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n. Lit : Long serving Australian prime minister, with long suffering Australian public. Also,

1) Any disposable rag used for a particularly filthy purpose.

2) Any stooge, fool or corruptible nincompoop in a position of authority who talks a lot but doesn't listen.

3) (Vulgar) A limp penis during a time of great opportunity. See also bitter disappointment :(

4) A bore, a boring person, esp, a boring person who has leeched on to your social group. Also, a single minded social disaster area, whom you don't have the heart to club to death.

v.
5) John Howarding: Any act of stomach churning cowardice involving excessive asskissing, portrayed as great achievement.

1) Pass me a John Howard would ya darlin, I need to wipe the dogshit off the bottom of me workboots.

2)Did you see the way Bruce went all John Howard on us in today's meeting? Talking to him was like talking to a mule's arse and listening to him was about the same.

3) Sorry darlin I was into it... but... I started thinking about the bills and the kids and then before I knew it... it went all John Howard.

4) Davo was a bit of a John Howard at times, always going on about the same old shit on a different bloody day.

5)Gavin was John Howarding his way to the top of his profession until, one night when reading his own speeches, he suddenly died of terminal boredom.
by Costa Del Barto June 25, 2006
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n.
1) A mind-altering form of logic and proof, practiced and developed largely by nerds and geeks, having its origins in prehistory. That study of logic in which simple ideas such as number, line, point or symmetry are used and combined to describe the properties of number, point, line, plane and symmetry.

Subjects within a modern mathematics degree might include selected topics from;

Number Theory: the analysis of why not all numbers are like the number 1.

Calculus: Differential calculus is the study of how to find the slope of a single point while integral calculus is the study of how to add up infinite quantities of numbers and obtain a single finite number as a result.

Topology: The study of how coffee cups are actually quite similar to doughnuts.

Mathematics as a form of mental kung fu is used extensively in all the sciences and in business and trade, it is at the heart of all technical progress. The average person uses mathematics, for example, to locate bargains in shopping malls by simply looking at a few numerals on a price tag.
Hey Cuthberton, did I tell you that I used some kickass zen master mathematics to calculate which mathgirl I would ask out to the science fair?
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A very funny joke involving freedoms, with millions of servile people involved in the punchline.
Ex, The United States of America is a representative democracy.
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(or Downer) Aust, Lit: Australian Foreign Affairs Minister. Also;

n.
1) Any servile lackey. (see john howard)

2) Any sad and lonely person happily pwned by idiots for the sake of any company at all.

3) A useless object (see white elephant), any object serving no legitimate or practical purpose.

4) A happy and inane waffler (see logorrhea, Arnold Rimmer), any person talking to excess about nothing of significance while sporting a dumb smile.

adj.
5) (fashion) Ugly and ill-fitting clothing making men look like women or else making women look too much like men. Also, unattractive. (see fugly)

v.
6)To enjoy being stupid.
1) Mitch is my bitch, Mitch is my (Alexander) Downer. I keep him on a tight leash.

2) Greg could be an Alexander Downer at times. He didn't mind following the biggest losers around if it meant he could save himself from a moment spent alone.

3) That shitty car turned out to be a complete Alexander Downer. It cost a small fortune and never worked.

4) Peter did a total (Alexander) Downer on us. Talking for about thirty minutes on the importance of snails in history.

adj.
5) "Darlin, I hate to tell you but that's a total (Alexander) Downer jacket. It makes your boobs look small and it makes your shoulders look too masculine."

v.
6)(Downing, Downering, Alexander Downering) "Gazza was drunk and tripping, happily Downering the night away, talking to his own feet."
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n: Mathematically able smartass for whom engineering presented far too small a challenge.
See that undergraduate physicist giggling non-stop over those post-grad engineering textbooks?
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(Aust) n.

1) A collective noun for nerds.

2)That group of nerds at any university responsible for nerd tagging or nerdish graffiti.
1) The conference on mathematical methods in physics was a veritable posse of nerds.

2) The Nerd posse pwned the uni toilets. It was almost impossible to take a crap without encountering a formula or two.
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