defining the indefinable

So in response to Nat's query as to what "craic" is, I came up with this:

The intangible Irish party spirit. It's one of these multipurpose words that doesn't have an easily nailed-down meaning; "how's the craic?" is a general greeting, "what's the craic?" is a sort of "what's going on here?", the slightly more specific "what's the craic with yer man?" equates to "what's wrong with him?", "it was great craic" is sort of "it was great fun", and there's the completely incomprehensible "the craic was ninety" which, somehow, means that it was totally the best atmosphere ever. Oh, and doing something "for the/a craic" means doing it for fun, or without any serious intention at least. "Let's try the karaoke for the craic!"

I hope this clears things up.

department of giggling fanboys

This is just too funny. You start out with "the world's smallest flying webserver", then you give it to a bunch of randomly insane guys to riff off. I like the vampire idea, myself.