Definitions by Tank Miller

Shoe-Sock-Foot 

the Hungarian version of Rock-Paper-Scissors. Shoe covers sock. Sock covers foot. Foot stinks up shoe.

The kids wanted to play "I Love Lucy", so first they played Shoe-Sock-Foot to see who had to be Ethel.

Shoe-Sock-Foot by Tank Miller April 24, 2024

getting on my pancreas 

when someone or something is particularly pleasing or agreeable; the opposite of "getting on my nerves".

It was late, but still I was sad for dinner to end because she was really getting on my pancreas with her stories about yelling, "Hear ye, hear ye ..." during Confession.

getting on my pancreas by Tank Miller January 4, 2023

On the bucket 

Currently experiencing ones menstrual period. This expression originated in a time and place where people spent days sitting on buckets and doing chores due to a lack of sanitary products.

Poor Sophie has her volleyball tournament tomorrow and now she’s on the bucket.

On the bucket by Tank Miller August 16, 2022

some pumpkins 

Unusually good.

I was going to watch the first half of the movie and then go to sleep, but I stayed up well past my bedtime because, as it turns out, The Lives of Others is some pumpkins.

some pumpkins by Tank Miller December 2, 2020

a bucket o' nose hairs 

disappointing.

I had heard good things about the movie Sideways, but it turned out to be a bucket o' nose hairs.

a bucket o' nose hairs by Tank Miller June 13, 2018

ranatra

a unit of odor

I need to air out my apartment because it is about 4.26 ranatras in here.

ranatra by Tank Miller May 26, 2018

mimioflexion

a picture that exhibits recursion i.e., a picture within a picture within a picture ad infinitum. Examples include the Morton's Salt Girl and the Land O' Lakes Lady.

Stephen Colbert and the Miami Dolphins eschew mimioflexion. It's as though they are thumbing their nose (and flippering their snouts) at the world's mimioflexion enthusiasts.

mimioflexion by Tank Miller January 28, 2008