Fearman's definitions

wake up! time to die

Expression frequently used when working with a slow working computer. From Leon's line in Blade Runner.

Come on, you useless hunk of plastic and silicon, load the sucker! Hurry up and wake up! time to die!

by Fearman November 24, 2007

make me one with everything

What the mystic said to the pizza chef.

"Make me one with everything", the mystic said to the pizza chef. Need I say more?

by Fearman April 11, 2008

Christopher Walken

Quirky and slightly mental-looking Hollywood actor. Hasn't got nearly as many good roles as he should. Look out for him in David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone, Spielberg's Catch Me if you Can or in the movie of Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers.

Watch out. Here comes a Christopher Walken character.

by Fearman December 17, 2007

diamonds on the soles of their shoes

Absolutely filthy rich. From the Paul Simon song title from Graceland (1986).

Look at those nouveaux-riches types at the boarding school on sports day. They want everyone to know they have diamonds on the soles of their shoes.

by Fearman August 7, 2007

so many puppies, so little time

Expression of repressed rage and anger at the world. Taken as a lament that with so many puppies (vulnerable shitheads/valuable commodities/etc) in the vicinity, one does not have the time or freedom to exercise one's creative vigour in destroying the whole goddamned lot of them.

Twenty CVs sent out, nineteen Dear John letters, one ignored. No money. So many puppies, so little time.

by Fearman January 7, 2008

Westboro baptist church

A significant proportion of the population (not many, but enough people) spend their school days whipping other kids, sneering in their faces, tearing up their copybooks, beating up anyone they can while still looking righteous and popular and generally doing everything they can to crush the spirit out of anyone they can get away with so treating. Fortunately, most of them have the grace to leave this childhood unpleasantness behind in due course, and become people of fairness, maturity and integrity who are man or woman enough to, at the very least, apologise to their former victims. And mean it.

And then, alas, there are a pathetic few like the Phelps clan.

Various forms of behaviour unworthy of the most intelligent species on the planet are exemplified, to take two examples, by schoolyard bullies, and by the Westboro Baptist Church.

by Fearman August 6, 2007

Ireland

Twentieth largest island on the planet. West of Great Britain. Home to Brendan Behan, U2 and the original Guinness brewery. Used to get most of the rain in Europe, now thankfully changing due to global warming, proving that it is an ill wind and all that. Exports include the above rock group, an above average slice (for the island's population) of the world's greatest writers, the above dark beverage with a creamy head on, oodles of women with unwanted pregnancies, a few deliveries of Semtex, milk, beef, and formerly, streams of missionaries. Currently is the grip of a "tiger economy" which doesn't seem so feline if you leave out the wobbly property market. Wouldn't be such a bad place if it wasn't for Limerick and a couple of places in the Six Counties.

Ireland. Last chance to make a will before the Atlantic.

by Fearman December 26, 2007