harry flashman's definitions

Maginot Line

Some place the Germans will revisit the next time they get a weekend barbeque rained out.

Gerta, looks like rain, put the bratwurst away, get the kids in the Benz, we're going frog hunting at the Maginot line.

by harry flashman July 11, 2003

sworded

Squalid, ignoble or filthy.

Bubba heard Reginald call him sworded and wondered how he knew that he was carrying a pocket knife.

by harry flashman July 29, 2003

pisser

A word used in mock earnest to indicate grave misfortune.

I read in the Boston Globe that Senator Kennedy has a prostate the size of a grapefruit...now ain't that a pisser!

by harry flashman August 1, 2003

nosepicker

A military officer who is a graduate of his or her respective service academy.

It wasn't LCDR Schmedlapp's leadership skills that identified her as a nosepicker...it was the USNA ring two fingers down from the one buried up to the second knuckle in her nose.

by harry flashman July 12, 2003

assteroid

An asshole of asteroid or planetoid proportions.

Though not gifted with the ability to articulate his feelings in a socially aceptable way, Larry was able to compensate by behaving like an assteroid and getting his point across quite effectively.

by harry flashman July 13, 2003

lotto

An idiot's 401k.

Thelma put her money in a high risk, aggressive investment even though she knew that 85 year old Haitians in this country illegally usually won the lotto, she didn't know of any other fiduciary instrument that paid such a high rate of return.

by harry flashman August 12, 2003

slope

A ratio of distance to rise, a grade or an angle.

We knew Curtis was off his medication when he ordered $500,000 worth of 21"X15" Bitumenous Coated Corregated Metal pipe Mitered End Sections with a 12:1 slope.

by harry flashman July 17, 2003