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v. 1) employing ones wiles to rise to the top.

2) upper crust British catering, usually inedible.
1) Lemarette is the new shift manager! I thought I was good at katering but that fluffer must be masterful.

2) Two Earls died of explosive diarrhoea in the Royal enclosure at Ascot last week.

Only two? Sounds like the katering has finally improved.
by gnostic1 April 30, 2011
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n. Any important ice-curling or water-polo tournament where prizes in the form of large coffee-cups are awarded for shot-rock, sweepings mvp, and top goalie. Often Canadians and Swedish folk take their elderly or infirm relatives to Briars as it is a restful form of entertainment that will not over-stimulate the senses. Traditionally women are not allowed to compete in Briars except mid-week but this is changing with the introduction of half-weight rocks. A Canada-wide briar, in which the revered Tim Horton's Coffee Tankard is awarded, is held every three years with entrants selected in a national lottery.

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Are you taking your granny to the Briar in Calgary this week-end? I hear the Canadian coffee tankard is up for grabs.

No. She has to get her colostomy changed over for the winter so it don't freeze.
by gnostic1 February 4, 2012
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place. Industrial city where most of Ohio's fridge magnets are forged. Located where the magnetite miners had easy access to both water and oil Tynersburg grew from a small hamlet to a bustling metropolis at the turn of the century when fridges began to be formed from metal instead of wood.

Home of the Fighting Woodchuks pasanka choir and a Bavarian Beer Stein interpretive center, Tynersburg boasts a bold hold on the past and a niche-based future.

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Isn't Tynersburg the home of both an Olympic archer and a famous composer of Indian ragas?

Why yes. I believe it is, and I think you can buy cleverly constructed fridge magnets celebrating both of them.
by gnostic1 August 10, 2012
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v.phrase. Removing one's top in public, if one is a royal female (an allusion to Queen Elizabeth's pet dogs.

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Why all the fuss about Kate Middleton going topless. There's a long history of princesses letting the corgis out.
by gnostic1 September 24, 2012
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adj. 1) Over-rated; overblown; pompous;

2) Swedish.

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Hey Sven. I like your nobel Volvo!

Thanking you!

I'm being sarcastic Sven.

Thanking you!
by gnostic1 October 8, 2011
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n. Central activity in Rugby football. Sixteen overweight men or women push into each other while holding one anothers shirt tails. Face-kicking, ear-biting and scrotum-butting are allowed, but, oddly, foot-lifting is severely punished. A call of "not in straight" results in a penalty kick instead of knowing sniggers while a call of "push over try" results in jubilation and moist scrum down.
Scrum! White! There's your mark! Crouch! Touch! Pause! Engage!

Is that referee high on something? The match hasn't started!
by gnostic1 June 28, 2012
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place. Welsh mining village nestled in the Snowdonian range in Glamorgan. Twice voted the least pronouceable place on the planet.

Quilt making, poetry composition and pneumoconiosis are the backbones of the economy.
Here now Yestin. What say we amble down the mountain to look for lassies in Llandwbllllwydd?
by gnostic1 August 13, 2011
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