The ex-Cub factor has nothing to do with the play of ex-Cub. This phrase was invented by Ron Berler. The ex-Cub factor states that any team with three or more ex-Cubs will not win the world series. Many think it is an after effect of the Billy Goat curse, being that curse which prevents the Cubs from reaching the world series.
a retroactive law, a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law.
Guy 1: I just murdered dat bitch for facing me!
Guy 2: Damn! Dat Dumb fuck Bush just laid down a law 'bout dat shit!
Guy 1: Motha fucka!
Guy 2: Shit! You is screwed--dat law is ex post facto!
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'