Duckbutt's definitions
This is the plight occasionally experienced by lower-level college administrators such as department or division chairs in which they are on a short leash as to what they can do, are regularly given a ration of shit, and are kept in the dark.
No budget, no instructions, no discretion or wiggle room; Bill has been consigned to mushroom status and regular Friday afternoon meetings.
by Duckbutt September 23, 2005
Get the mushroom statusmug. Scheissenbedaurn is the vague sense of disappointment that something thought to be really bad or in awful taste turns out to be not as bad as expected. (From the German, meaning literally: "shit-regret")
I left concerts by the Dixie Chicks and by Britney Spears with a vague sense of scheissenbedaurn. They merely mildly sucked, but neither was the world-class suckfest I longed for. The same thing cannot be said about the enormity that is a Barbra Streisand concert.
by Duckbutt October 27, 2006
Get the Scheissenbedaurnmug. A person's remoras are a personal retinue of sycophants that maintain the fragile esteem of an important person and bask in that person's reflected glory. They do not serve some instrumental purpose. such as bodyguards or assistants, but are merely a mobile personal cheering squad.
by Duckbutt April 27, 2006
Get the remorasmug. by Duckbutt November 20, 2005
Get the airborne coitusmug. by Duckbutt January 11, 2008
Get the New Jersey bubble bathmug. by Duckbutt April 28, 2006
Get the univacmug.