fearman's definitions
Expression used in resentment as a reason for doing something deemed unethical when one knows one is going to be accused of doing that thing anyway, particularly when there is much to be gained by doing it.
They are going to accuse me of doing nothing and/or of working and drawing the dole at the same time, so I might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.
by Fearman December 28, 2007
Get the might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lambmug. And then the Lamb opened the Seventh Seal: and yeay, I saw upon a white horse all the little children who wouldn't eat their greens, and all the chunky little greens that they had ever refused to eat fell from the firmament upon the earth in a great cascade of green, and the children descended from the back of the great white horse, and there was weeping and gnashing of teeth and quite a bit of chewing until the sounding of the final trumpets.
The above is from the Abroccolipse of St. Elmo the Vegetarian.
by Fearman February 23, 2008
Get the Abroccolipsemug. Same essential mistake, only taking up four times as much of the day. Also a place that tries four times as hard to take the credit when a former student takes over his daddy's job.
He used to attend a day school, but that wasn't disastrous enough so he went to boarding school instead.
by Fearman May 28, 2008
Get the boarding schoolmug. Expression used of someone detested and now safely dead, to damn them with faint praise. From the 1989 movie version of Batman, directed by Tim Burton.
Joker (Jack Nicholson) on TV address:
Joker here. Now you fellas have said some pretty mean things. Some of which were true, under that fiend Boss Grissom. He was a thief, and a terrorist. On the other hand he had a tremendous singing voice. He's dead now, and he's left me in charge.
Joker here. Now you fellas have said some pretty mean things. Some of which were true, under that fiend Boss Grissom. He was a thief, and a terrorist. On the other hand he had a tremendous singing voice. He's dead now, and he's left me in charge.
by Fearman March 4, 2008
Get the he had a tremendous singing voicemug. I'll have to learn the next three chapters off strawcab or the geography teacher will have my ass in detention for the rest of the year.
by Fearman May 24, 2008
Get the strawcabmug. Morbid or irrational fear of pink elephants. A motivating factor in many Prohibitionist or Temperance movements.
by Fearman March 6, 2008
Get the rosaproboscideaphobiamug. A pixel on an LCD screen that stays a single bright colour irrespective of the surrounding background. Can be at least partly toned out by stroking the relevant area of the screen.
by Fearman November 25, 2007
Get the Dead Pixelmug.