fearman's definitions

rich from the neck up

Used of someone who is living beyond their means. Their wealth is purely in their head and implicit in their attitude.

She can't afford the rent and just bought herself a state-of-the-art computer system on credit. She's rich from the neck up.

by Fearman August 10, 2007

domokun

Little square brown creature with a gaping toothy mouth, born in Japan. Big in Japan, too. For some reason used as a mascot (not, presumably, by the artists who made the domokun) against the perfectly natural, pleasant and healthy practice of masturbation. See also Religion.

Every time you send that fucking picture, God kills a domokun.

by Fearman December 27, 2007

Zaphod Clause

Important precondition for attaining the role of chief of the executive wing of government, not least in the United States. More or less quote/unquote, "You can't become President with an entire brain." From the movie of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Al Gore and John Kerry almost made it, but they were both scuppered by the Zaphod Clause.

by Fearman August 31, 2007

you can't handle the truth

Expression first popularised by Jack Nicholson in the character of Col. Nathan R. Jessep in A Few Good Men (1992, dir. Rob Reiner), when he blows up in court in Tom Cruise's face. Handy exclamation to direct at the computer screen when somebody votes down an eminently rational definition on urbandictionary. Parodied by Sideshow Bob in an episode of The Simpsons ("Pish! I deride your truth-handling abilities!").

Kaffee: I want the truth!
Jessep (yells): You can't handle the truth!

by Fearman April 15, 2008

this is your life and it is ending one minute at a time

Catch-phrase from Chuck Palahniuk's breakthrough novel Fight Club, and the David Fincher movie based on it. This is your life and it is ending one minute at a time. Reminder of mortality, prod in the back to go out and do something with yourself.

This is your life and it is ending one minute at a time, boy.

by Fearman May 28, 2008

cerebrosphere

1. The world of the human intellect, or intellectual culture globally.

2. More locally the atmosphere or ethos of a given academic institution, political movement or other environment in which people come up with and share various ideas.

The instant he walked in the gates and started talking to people he found himself relaxing once more into the cerebrosphere of Cambridge.

I haven't been in the radical feminist cerebrosphere for some time now.

by Fearman March 4, 2008

flashback humour

Indirect breach of the fourth wall at the end of the movie "Fight Club". When the plot comes around to the opening scene again after two hours of flashback, the Narrator (Edward Norton) states he "still hasn't anything to say", and Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) refers to this as "flashback humour".

Any other definitions for flashback humour?

by Fearman December 23, 2007