Due to how many episodes of the Pagan Centered Podcast there have been, many people may lose track of terminology we use on the show and how we use it. This is by no means applies to everyone, merely how we use certain terms which may or may not coincide with how the terms are used by other members of the Pagan Community

We often reference the following:

• Doctor Who

• Oh My Gods!

• Red vs. Blue
• Stargate SG-1

For information on various religious traditions we may mention, check out this MySpace forum thread.

 

 

Definitions

 

0118-999-881-999-119-725…3

Based off this skit from “The IT Crowd,” a British comedy program airing on Channel 4.

 

21-fold

A joke about someone who posted to Witchvox that the Earth was somehow angry and Pagans should return energy to the Earth or else karma would strike 21-fold… or something to that effect. Also a mockery of how Pagans tend to one-up each other on how many times Karma comes back at you. It started with 3, then it was 5..7..9..11..13.. pretty much every odd number up to 21. No one has seriously proclaimed Karma comes back at you more than 21 fold… yet. See the episode titled “Seriously… 21-fold” for details.

 

3228

Dave’s phone number in college.

 

Air, Elemental Of

A running joke that Dave must be an Air elemental due to umm… certain bodily functions Ironic since it is seen as the opposite element of what Dave really is, Earth. Unfortunately, this is not assisted by the fact Dave has served as the Air element in virtually all rituals he’s taken part in.

 

Altar Erectile Dysfunction

When you can’t get your Altar up (properly).

 

Austrian

Euphemism for Dave

 

Baby Bats

Young wanna-be goth-emo kids.

 

Barrett

A young bald-headed individual that was for the duration the crew of the podcast knew him was a sterotypical Gardnerian. He wore his robe and sandles everywhere, with nothing underneath. As a result he was curious as to why he was so cold in the winter and why people would give him weird looks at the local Wal-Mart. By Dave’s decree, all episodes of PCP must contain at least one Barrett reference. This decree was later amended to include either a Barrett reference or a reference to “The Bitch.” Attentive listeners will note not all episodes contain a Barrett reference however. Can you name those episodes? (See also: I’m Bleeding Profusely)

 

Bitch, The

Pseudonym for the one who has dated the majority of the male cast of the podcast.

 

Bitch Slap

Nickname for WPSH in Hazleton, based off how “Psh” sounds like a sound effect of a bitch slap.

 

Bobby

A former regular of the show, was forced to leave when he failed to meet financial obligations to one of the Podcasters. Rarely said much and was often jokingly referred to as being homosexual – which made things awkward for some when it turned out he really was gay.

 

Brady Box, The

The user interface that appears on Skype when more than 5 people are in a Skype conference.  The Skype interface looks like the boxed screens that characterize the intro to the classic TV show "The Brady Bunch."

 

Cathedral of Amber, First

A reference to how PCP Studio 5 originally had much echo until it was finished.  It echoed like a cathedral, and in the spirit of the Cult of Amber, PCP Studio 5 has the unofficial name of "First Cathedral of Amber."

 

Ceremonial Wine, Jason’s

Jason one day created Ceremonial Wine with one of the ingredients being his own blood. This is funny because he made it then couldn’t remember which bottle he put it in for a few minutes. Ashlee and Dave are now very careful about drinking wine offered by Jason.

 

Clarion Group

Known officially as Mystics Cove Pagan Network of Clarion University of Pennsylvania and later as the Clarion Area Pagan Association of Clarion University of Pennsylvania. This group was co-founded by Dave, later with Ashlee as Vice-President and eventually Amber taking over Ashlee’s duties when Ashlee left the group due to no one showing up to a community service event other than herself, Dave and Barrett despite several people signing up for the event.

 

Clark

Pseudonym for Ashlee

 

Creator of the Universe

Pseudonym for Amber (see Cult of Amber).

 

Cult of Amber

A mockery of how religions are created. It started with a bizarre idea and random people claiming Amber was the Creator of the Universe. Later it was a mockery of how popular Pagan personalities (especially Pagan Podcasters) have a tendency to simply create a tradition of their own and expect their listeners to become followers of that tradition.

 

Czechoslovakian

Euphemism for ████████.

 

Darkling

We have no clue what this is supposed to be either, sorry.

 

Ego Stroking

A term used to describe giving someone a complement in such a way that it boosts their ego.

 

Energy Work

The non-ritualistic use of chi energy to achieve a goal. Further discussion on the blog.

 

Episode 86, Infamous

An episode that underwent substantial editing to ensure no one looked like an idiot when discussing Pop Culture Magic.

 

Fighterview

When an otherwise normal interview becomes a very emotional battle of wills and ideas.  Essentially the interview equivalent of a fight.

 

File! New!

Jason once time deleted 2 raw recordings of PCP by not knowing how to use the “New” command in the “File” menu in our audio recording program. As a result close to 3 hours of work was lost and overwritten with a test clip of Amber on Skype. The episodes were later re-recorded.

