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Definitions by Uncle Dimma

en temps et lieux utiles 

French phrase meaning essentially, a combination of "when the time is right (for you to know)" and "if and when you will be mature enough (to know)".
son: Dad, who is Jerry Sandusky? I keep hearing his name a lot lately on Fox News. And how is it possible for a coach to be accused of something so serious?

father: Oh. you'll learn en temps et lieux utiles. Now go sleep tight.

damno quod non intelligo 

a Latin phrase meaning: I reject anything, everything and anyone I don't (and, in the overwhelming majority of cases, won't even make the effort to) understand.
teacher : does anyone know what damno quod non intelligo mean?

student: it means, "I reject anything, everything, and everyone I don't understand"

teacher: Bravo Michael, but how did you know?(to himself, at least there are some Latinists in this class).

bumble-stumbling 

verb: (to be) to skip school without a valid reason and to be doing something else other than what you are supposed to be doing in school. This is also called truating in Great Britain
father: Peter, I have rotten eggs for you. Your school principal, Principal Skinner, just called and said you were bumble-stumbling at Cavendish Mall.

Peter: What the hell is it Principal Skinner's vegetable soup where i am during school hours, as long I get my homework done on time. And how in the devil's name did he find out anyways that I was at Cavendish Mall.

father: Walls have eyes and ears. He told me he used his spy-glass to look through his office window. besides Cavendish Mall is right across the street from your high school, no?
bumble-stumbling by Uncle Dimma September 26, 2012
a schoolgirl (usually girls under the age of 18), expression for "so cute and beautiful' The expression shrieked in delight.
a schoolgirl receives, from her parents, new earrings for her birthday.

Parents: Jenn, do you like your new earrings we gave you?

Jenn (looking at her present): Thanks a lot mom and dad, the earring are (shrieks in delight) so Hawaii. (Jenn then hugs both her parents).

Parents: Jenn, we are glad you like your new earrings. Enjoy your Sweet Sixteenth 9her mom then kisses her).
so Hawaii by Uncle Dimma September 23, 2012

subjectively meaningless 

an activity that is objectively useful to everyone you know, including yourself, except the person who uses this phrase on you, who defines your activity as useless and subjective only to themselves).
boy 1) my mother says that smoking Mary Jane is meaningless

boy 2) just ignore your compiliterate . her opinion is subjectively meaningless, that it is, it is meaningless only according to her, but meaningful to everyone else we know.

playing Minecraft 

doing something subjectively meaningless, i.e. something that is objectively useful to everyone, including yourself, except the person who uses this phrase on you, who defines your activity as useless and subjective only to themselves).
mother: Adam, go help your father in the yard, if I may interrupt you. All you've been doing to day in playing Minecraft.

Adam: okay, I'll go help dad, but remember that the purpose, of playing Minecraft, I mean the actual game, is subjectively meaningless to youm, since everybody objectively defines it as useful except for you. (Adam goes off to help his dad).
playing Minecraft by Uncle Dimma September 18, 2012

to reform The Church 

(verb): to become a nihilist/anarchist/political shit disturber.
a history professor: students, what's the fastest way to go hell and to be punished by either G-d or the Unforgivables?

student: to become Jesus Christ the historical character and to reform The Church?

professor: Correct you are, but this only applies, as you yourself pointed out, to Jesus the historical character,
to reform The Church by Uncle Dimma September 18, 2012