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your call is important to us

Perhaps the biggest bit of corporate and public-sector BS ever foisted upon us as middle- and lower-economic class people. Usually indicates that you'll have to endure ten to thirty minutes of bland wallpaper music or loops of repeated advertisements before a real human voice gets on the phone.
I tried to call my insurance company to find out about their rates for fire insurance, but all I got was "your call is important to us"!
by pentozali December 9, 2008
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Nexium nexus

The point at which you realize that you have to take medication and/or go to the doctor for your heartburn. and/or other gastrointestinal problems.
Ohhhhh, man! My stomach and my chest are really bothering me. I've reached the Nexium nexus!
by pentozali June 30, 2007
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New York method

The application of brute force to make an object budge or to pry it out of a tight container.
The ciecuit board got jammed in the grill from the air conditioner. Get the pliers, Mark. I think we'll need to use the New York method to get that sucker out!
by pentozali December 28, 2005
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25/16 slot

Among Balkan folk dancers, the time of the day when people dance the most difficult of the dances. From 25/16 rhythm, the time signature for "Sedi Donka", a Bulgarian folk dance in which the rhythm is subdivided 7/16 + 7/16 + 11/16: SLOW-quick-quick,SLOW-quick-quick,quick-quick-SLOW-quick-quick. The more challenging dances like this are usually done by a younger crowd.
Leave "Buchimish" for the 25/16 slot. Us older folks aren't up to it!
by pentozali June 27, 2008
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MTA

Many Trains Absent, which is what the acronym MTA (New York) will stand for once they make their service cuts and raise the fare from $2 to $2.50 on buses and subways and from $5 to $7.50 on express buses in June 2009.
Get ready to be packed in sardines every day on the trains---the MTA is zawing us around again!
by pentozali April 2, 2009
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telefungus

The "creeping crud" one tries to avoid while speaking on a public telephone. Usually found on the mouthpiece but may also be found on the handle of the phone or the buttons on the phone panel or left on bottles and snotrags near rhe phone panel.
Yuk! What is this glop on the phone? Ohmygaaaaad, it's a telefungus!
by pentozali May 17, 2006
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pilama yelo

The Lakota (Sioux) way to say "thank you". Pronounced "peel-AH-mah YELL-oh".
In "Dances With Wolves", you'll hear "pilama yelo" said a few times. It means "thank you".
by pentozali May 16, 2007
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