Tel's definitions

Well

In many towns in Ireland, 'well' is a salutation or greeting. Having used the expression all my life, I've never been able to figure out whether it's a kindly-meant enquiry as to whether or not all is well with the person so addressed, or simply an expectant demand for news updates - in my hometown, it always felt like the beginning of an interrogation!

Well, girl, haven't seen you in ages.

by Tel September 17, 2005

the butterfly effect

when you poo your pants and sit down creating a butterfly like wingspan across your arse!

ben shit himself in his garden and got a huge butterfly effect

by tel February 16, 2005

SMEF

Sudden massive existence failure. The instantaneous dissappearance of a great deal of stuff.

Large parts of S.E.Asia experienced SMEF due to the tsunami, they /it was SMEFed.

by Tel March 29, 2005

intellectual whore

An intellectual whore is someone who sells out their intellect to any subject, however unlikely, undeserving or unworthy, in the pursuit of personal gain / kudos / attention or basically just to show off.

My incredibly clever friend who used to write underground 'zines is now making millions marketing merchandise to the 'youth'. He is such an intellectual whore - he'll lay his brain down in anybody's bed if the price is right.

by Tel March 11, 2005

lagging

the art of being absolutely wasted its a truly beautiful state

i got well lagging last night!

by tel January 27, 2005

Scarlet

In Dublin, Ireland, scarlet is slang for embarassed - more mortified than embarassed, a kind of huge, overwhelming, blush to your toes type of embarassed. In the Dublin accent, it sounds more like "scar-leh" with a lot of emphasis on the first syllable

There I was dancing away and all the time me skirt was caught up in me knickers - I was SCAR-leh!

by Tel July 15, 2008

literary masturbation

A lot of so-called journalism today is literary masturbation where, instead of researching a subject and writing an informed and stimulating article, the writer has a wank-fest of verbal indulgence expressing their personal opinion. This is forgiveable in the very young who may be playing with language and style and have lived so shortly their lack of experience absolves them from such a waste of words. You have to make mistakes to learn. The real damage occurs when this behaviour lasts past college!

He's too lazy to engage with the subject so he just lays back and verbosely self-indulges - it's a shame, really, because he can string sentences together well; if only they had content....

by Tel March 24, 2005