fearman's definitions

school

Place young people are confined for much of their childhood and adolescence to have any subversive interest in intellectual pursuits or sport ruthlessly beaten out of them. If they pull through with their sanity halfway intact, they are ready for university ... or anything else that could happen.

You're still in school? My sympathies.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

the kiss that keeps on kissing

The kiss that keeps on kissing is also known as herpes.

Herpes. The kiss that keeps on kissing.

by Fearman May 24, 2008

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

Bounderby

Someone who cynically grandstands about their unpleasant childhood, by way of fishing for pity or giving an apologia for their heartless or anti-social behaviour. Very trendy in a postmodernist climate. From the character in Dickens' "Hard Times".

Look at that kid on the TV saying that he wouldn't have killed the kid on a joyride if his own mummy had loved him a bit more. What a perfect little Bounderby.

by Fearman August 7, 2007

acorn dance

A dance that symbolises an entire way of life that was supposedly very intense, meaningful and sensual, and intrinsic to the human and natural worlds, but that was in fact never lived. The literal dance itself never existed, and those who pretend to knowledge of it cannot agree on what the moves were. More generally, a myth in the most amorphous state possible.

Jane spent her college years trying to find references to the acorn dance.

Everything is an acorn dance and nothing is.

Someone wrote a thesis on Renaissance painting and the acorn dance. It was rather sensual stuff and I still couldn't make head nor tail of it.

by Fearman April 13, 2008

I mumblypeg your garden

I humbly beg your pardon, in rhyming slang. Ironic version.

Excuse me! I mumblypeg your garden!

by Fearman October 23, 2007

Bjork

Pixie-like rock starlet born in Iceland in 1969 or some such. Died in a car crash in 1990. All subsequent appearances, including those in concert before half the population of Iceland, have been computer-generated. IT'S TWOOO!!!

Bjork is appearing in concert tonight. Every last pixel of her. Gorgeous.

by Fearman November 22, 2007