Fearman's definitions

his therapy was going nowhere

Expression used of someone who has met a sad end in fact or fiction. After a line from Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris's "The Silence of the Lambs", on the subject of Benjamin Raspail. Lecter had Raspail over for dinner and later commented, "Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere."

He jumped off a cliff and blew himself up with a bellyful of dynamite halfway down. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

mime

Someone who, once arrested, has the right to remain silent.

As a mime artist, you have rights.

by Fearman December 16, 2007

duttyology

Branch of the sciences with which everyone is of course familiar and which already has coffee-table books devoted to it, but which has yet to be satisfactorily defined. It is therefore incredibly easy to award yourself a doctorate in duttyology. In a postmodern world in particular, duttyologists can multiply like rabbits.

As soon as I had even heard of the word, I had instantly awarded myself an advanced doctorate with honours in duttyology.

by Fearman November 19, 2007

jenga

Game played using wooden blocks three times as long as they are wide. The blocks are stacked in a square tower with three side by side in each floor, aligned at right angles to those above and below. The players take it in turns to remove one block per turn from the tower. The loser is the one who makes the tower topple.

I love playing jenga. Especially the satisfying crash when it all comes down.

by Fearman April 11, 2008

Xena

1. Drop-dead gorgeous babe who turned from the ways of evil to become a warrior princess in ancient Greece (televised version), and fought off various sneaky types and CG divinities. Played by Lucy Lawless, who is almost as gorgeous. Fought with a ring-shaped discus weapon and her own considerable wits. Had a girlfriend, Gabrielle, played by Renee O'Connor. You became Xena's lover with the skill of a champion and the luck of the gods, and if you messed her about she'd slice your head off and feed it to the Minotaur.

2. 1500-mile diameter dwarf planet orbiting the Sun at 38 to 98 times Earth's distance every 557 Earth years, accompanied by at least one moon called Gabrielle in honour of the undying couple of the TV series. So named unofficially on their discovery; these objects have since been renamed Eris and Dysnomia, after a Greek goddess and her daughter demon of lawlessness, indicating that the International Astronomical Union has at best a subtle sense of humour.

1. If Xena comes to kill you, consider yourself honoured.

2. It's colder than a polar bear's ass on Xena.

by Fearman May 24, 2008

sometimes you eat the bear

Sometimes you eat the bear ... and sometimes the bear eats you. Expression describing the bipolar nature of life, the universe and everything, popularised among other places in the movie The Big Lebowski and fifty percent proven, at any rate, by the life of Timothy Treadwell.

Well, dude, sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. But why d'ya have to use so many cuss words along they way?

by Fearman April 1, 2008

come in six-packs

A class of people who come in six-packs are cheap, contemptible, anti-social or worthless.

Look at those hooligans hanging around the town square looking for trouble. They come in six-packs.

by Fearman August 7, 2007