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Definitions by Yet Another Josh Cohen

A photo of a cat doing a seemingly-innocuous thing, with large text superimposed. Sort of an offshoot of the orly owl. Also called cat macros
"I made you a cookie but I eated it", "ceiling cat is watching you masturbate", and "I see what you did there" are good examples of lolcats.
lolcat by Yet Another Josh Cohen February 11, 2007

cat macro 

(Also lolcat.) A picture of a cat doing something seemingly-innocuous, with words photoshopped over the picture. Probably an offshoot of the orly owl.
"I see what you did there", "oh, hi, I upgraded your ram", and "aggressive cat is aggressive/defensive cat is defensive" are three popular cat macros.
cat macro by Yet Another Josh Cohen February 11, 2007

manage expectations 

corporate doublespeak for "we don't want to do our best, so let's make sure people think we're doing our best without revealing that we're not doing our best" -- anything in which you have to "manage expectations" means you could probably devote more time and effort to making things better, but you just don't feel like it
Marketing has to manage expectations of our new software package so that the boss doesn't make us do any more work.

noodle incident 

Something that happened in the past. No one talks about it, no one knows exactly what it was. But everyone agrees that it was something embarassing or bad.

From "Calvin and Hobbes".
(At a 20-year High School Reunion)
Wife: Why is everyone looking at you funny?
Husband: They must not have forgotten the noodle incident.
Wife: You never told me about that. What was it?
Husband: ... ... it was... the noodle incident. (looks away shamefully)
Wife: (goes off to find someone to explain this to her)

Radiohead 

an admittedly-talented band that is overplayed on every alterna-rock station; tends to overdo the political stuff, which detracts from their music
I swear I heard at least one Radiohead or Thom Yorke song on Ethel every hour yesterday.
Radiohead by Yet Another Josh Cohen September 15, 2006
1. Comedian Mitch Hedberg refered to "pancaking" as starting out strong, but then halfway through your act, the audience is sick of you. Kind of like when you eat a lot of pancakes; they're great at first, but by the end you're like "jeez, that's too much".

2. Street for "crack". (See Family Guy)
1. Most "featured" comedians -- not headliners, but the people who come before them -- pancake halfway through their act.

2. "Pancakes." -Stewie
pancake by Yet Another Josh Cohen August 23, 2006

stripmining 

the act of purchasing a trial membership to a pornographic website, then downloading as much content as possible in that period of time before declining to renew your subscription
Dude, that site has some awesome sex videos on it. Let's go halfsies on a membership and do some stripmining!