Blue Cawdrey's definitions

Gutter shag

Tobacco reclaimed from discarded cigarete butts.

The bag lady shuffled along looking for butt ends to top up her tin of gutter shag

by Blue Cawdrey November 19, 2004

Bag of Nails

Way of describing a hard faced women perhaps who has a tendancy to drink heavily and to get into frequent fights.

I opened my eyes the next morning and she had a face like a bag of nails, just looking at her gave me a massive soft on so I left before she woke up.

by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004

Barrack room lawyer

1) UK: A member of the British army that knows every paragraph, clause and sub clause of the Kings or Queens regulations, a book regulating discipline in the British forces.

2) A person that can get out of trouble by a thourogh knowlege of the rules.

Squady 1: Private Houdini's been charged with insubordination, do you think he will be found guilty?

Squady 2: Nah! He will get away with it again by quoting Queens regulations, he is a true barrack room lawyer.

by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004

Keyboard plaque

The dead skin and other gunk that builds up on a computer keyboards over time.

Euuuk! shake off that keyboard plaque someware else.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

Short arm inspection

The part of a medical inspection when the doctor asks the (male) inspectee to cough.

Get the platoon lined up in front of the medical officer for short arm inspection.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

dead as a doornail

Goes way past brain death, if your are dead as a doornail prepare to become a 'hotel for worms'.
Dodos perhaps are the only creatures with a similar lack of animation; see dead as the dodo.

On the morticians slab both Qusay and Uday were laid out cold, both dead as a doornail, they looked so peacfull that it made me really happy to see them lying there.

by Blue Cawdrey November 23, 2004

shit itself

Technical term for frequent computer behaviour when running Microsoft Operating Systems, often accompanied by a blue screen or memory dump. Will often happen just before saving work or towards the end of a large download.
Usually remedied by liberal application of the three fingered salute.

Crap on crap! the MS box has shit itself again.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004