Fearman's definitions

hypocrisy

Hypocrisy: Pat Robertson lamenting America's turn to Mammon.

The 700 Club is such hypocrisy it wouldn't last a second in Europe.

by Fearman May 24, 2008

hooker

1. A prostitute, specifically a term used in the United States to describe a woman who sells her sex on the streets or roads as opposed to a higher-class call girl, brothel worker or one man's mistress.

2. A traditional sailing vessel most often associated with Galway Bay, Ireland. Typically with a broad, stout timber hull and red or occasionally black sails. Used to transport turf (peat), hay, livestock and other goods along the coast and out to the Aran and other islands. Connection to the first definition of hooker is hazy at best.

You can pick up a hooker for fifty bucks on the way out of town.

The Galway Hookers used to run a race between Galway port and Kinvara.

by Fearman January 11, 2008

mention Voldemort

To say something not meant to be said in polite company, thereby committing a serious faux pas. To say something politically incorrect. From the arch-villain of the Harry Potter series, whose name is not supposed to be mentioned in civil wizarding company.

I was only talking about how we need animal protein in our meals ... did I mention Voldemort there?

by Fearman August 4, 2007

now a minor motion picture

Now a minor motion picture: a blurb I have yet to see on a book cover. Have you?

How to Rationalise Telling Sam She was Akin to a Dead Mouse in a Latrine in Swahili, by R.A.K. Martin-Smythe. Now a minor motion picture from the Confrere Brothers.

by Fearman May 30, 2008

vajoina

Term used in Foxrock, Dublin, Eire to refer to the midsection of the female genital tract.

Roysh, you understand, Jow, its loike this, roysh, you jast fook her up the vajoina, roysh?

by Fearman November 24, 2007

yuppie's necktie fallacy

Fallacious belief that something must be good because you shelled out a lot of money for it. From the joke about two nouveau-riche types who are standing next to each other at a party wearing identical ties. One says, "I got this tie for five hundred Euro". The other says, "That's nothing. I got mine for at least two thousand Euro." Not to be confused with the principal that if you buy cheap, you get cheap ... for a yuppie's necktie is never cheap.

Don't spend a hundred grand on a car. Only those who can't see through the yuppie's necktie fallacy do that.

by Fearman September 16, 2007

chime in the slime

Local term for a digital counter with a green readout submerged in the River Liffey immediately upstream of O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, Ireland some time in the mid-1990s and intended to count away the remaining seconds to the start of the year 2000 CE. Within a matter of weeks it was clogged up with scum and dirt, broke down and had to be removed.

What do you think was better: the stiletto in the ghetto or the chime in the slime?

by Fearman December 10, 2007