Thorbjørntjeneste, literally "Thorbjørn service", is a Norwegian word meaning disservice. It derived from the name Thorbjørn (a double name consisting of the names Thor (meaning thunder) and Bjørn (meaning bear)) and from the term bjørnetjeneste (cognate to German Bärendienst, literally "bear service"), a common metaphor used in northern, central and eastern Europe, which means to, with the best of intentions, do more harm than good, or to set out to help someone and actually end up doing harm to that person. The word thorbjørntjeneste was coined in 2009, and refers to Thorbjørn Jagland, a much ridiculed Norwegian politician who was described as a fool by the Australian foreign minister, awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama for Obama's speeches and good intentions and in order to "help" him. Obama was nominated for the prize 11 days after he was sworn in as President. The award was widely described as an embarassment to Obama by the world press. The term thorbjørntjeneste or Thorbjørn service is related to the verb "thorbjorning" (or "thorbjørning" in Norwegian), coined by New York Times columnist Yoni Brenner.

A length of time that will actually require an extra half of the original amount before completion.

The meaning of "bear's service" originally comes from a fable about a man and a bear. The bear wanted to help the man by killing a gnat which sat on his forehead. As a result both the gnat and the man died.

This idiom is known primarily in Slavic languages.

any city dwelling human who totally relies on the service industry of grocery, restaurant, corner market or fast food to eat. . . and would be totally lost and eventually die from either eating raw roadkill or shot for stealing food from someone else if the service industry were to fail.

urbavores, though able to make meals, are unable to hunt, kill and clean any animal and most likely cannot grow their own vegetables or fruits properly, and would have died off even less than one hundred years ago.

better know to me as aohell. It's a horrible service which drags it's ass more than nerv does. It boots me every 2 hours on the mark, and gives me fun spywear to deal with all the time. It is also completly uncompatable w/ windows XP.. so they fight as if aohell is the dragons of earth and windows xp is the dragons of heaven. And during there fights my poor compy transcends into no gayden goku hell, and waits till the barrier falls or the dragon of earth is banished into the castle of uranus.

NATO reporting name for legendary Soviet long-range reconnaisance bomber. Used to be often found snooping around UK and US airspace. Still in service after 50 years.

Supposedly a web browser. Responsible for 90% of revenue I recieve from service calls regarding computers infected with viruses and spyware. A useful tool for downloading Mozilla Firefox or Opera, if you don't already have them.

Also known as: Toilet Paper