Fearman's definitions

Timothy Dalton

Welsh actor. Brought a civil, icy, slightly mental persona to the figure of James Bond 007 that just rocks, no matter what the begrudgers say. Got one okay film and one bum one, which sank his Bond career long before time. Buried the execrable Roger Moore and (as a patriotic Paddy it pains me to say this, but ...) waaaaay better than Pierce Brosnan's poster-boy Bond. Only bettered (maybe) by Daniel Craig in 2006's Casino Royale.

Timothy Dalton. Gave the 007 role everything.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

Tarot cards

Intriguing form of folk art consisting typically of a deck of cards with 22 major trumps and four suits of minor trumps with fourteen cards each, although there are variations on this basic plan. Typically or ideally each card has an illustration of some kind. The variety of decks is considerable, although some are considerably more original in their inspiration (and/or better in their artistry) than others. Poetically resonant and often of use in artistic inspiration. Thought to have originated at least as far back as the late Middle Ages. Sadly done to death by New Agers who insist they are useful for divination, and Christian fundamentalists who put them close to the top of a veeerrry looonnngg list of stuff that will lead you straight to Hell, but still quite interesting.

Wanna see my collection of Tarot cards? I've got about thirty decks.

by Fearman October 1, 2007

Chthulhu

Vast entity seeking to re-enter the stream of terrestrial time-space, as revealed in the visionary works of H. P. Lovecraft. Gibbous, vast, eldritch, gibbering, and infinitely rebulbulous in his extra-terrestrial physics and non-Euclidean geometry. His feelers extend to all the best dinner parties where the unsuspecting taste him in the wine, rip off their clothes and expose the darkest secrets of their splenetic nightmares. The best friend of necrotic occultists everywhere. His friends all call him "Percy". Will sign copies of the Necronomicon for free, with heart-felt dedications ... if you dare look him in his extra-cosmic face.

Chthulhu ... the master of ectopic time.

by Fearman August 31, 2007

moonspin

Something utterly ridiculous, ludicrous and otherwise beyond the pale, thought up either by someone blotto out of their mind trying to make their way home on a moonlit night, or someone impersonating them.

She's trying to give me the same old moonspin about how she couldn't help it, the bottle of Jack Daniels just jumped on her.

More of this moonspin about Creationism and that on the telly.

by Fearman January 15, 2008

frigophilia

The urge to revisit a refrigerator every twenty seconds in the hope that something more appetising will somehow have materialised there in the meantime.

I'm getting frigophilia. I'm hungry, but not that hungry. Basically I'm bored.

by Fearman March 4, 2008

skin job

Derogatory term for replicant or android used in the 1982 Ridley Scott movie "Blade Runner", starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by Philip K. Dick. Think of all the mean-spirited epithets humans have ever flung at each other all rolled into one.

You've still got to waste four more skin jobs, Deckard.

by Fearman October 31, 2007

klingons on the starboard bow

Expression used as a warning by person 1 when someone known mutually to 1 and 2, whom 2 does not wish to meet, comes into view. Don't Look Now, but ..., From a more literal usage in the original series of Star Trek.

Joe: I don't want to meet the Wirrals tonight, okay?
Mike (looking over Joe's shoulder): Umm ... Klingons on the starboard bow.
Joe: They're HERE?! Get me out of here.
Mike: Right this way ...,

by Fearman August 13, 2007