Related to Writer's Block, this is when you cannot, for the life of you, pick up a book and read it. Sure, you may be able to read a paragraph or two, or maybe even a page, but you don't retain anything of what you just read or have the attention span and/or will to go on. This is common for those who have ADD, are in possession of garbage literature, or are just so exhausted from having to read so many books during school/college that reading anything else, even for pleasure, has become impossible. To those who love to read, this is worse than heart disease and cancer combined.

A term used to designate that the spouse in control of the household finances has given approval to make a large purchase.

When out of habit you reply to a comment with "You too". This happens to the best of us.

Expendable characters. Usually say one line or less before being killed in a plot-convenient manner.
Most often seen in classic 60's Trek.

What Would James Kirk Do? When stuck in a life-threatening, impossible situation with no realistic plausible means of escape, only a plan thought up by James "Jim" Kirk would work.

The show that you watch while your main show is at a commercial. It is usually not as good as your main show.

The time spent not at school or work due to the closures caused by the Swine Flu scare.

Can be used with any virus, e.g., Bird flucation, regular Flucation, etc.