JerseyJohn's definitions

Slenderella

"Slender" plus the feminine ending "ella". (1) A brand name for various products: a line of slimming lingerie for the overweight, a line of diet foods and a chain of reducing spas. (2)A slim woman, especially one of the anorexic fashion model type.

Used in the second sense in the early sixties by Tom Wolfe in the essay "The Secret Vice", which referred to one of a certain a yuppie lawyer's many girlfriends as "one of those scientific slenderellas he always has hanging around ..."

by JerseyJohn May 2, 2006

husband chair

A chair in a womens' clothes store/department for a guy to sit in and wait while his wife or girlfriend shops.

You go ahead and shop. I'll just be over here in the husband chair.

by JerseyJohn October 25, 2007

tojo

Hideki Tojo was the Japanese Prime Minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor. "Tojo" became the personification of the "evil Japanese" in anti-Japanese propaganda during WW II. His caricature was often shown in posters with outsized ears, squinty eyes and enormous buck teeth, "thanking" Americans who failed to recycle metal, wasted food or did other things that were detrimental to the war effort. He also appeared in several pretty racist Warner Brothers cartoons. After the war (and Tojo's execution), "Tojo" pretty much died out as an anti-Japanese slur.

Tojo says "thanks for throwing away that can"! (Americans were supposed to recycle steel cans to support the war effort)

by JerseyJohn September 14, 2007

pie-cost

Part of the dumb "pie-cost" joke.

Joker: Too bad we don't have a pie-cost.

Victim: What's a pie-cost?

Joker: Oh, about six bucks ... (rim-shot)

(also, same joke, using "hen-way" (oh, about 3 pounds ...)

by JerseyJohn August 23, 2007