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Definitions by figleaf23

Foucault's pendulum 

1. a pendulum device named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, used to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.

2. an extremely complicated novel by Umberto Ecco, first published in 1988. Persons successfully reading this book should be given a badge of merit.
Juicy O'Gazem: 'Did you really read all of "Foucault's Pendulum"'

Rod Stiffy: 'Yessirree, I did.'

Juicy O'Gazem: 'Wow, you should get a badge or a medal or something.'
Foucault's pendulum by Figleaf23 January 2, 2009

St. John's 

the capital city of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada.
St. John's is a great town to party in!
St. John's by Figleaf23 January 2, 2009

speak into the microphone 

a phrase used by a man to focus a partner's attention on performing oral sex.
After they got naked, Sally went on talking and chatting for some time. Eventually, Sam had to ask her to speak into the microphone.

thaumaturge 

The greatest thaumaturge of Elizabethan England was Dr. John Dee.
thaumaturge by Figleaf23 January 2, 2009

Red (neck), White (trash) and Blue (collar)

patriotic United Statesians who persistly sacrifice themselves and their families on the altar of right wing ideology
Red (neck), White (trash) and Blue (collar) -- people who elect Republicans to ruin their lives.

pussy-grab

a period of activity defined by the single-minded pursuit of getting as much pussy as possible, no matter what the social or personal consequences
Person A: How did you like visiting St. John's?
Person B: It was great, I was like total pussy-grab.
pussy-grab by figleaf23 January 1, 2009
pronounced "pomm-ee"

Originally an acronym for the status of inmates sent to Australia: 'Prisoner of Mother England'.

At first used by the English to describe Australians (as anyone Australian must, obviously, have come from prison), now in a strange refersal used by Australians to designate anyone from England.
"Oid loik ta waelcum tha pome baastud ta god's awn eu-uth, and ta remoind him we deown't loik stack-ap sticky beeks reound hee."
pome by Figleaf23 January 1, 2009