chime in the slime

Local term for a digital counter with a green readout submerged in the River Liffey immediately upstream of O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, Ireland some time in the mid-1990s and intended to count away the remaining seconds to the start of the year 2000 CE. Within a matter of weeks it was clogged up with scum and dirt, broke down and had to be removed.
What do you think was better: the stiletto in the ghetto or the chime in the slime?
by Fearman November 14, 2007
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prayer capsule

An intriguing marriage of technology and religion imagined in 1972 by prog rock outfit Genesis, In "Supper's Ready" from the album Foxtrot.
And even though I'm feeling good / Something tells me I'd better / Activate my prayer capsule.
by Fearman November 05, 2007
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ophthalmophobia

Fear of going to see an eye specialist.
He's got a bad case of ophthalmophobia. He's not going to have his eyes checked. He'd rather have cataracts.
by Fearman August 03, 2007
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tautology

A tautology is a reiteration of a term using one or more different successive synonyms.
Examples of tautology:

It was a wet rainy day with lots of precipitation.
She is a female woman of the opposite sex, John.
We could see some dilapidated ruins.
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hooker

1. A prostitute, specifically a term used in the United States to describe a woman who sells her sex on the streets or roads as opposed to a higher-class call girl, brothel worker or one man's mistress.

2. A traditional sailing vessel most often associated with Galway Bay, Ireland. Typically with a broad, stout timber hull and red or occasionally black sails. Used to transport turf (peat), hay, livestock and other goods along the coast and out to the Aran and other islands. Connection to the first definition of hooker is hazy at best.
You can pick up a hooker for fifty bucks on the way out of town.

The Galway Hookers used to run a race between Galway port and Kinvara.
by Fearman December 29, 2007
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twip

What a wabbit takes when he wides in a twain.
Wabbit takes a twip in a twain.
by Fearman November 05, 2007
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Actually written before the Revolution, by the Okhrana or secret police of the old Tsarist regime, round about the year 1900. Popularised by the later Communist leadership, the Nazis and others. Up there with the environmentalist "Chief Seattle" speech, the volley of excuses for the 2003 war in Iraq, Piltdown Man and the Donation of Constantine as one of the great fakes of history.
If you are suffering from insomnia, might I recommend you read this copy of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion?
by Fearman June 16, 2007
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