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JakeD
12-05-03, 12:43PM
brodie (BROH-dee) noun

1. A daredevil or suicidal jump.

2. A spectacular failure.

3. A sudden change in a vehicle's direction.

[After Steve Brodie, who claimed to be the first person to survive a dive from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886.]

Should you believe Steve Brodie's claim? Here's the math:
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/node22.html

"The yuppie market is where everybody wants to be because that's where
the money is -- or was, up until the Dow Jones did a Brodie."
John R. White, Buick Regal, The Boston Globe, Nov 15, 1987.

"After all the hype, the movie did a brodie after the second week."
Jim Beckerman, et al, The Highs & Lows of '97 Movies, Record (Bergen
County, NJ), Dec 28, 1997.


I took a Brodie off of the cliff to save the kid from drowning.

Diva
12-05-03, 12:58PM
I think Bush's legacy will be a brodie.

Boozer
12-05-03, 04:04PM
I did a brodie while taking Tina home Monday night.

whitecrow
12-07-03, 03:24PM
whoa dude! what a brodie!