Israeli slang for a non-combatant soldier who serves his nation by doing secretarial work, clerking, counting inventory, or some other "job"-like function. Generally used with a hint of derision, as if the jobnik is lazier than a fighter.
Female form: jobnikit.
Plural form: jobnikim.
You want to be a jobnik? That's gonna be so boring, doing that for three years.
1. A town in England mentioned in Monty Python.
2. A town in Westchester named after the town in England by founder Caleb Heathcote in 1703. It is known for 5 things:
-The "Scarsdale Diet" and the subsequent murder of the Doctor who came up w/ it.
-A place of residence for both Linda McCartney and Yoko Ono during their childhoods.
-One of top 5 schools in Westchester (w/ a 100% graduation rate into universities and colleges).
-VERY high real estate prices due to above.
-Severe marijuana and alcohol problems among most high schoolers, which led to an unfortunate Homecoming dance which was filled with pools of vomit and 5 hospitalized teens due to binge drinking before the dance.
1. -So you're wife's been around, eh? Eh? Knowwhatimean?
-Yes. She's from Scarsdale.
-SAY NO MORE!
–Monty Python.
2. We'll buy a new house… in Scarsdale!
–Friends
3. If I wanted to hear childish bickering i'd visit my grandparents in Scarsdale!
–Laws of Attraction
Seven minutes later than real time. A comment on how classes at Harvard start 7 minutes after they are listed (example: at 10:07 instead of at 10:00) to allow time for students who must cross the campus from one class to another.
TF: Tim, you're late for section.
Tim: But it's only 4:02? Come on, what about Harvard Time?
Australian Slang: A female bartender who takes her clothes off if she collects enough in tips. Common in the city of Kalgoorlie.
It’s this diverse mix of customers who have all had a beer with a skimpy that makes the Kalgoorlie skimpy scene so unique, according to Wild West Saloon Bar manager and former skimpy Nicky who first came to Kalgoorlie to work five years ago during her university holidays. - The Kalgoorlie Miner
synonymous with "shooting fish in a barrel," relating to doing a task, often involving hunting or destroying an enemy, that is painfully easy.
Should not be used due to the inherent image of animal cruelty. Stick to the fish and barrel.
Shooting down enemy planes from an F-22 Raptor is like clubbing baby seals. It's that easy.
Buy a
clubbing baby seals
mug!
Fear of crabs (the sea-creature, not the disease). From the Greek root kabouros, meaning crab, and phobos, meaning fear.
Kabourophobia makes going to aquariums or tide pools rather difficult.
A place where you come to have waffles and to think. For you must have waffles and you must think. And to think, you must have waffles.
Warning: Do not bring your bitch to the waffle hut (or, in the TV version, your beast)
We must have waffles. We must ALL have waffles, forthwith! - Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr III
