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pull a river 

1) To open the most serious barrel of whoop ass imaginable like River Tam does on the planet Miranda when she’s locked in a room with a bunch of Reavers and goes mentally medieval on all of them.

2) To win a hand at Texas Hold Em only with the help of the last card.

3) To drink almost continually from a keg of beer.

4) To perform a great feat of strength, like the fifth labor of Hercules in which he diverts an entire river by hand.

5) To die young and end a promising career, a la River Phoenix.
Whoa, did you see Adam pull a river last night? He drank like sixteen pints then fell down like he was dead. I love that dood.
pull a river by Lexical October 15, 2007

pull a river 

1) To open the most serious barrel of whoop ass imaginable like River Tam does on the planet Miranda when she’s locked in a room with a bunch of Reavers and goes mentally medieval on all of them.

2) To win a hand at Texas Hold Em only with the help of the last card.

3) To drink almost continually from a keg of beer.

4) To perform a great feat of strength, like the fifth labor of Hercules in which he diverts an entire river by hand.

5) To die young and end a promising career, a la River Phoenix.
Whoa, did you see Adam pull a river last night? He drank like sixteen pints then fell down like he was dead. I love that dood.
pull a river by Lexical October 15, 2007

then I rolled a five and a two... 

An expression said to someone or about someone who is talking for far too long about a topic that no one around understands or is interested in.

If the long-winded bore hears you, her or she will probably say, "Yes, that’s exactly right," even though rolling a five and a two has nothing to do with that they are talking about.
RIMMER: Anyway, to cut a long story short I threw a five and a four which beat his three and a two, another double six followed by a double four and a double five. After he'd thrown a three and a two I threw a six and a three.

LISTER: Rimmer, can't you tell the story is not gripping me? I'm in a state of non-grippedness, I am completely smegging ungripped. Shut the smeg up.

RIMMER: Don't you want to hear the Risk story?

LISTER: That's what I've been saying for the last fifteen minutes.

RIMMER: But I thought that was because I hadn't got to the really interesting bit...

LISTER: What really interesting bit?

RIMMER: Well! Then I rolled a five and a two...

buffyism 

An expression, way of speaking, or quote that has come into common usage or been popularized by the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Examples include wig out, sitch, and adding the suffix -age to almost any word. Asking a question with an adjective followed by much is another example, as in, "Morbid, much?"

According to online forums, many people use entire quotes from the show in the daily conversation. Popular examples include "Bored, now," (said in a slow languorous voice) "What’s your childhood trauma?" and "Your logic does not resemble our earth logic."

A buffyism can also be any quote from the program that shows characters at their most witty, usually bending the English language to comic effect.
"You're a vampire. Oh, I'm sorry. Was that an offensive term? Should I say undead American?"

"To make you a vampire, they have to suck your blood. Then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing."

"I'm just gonna go home, lie down, and listen to country music. The music of pain."

"Apparently Buffy has decided the problem with the English language is all those pesky words. You. Angel. Big. Smoochies?"

-Buffyisms
buffyism by Lexical October 15, 2007

buffyisms 

The plural form of a buffyism. Expressions, ways of speaking, or quotes that have come into common usage or been popularized by the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"We're your bosom friends, the friends of your bosom."

"Buffy. I believe the sub-text here is rapidly becoming... text."

"I'm gonna do what any man would do about it. Something damn manly."

"Ah, everyone, the dead guy's all puddly now."

-Buffyisms
buffyisms by Lexical October 15, 2007

norehedron  

"A norehedron is a many splendoured thing." –Bill Nye, The Science Guy
norehedron by Lexical October 14, 2007

ainamania 

An intense and unreasonable desire to create palindromes.
"Trudeaumania and Ainamania. Two manias that have got things backwards." – Stockwell Day
ainamania by Lexical October 14, 2007