Blue Cawdrey's definitions

intercap

A way of writing familar to computer programmers. Some high level computer languages do not understand spaces. Sometimes the underscore is used as a substitution or alternetivly Intercapping is used to join words.
This sometimes filters through to mainstream use in written communication.

startPsuedocode:

Rem Underscoring
var_one random_Number = (1*16);

Rem InterCapping
varOne randomNumber = (1*16);

EOF

Intercapping
UsedInNormalCommunication
Also
DefiesTheMostAdvancedSpellcheckers.

by Blue Cawdrey November 19, 2004

on the rocks

When a marriage is going to run aground like a boat on a foggy reef..

Shaz's marriage was on the rocks due to her insensitivity to her husbands foot odor and halitosis.

by Blue Cawdrey November 23, 2004

Keyboard plaque

The dead skin and other gunk that builds up on a computer keyboards over time.

Euuuk! shake off that keyboard plaque someware else.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

Let the moths out

Hint to a tight arse that it is their turn to buy a round at the bar. It refers to a seldomly opened wallet or purse.

Come on Scrooge are you going to let the moths out.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004

Barrack room lawyer

1) UK: A member of the British army that knows every paragraph, clause and sub clause of the Kings or Queens regulations, a book regulating discipline in the British forces.

2) A person that can get out of trouble by a thourogh knowlege of the rules.

Squady 1: Private Houdini's been charged with insubordination, do you think he will be found guilty?

Squady 2: Nah! He will get away with it again by quoting Queens regulations, he is a true barrack room lawyer.

by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004

dead as a doornail

Goes way past brain death, if your are dead as a doornail prepare to become a 'hotel for worms'.
Dodos perhaps are the only creatures with a similar lack of animation; see dead as the dodo.

On the morticians slab both Qusay and Uday were laid out cold, both dead as a doornail, they looked so peacfull that it made me really happy to see them lying there.

by Blue Cawdrey November 23, 2004

shit itself

Technical term for frequent computer behaviour when running Microsoft Operating Systems, often accompanied by a blue screen or memory dump. Will often happen just before saving work or towards the end of a large download.
Usually remedied by liberal application of the three fingered salute.

Crap on crap! the MS box has shit itself again.

by Blue Cawdrey November 18, 2004