Define Chautauqua Meaning

An over hyped relic of the past that seems to live on its own self importance. Mainly due to the fact that the rich and upper-middle-class overextended (wanna be rich) have made massive real-estate investments.

Located in Chautauqua, NY... Chautauqua is a place where rich to upper middle class suburbanites from Ohio, NY, Pennsylvania, ... congregate during the Summer to put on a show that they are "cultured" and attempt to be somehow relevant.

All the while their alcoholic neglected children drink their asses off and cavort with each other all Summer (read: massive party). The whole time saying that they will never be like their parents, and then returning to Chautauqua in their mid-life to repeat the same process.

With a joke of an entertainment program and a decent lecture circuit, Demtards like Al Gore and Bill Clinton show up once in a while.

similar to the traveling tent-shows which used to move across America in the 'old days' giving popular talks intending to edify, entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the listener.

word meaning "liquid shit" mentioned ad nauseam by prick/author Robert Prisig in Zen or the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. this word can be used at any time, for anything, especially as a replacement for expletives

Day camp for kids through their freshman year of high school. Counselors are kids who peaked in freshman and sophomore year and are majorly depressed during the school year and are desperate to relive their glory days.

Counselors and older kids drink their asses off (counselors to forget that they’re almost adults and have already peaked). Work ethic = low and counselors = hungover. Once the counselors are too old to work there, they pretend they’re happy and move on to something else in the summer, until they have kids and bring them back to CHQ to continue the cycle.

Seasoners bring their kids and make them seasoners too in a desperate and futile attempt to live vicariously through their kids (since they peaked in high school). These kids will undoubtedly grow up and become counselors, peak in high school like their parents, and bring their kids to Chautauqua and put them through Boys and Girls Club, completing the cycle year after year.