 

“Fire Keeper”

Jokingly referred to as the only listener of our podcast is a die hard listener who has frequent contact with the hosts and listens to all of our live shows. Yes, if you become this hardcore of a fan, we will put you in our dictionary of PCPisms

 

Fluffy Bunny

Does not denote experience within a faith. Instead it describes individuals who join a partcular faith as a fad, for status or for self-aggrandizement… OR simply lack a thourough understanding of their faith and as a result make silly statements like “Never Again The Burning Times” when there were no Burning Times to begin with. We usually use this term on occasion to describe someone that in the words of Dr. LeVay would be called a “white-lighter.”

 

Flufftarded

Indicative of something that is not well thought out that a Fluffy Bunny would sterotypoically do.

 

Flux Dammit! Flux!

Something frequently muttered by Jason when he’s angry and performing sensitive electronics work. For the record, Jason is excellent at doing the electronics stuff.

 

Fundieville

A term used to describe a municipality with an abnormally high concentration of religious fundamentalists regardless of religion, often a Christ-centered religion.

 

F-ck You Moe!

Used in place of “Touche.” This phrase originated when some senile old person at a party Ashlee was attending kept saying this phrase over and over. Ashlee eventually did meet Moe.

 

Fur Suit

A running joke that people (commonly those with a furry sexual fetish) that claim to be Otherkin solely to have sex with animals love wearing fur suits during intercourse.

 

Furry

See Wikipedia Entry

 

God

A character played by Jason in skits, often involving sexual advances at characters portrayed by Ashlee. Ironic since Ashlee often claims to be a Goddess on the program.

 

Heaven

A place Ashlee, Jason and Dave don’t want to go to otherwise they’ll have to deal with Christian Fundamentalists for eternity.

 

I’m Bleeding Profusely

This is a saying commonly associated with Barrett. One day when he was at Amber’s former apartment, he was in his usual garb (see: Barrett). He left his Athame on a couch and when he went to sit down, he sat right on it. His initial reaction was screaming “I’m Bleeding Profusely!” as he bled from his posterior.

 

Killer Bees, Oh My God I’m Allergic To

A reference to the remake of the Wicker Man where the original plot was twisted into a mockery of the original where the protaganist is allergic to Killer Bees… as opposed to getting burned to death in a Wicker Man.

 

Link

Synonym for Psionic link.

 

Magic

See Magick.

 

Magick

See Blog Entry

 

Mark

One of Ashlee’s ex-boyfriends. He is notorious for being stupid and a complete asshole. Also known as the “New Barret.” His claim to fame: Uses actual Magic the Gathering cards to do magick. Yes, you heard me right. Magic the Gathering. Also well known for choosing World of Warcraft over sexual intercourse. Furthermore, Mark is known for his inability to read or properly speak the English language saying phrases such as “Release his vowels.” For a sample of his speech, please refer to this forum thread on the Cult of Amber.

 

Metaphysically Emo

Someone who is chronically attention whoring by means of metaphysics. They’re always under attack by some being or they’re some metaphysically important individual or whatever bla bla bla.

 

Metaphysics

See Blog Entry

 

Neo-Paganism

As we use it: A term to describe a New-Age/Hippy sub-culture of Paganism. This definition is based off experiences of those who self-identify as Neo-Pagan vs. those who self-identify as Pagan. (See also: Paganism)

 

Ow My Eye!

A mockery of Jason’s intolerance to pain. One episode we had a tiny plastic football we were tossing around the studio and Ashlee wanted to hit Jason in the head. Instead, it hit Jason’s eye and he replied with “Ow, My Eye!” Ashlee then yelled at him saying it couldn’t possibly have hurt that much. – It was a quote taken from “That 70’s Show” where the character of Kelso always got hit in the eye.

 

Pagan

As we use it: A person who identifies themselves as having a faith other than Islam, Christianity or Judaism and embraces Paganism.

 

Paganism

As we use it: The general culture of Pagans. (See also: Neo-Paganism)

 

Path

Describes a person’s collection of beliefs which may or may not be a religion.

 

PCP Studio 1

Where we recorded much of Season 1 of PCP: the Clarion campus of Clarion University of PA

 

PCP Studio 2

Jason's Apartment, where we recorded part of Season 2, and Seasons 5 and 6.

PCP Studio 5

Our first stand-alone studio just for PCP.  It's a room devoted just to recording the Pagan Centered Podcast.  PCP often lends use of the studio to assist causes it supports, such as the Pagan Newswire Collective.  This has been the home of PCP since Season 11.

Pentacle

As we use it: describes a figure of an interwoven five-pointed star circumscribed with a circle. Describes the figure, not any physical representation of that symbol (e.g. necklace)

 

Pentagram

Synonym for pentacle (as we use it).

 

Polish

Euphemism for Brandon

 

Pop Culturalist

Euphemism for a certain self-published author.

