Eugene206's definitions
1. Refers to Air Canada Boeing 767 C-GAUN (c/n 22520), which on July 23, 1983 ran out of fuel over Northern Ontario, and glided to a landing at an abandoned airfield in Gimli, Manitoba. At the time, this was the first ever dead-stick landing of a jet airliner. The aircraft was subsequently recovered from Gimli and flew for Air Canada for another 25 years before being finally retired in January 2008.
2. Subsequently, the term 'Gimli glider' has become Canadian slang for a particularly glaring screw-up.
2. Subsequently, the term 'Gimli glider' has become Canadian slang for a particularly glaring screw-up.
1. Hopefully, the Gimli glider will end up in a museum.
2. You just pulled a real Gimli Glider back there.
2. You just pulled a real Gimli Glider back there.
by Eugene206 January 24, 2008
Get the Gimli glidermug. Someone famous for being famous (or infamous), particularly in the entertainment industry. A meta-celebrity is a well known celebrity, who has not done anything particularly noteworthy to justify their Fame. The late Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton are two contemporary examples. Meta-celebrities do not always orginate in the entertainment industry, but they nearly always gravitate to it, often as a last ditch effort to extend their "fifteen minutes" as their profile starts to wane.
See also Professional Celebrity, Famious for being famous.
See also Professional Celebrity, Famious for being famous.
by Eugene206 February 14, 2007
Get the meta-celebritymug. Lame mid-nineties attempt by McDonalds to sell pizza in their North American restaurants. Preceded by saturation marketing that scared the living daylights out of the regular pizza places, who figured that the Golden Arches was going to run them out of business. This didn't happen -- the resulting pizza was bland (like much of McD's food offerings), and most people who actually wanted pizza went to a pizza place like they always had. The company and its frachisees were left on the hook for expensive new ovens and widened drive through windows that weren't needed. Even saturation marketing wasn't enough to change the pizza habits of ordinary Americans, and McPizza was gradually abandoned, and generally forgotten. This was a sign that the Golden Arches wasn't always right, and a harbinger of the relative decline that McDonalds has since suffered relative to other fast food options.
by eugene206 October 12, 2006
Get the mcpizzamug. An interesting thing to order at a McDonalds drive through when you're pissed. (Yes, I actually did this, and no, I wasn't driving...)
Drive through speaker: Is that everything?
Drunk passenger: We'd also like two waitresses to go with nothing on them, please.
Drive though speaker: <Silence>
Drunk passenger: We'd also like two waitresses to go with nothing on them, please.
Drive though speaker: <Silence>
by Eugene206 October 13, 2006
Get the two waitresses to go with nothing on themmug. Window at the side of fast food places where you can get food (of some description) without leaving your car. Also sometimes a place where you can get good drugs without leaving your car, if you know the right stuff to order. Primarily a North American thing, in tune with the American way of conducting as much of life as possible from the car.
by Eugene206 December 15, 2006
Get the drive-thrumug. by Eugene206 January 24, 2008
Get the Miley Cyrusmug. 1. (Historical) An undeclared attack by Japan on United States military installations in Hawaii (including the naval base at Pearl Harbor) on December 7, 1941 that led to the United States entering the Second World War.
2. A generic reference to a 'sneak attack' of any kind.
3. An awful 2001 movie, with fictional 'pretty boys' inserted into the historical events of Pearl Harbor in a similar way that Leonardo DiCaprio's character was inserted into the historical events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic in the movie of the same name. (One perceptive critic described the movie as "Titanic with bombs"). The movie was savaged by the critics, although it was a financial success. To see a reasonably accurate filmed history of Pearl Harbor, see Tora Tora Tora (1970).
2. A generic reference to a 'sneak attack' of any kind.
3. An awful 2001 movie, with fictional 'pretty boys' inserted into the historical events of Pearl Harbor in a similar way that Leonardo DiCaprio's character was inserted into the historical events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic in the movie of the same name. (One perceptive critic described the movie as "Titanic with bombs"). The movie was savaged by the critics, although it was a financial success. To see a reasonably accurate filmed history of Pearl Harbor, see Tora Tora Tora (1970).
1. The battleships U.S.S. Arizona and U.S.S. Oklahoma were destroyed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
2. Are you trying to pull a Pearl Harbor on me?
3. The only way to watch the movie Pearl Harbor is on DVD, with liberal use of the fast forward button.
2. Are you trying to pull a Pearl Harbor on me?
3. The only way to watch the movie Pearl Harbor is on DVD, with liberal use of the fast forward button.
by Eugene206 November 17, 2006
Get the Pearl Harbormug.