# Glossary nominee **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 10, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591 "2007-05-10T20:31:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/21 "2007-05-11T16:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] In that spirit, what are some alternatives for the RO in question? [/QUOTE] Ruh-oh! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/22 "2007-05-11T16:44:14Z")
Recycled Odor ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/23 "2007-05-11T17:06:45Z")
Regicidal oyster. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/24 "2007-05-11T19:08:03Z")
Already suggested **R** ectal **O** rifice Also ran **R** etroactive **O** bfuscation ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/25 "2007-05-11T22:45:03Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] Alright, so my tentative definition would be: RO [“Recreational Outrage”] describes when a person gets all worked up (outraged) over some moral or ethical issue and derives satisfaction (recreation) from expressing that outrage. Usually, the inciting occurrence is either trivial or completely irrelevant to the person and his/her own life. [/QUOTE] I think the key to the “recreational” portion of the outrage specifically is that the issue is irrelevant to the poster’s own life. “The cops shot my 90-year old neighbor” is not RO, it’s outrage over what happened down the block. “The cops shot a 90-year old [in some random place], isn’t it awful” is. “Some sonofabitch killed my cats” is not RO. “Police nab serial cat killer” is. Also, the true RO posts that I see aren’t typically about “some moral or ethical issue” but about some news story or other current event. Getting all torqued off over Bush’s latest or the application of the death penalty may be outrage, but when the issue is serious, the outrage seems less “recreational.” Typical RO posts are outrage over some irrelevant but abberant and horrible behavior. There will be always child abductors, embezzelers from charity, leavers of pets in hot cars and what have you popping up in the news. RO posting is rending your garments over the latest one that happens seven states away. RO is frequently combined with a sense of moral superiority that the poster couldn’t even conceve of being so morally destitute as the headline-grabber who drove the SUV into the gathering of nuns. My definition would be: Recreational Outrage (RO) is posting in a highly worked up manner over trivial or irrelevant current events or issues that do not personally affect the poster for the (recreational) satisfaction of expressing outrage over the horrors of the world. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/26 "2007-05-12T01:47:58Z")
Thanks for the comments, all, and espesh **Billdo** … I have modified accordingly. I don’t think an example is necessary, it seems fairly clear. Any glossary words that are no longer used that could be removed? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/27 "2007-05-12T02:06:18Z")
While we’re at it, I’m pretty sure there’s a typo in the glossary in the entry on **1920s Style Death Ray** : _1920s Style Death Ray – Former member Dogface’s used this startled exclamation (repeatedly) in the midst of a discussion of “scalar weapons” that was probably the longest GQ thread ever._ I don’t think the apostrophe should be there in “Dogface”. Unless there really was a member named “Dogface’s” who doesn’t show up on search. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/28 "2007-05-12T02:13:03Z")
While we’re picking nits, there is an extra space before the second close parenthesis in the RO definition. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/29 "2007-05-12T13:32:20Z")
Typos noted and edited. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591/30 "2007-05-12T16:45:41Z")
Thanks, **Dex** – appreciate your adding it so quickly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glossary-nominee/403591.md?page=1)