What is Archie?
1.
A nickname for
me: OMG! Archie is such an amazing singer!
my sister: No duh!
or
All archies love archie. :]
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2.
1.A very talented and well rounded student in High School
2.A positive example in the school setting.
3.A student that is understanding and open minded.
4.A good looking student in high school
Student 1: Who's the student of the month?
Student 2: I dont know probably some Archie
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3.
A person studying architecture. Easily identifiable by a slightly zombie-like demeanor, i.e. stumbling about in a half-lucid daze. They can be found in studio spaces, desperately clutching pencils, pieces of wood, and caffinated drinks.
What happened to John?
Oh, he's been asleep for 36 hours. He's an archie.
4.
One of the greatest natural selection players that has ever lived.
'omg he killed me
archie without even shooting'
'woah i was invisable but he sensed me without even moving
archie '
'He moves like a skulk
archie '
'holy shit he is skilled
archie '
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5.
What your best friend refers to your mom as.
Friend: hey where's archie?
me: In the kitchen.
or
Archie drove me to the mall today.
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6.
To FAIL (EPIC) in front of the audience most capable of eternally memorializing your error on the internet.
Pradipta archied the Ruby On Rails positions email. He accidentally CC'ed it 416 web developers. There will be 200 web references to his error in 24 hours.
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7.
Also spelled "Archy".
In the early part of the First World War, RFC pilots nicknamed the German AAA "Archie", after a pilot or observer (whose name is unknown). To show his contempt for the
(The example is kind of long, sorry)
"I had hardly got control of myself when I was horribly startled by an explosion which seemed only a few feet in my rear. I didn't even have time to look around, for at the same instant the concussion caught my plane and I began to roll and toss much worse than I had ever realized was possible. The very terror of my situation drove away all thoughts of sickness. In the midst of it several more shocks tipped my machine and repeated sounds of nearby explosions smote my ears. No matter what happened, I must look around to see what awful fate was overtaking me.
"All that I could see were four or five black puffs of smoke some distance behind and below my tail.
"I knew what they were right enough. They were " Archie "! They were eighteen- pound shells of shrapnel which were being fired at me by the Germans. And the battery which was firing them was only too well known to me. We had all been told about the most accurate battery that allied aviators had met in this sector...And probably they had quite a few more of those shells on hand which they were contemplating popping up at me...
"...Little by little my alarm passed away. I began to watch the course of the black puffs behind me. I grew accustomed to the momentary disturbance of the se: after each explosion and almost mechanically I met the lift of the machine with the gentle pressure of my joystick, which righted my Nieuport and smoothed it; course. And a rush of happiness came over me with the assurance that I was neither going to be sick nor was I any longer in any terror of the bursting shells. By Jove, I had passed through the ordeal! A feeling of elation possessed me as I realized that my long dreamed and long dreaded noviciate was over.. "
-'Fighting the Flying Circus', by Eddie Rickenbacker, 1919.
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