those who are seeking to understand a piece of youth culture today. These words are used differently by various teens around the world. Some of these words may have different meaning for teens in one area than another. But overall, this list contains words actively used by mainstream teens today. You will not find many “old school” or outdated terms such as “bad” or “radical.”

Oh yeah
ghetto-fabulous
1. Adj. describing something good. Living the good life like a gangsta. “Did you see that e-class? Ghetto-fabulous!”
Now I have to look up e-class.

These commercials bring back memories. Speaking of the 80s, whenever I turn on the show I Love the 80s I cannot turn it off no matter what. That show is more addictive than crack. What other show could remind me of Hungry Hungry Hippos?
(via Pop Culture Junk Mail)

From Popular Science:

So Tim Eckel, a self-employed systems analyst, devised a compromise. He loaded an aging PC with MAME, a program that emulates old hardware so it can run more than 2,700 arcade games, and mounted it in a real game cabinet rescued from the junkyard. Replacing the picture tube with a used monitor and wiring controllers to a keyboard, he squeezed the entire arcade of his youth into one fairly inexpensive box.

More about home arcades here.
(via Tom McMahon)

Another hotornot clone where you can choose ghetto or ghettofabulous. I will be honest. I have no idea what ghettofabulous means. Absolutely none.

Complete with a badjocks scoreboard.

More at coincutter.com

(via Sciatica)

If you like old time radio dramas you will love this site.

Sherlock Holmes stories have been a part of radio programming since 1930. There are some 600 broadcasts listed on this site, and the list is by no means complete, as we have not yet included non-English adaptations.

Game after endless game, the biggest braying blowhard in baseball blathers on and on. The fact that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about 99% of the time doesn’t deter him. He’ll go on and on about some minute point that nobody cares about hour after hour. He’ll miss important plays while lecturing long-suffering listeners on the importance of the position of a pitcher’s ring finger. Many times he’ll even bring it up during the next game (even several more games!)

(via J-Walk)

From NYTimes (fake registration required)

This summer, Mr. Tolmé, a civil engineer from New Hampshire, is golfing across Mongolia. Treating this enormous Central Asian nation as his private course, he has divided Mongolia into 18 holes. The total fairway distance is 2,322,000 yards. Par is 11,880 strokes.