 

Pwn3d

Pronounced p-owned. It is when The Universe gets a good chuckle at screwing someone over just when they thought they were in the clear. An example based on something that happened: a speeder slows down to not get a speeding ticket from a trooper parked along the side of an Interstate – a mile later thinking they are in the clear, they put the pedal back to the metal. As they do this, another trooper pulls onto the interstate from an on-ramp and before they can take any action to cover up their speeding, they get pulled over. That driver got pwn3d.

 

Recovering Catholic

An individual who used to be Catholic (usually Roman Catholic) and is now on a Pagan path.

 

Release Your Vowels

This quote originated from Ashlee’s now ex-boyfriend Mark. He was describing the South Park Episode titled Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes where Cartman makes a bet that the last thing a person does before they die is release their bowels. Unfortunately, he said “release their vowels.” This later transformed into a sexual innuendo where he would make Ashlee release her vowels in the bedroom during her orgasm, screaming “A!… E!…. I!…. OOooo!… U!… … and sometimes Y!”

 

Rit

Ritual

 

Ritual

See Blog Entry

 

Rule 34

See UbranDictionary.com's definition.

 

Russia

1. The country with the most awesome people
2. Euphemism for Amber

 

Save the Whales, Kill the Plants

A phrase designed to mock those who are vegans for political reasons – not caring that Plants are just as much alive as flesh and blood beings. Often these folks send e-mails saying “Save the Whales.” Dave got a crap ton of these when the podcast first started, after which he responded “I don’t give a S..t about the Whales!” They claim to want to save life, these vegans kill dozens plants for their salads like there’s no tomorrow. We prefer to just kill 1 cow and eat beef for a month.

 

Season

A season is a group of 10 episodes.  The season number can be determined by taking all digits but the last digit and subtracting 1 such that season 1 is episodes 0 through 9 and season 13 is episodes 120 through 129.  

 

The origin of this goes back to the origins of PCP as a show by Backlash Shows.  The leaders of Backlash Shows (Dave of PCP and friend of the show, JD) were unexpectedly asked by a WCUB radio host how they determine a season for the podcast: CU Backslash.  The on-the-spot answer was that a season was 10 episodes.  This tradition has continued onto PCP.

 

Nowadays, a season of PCP is roughly how many episodes are recorded during a season of the year making the term more appropriate.  In contrast, a season of a television show is typically the number of shows recorded in a fiscal year, which is often between 12 and 17 episodes.

 

Sexy Librarian

Nick’ s Nickname. This would be referring to our first fan in the UK named Nick.

 

Space Cadet

An individual, typically one who practices Reiki, and due to absorbing all energies is now disconnected from their physical body, as if their astral form is floating above their physical body. Their aura can resemble taking a bunch of oil paint, mixing it together and putting it in water – a floating glob of eww.

 

Spirit of Fire, I’m the

A nickname given to Dave’s successor who took over the Clarion Group when he stepped down. The nickname was given by the Pagan community as a whole based off her being a Fire Elemental at a mock ritual held on the Clarion University Campus in which she said “I’m the Spirit of Fire.”

 

The PCP Effect

A mock combination of the Slashdot Effect with the Colbert Bump. In an effort to exaggerate the awesomeness and popularity of our podcast despite only having a few hundred listeners combined with the Season 7 theme of Dave being a Pagan Stephen Colbert, anything that happens that in any way vaguely resembles anything discussed on the program has now been termed The PCP Effect. Additionally, if any websites we recommend go down within close temporal proximity to when we recommended them, that is also considered The PCP Effect.

 

The PCP Effect is portrayed as being the effect of PCP to manipulate the world population. However, in reality, it is likely just something borderlining synchronicity.

 

The PCP Effect received ego stroking when the show was featured in Issue 50, the final issue, of PanGaia Magazine.

 

Translucent Jello Powers (of the Dark Lord), Super

A mockery of how energy work is portrayed in movies, specifically The Covenant where Ashlee remarked that magic looked like translucent jello.

 

Tristan

Pseudonym for Jason.

 

Ukranian

Euphemism for Adam from the Stroudsburg area.

 

Universe, The

Synonym for whatever force you believe is responsible for Karma.

 

Vatican Vault

A mythical place located at the Vatican where supposedly documents and relics of all the secrets of the Universe previously known by mankind that the Catholic faith doesn’t want their followers to know about are stored. Often thought to be a warehouse of useful and powerful metaphysical information used to help defend the Catholic faith and its leaders.

 

Venango County Group

Formerly the Mystics Cove Pagan Network, they were the parent organization of the Clarion Group. During a period of time when this organization was lacking in membership, they would attend Clarion Group functions as if they were their own.

 

White-lighter

Someone who is excessively a Right-Hand-Pather. They believe in ultra-tolerance and a lack of evil in the universe. They lack balance and as a result are frequently pwn3d by The Universe.

 

Yiffin Furries

A phrase used to convey a degree of disliking for members of the Furry community.

 

You, sir, are a fucking moron.

A phrase uttered by pow-wow boy Daniel that was edited out of Episode 86.  Now considered among the things not to say when you're on the podcast for the first time.  The person who said this is now banished from Hatteras Island.