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Definitions by ring-tailed roarer

kill two seals with one club 

Accomplish two goals or achieve two ends with one action or plan.
She: The boss is incredibly efficient at organizing his time and conserving his energy.
He: Yeah! His secret is that he knows how to kill two seals with one club.
She: What???
He: You know, accomplish two things at once.
She: You're gross!
He: Thank you.

making the wild ox moan

Having energetic and very noisy sex.
She: Wow, the people in the room next to us are really going at it! You can probably hear them in the lobby.

He: Yep, they're sure making the wild ox moan!

give the brown note

Tell a story or otherwise behave in such a way as to make the listener of observer feel like crapping their pants.
He: It was awful, she spent an hour telling me about her boyfriend and their problems. I almost crapped myself with boredom.
She: Yeah, a couple of days ago she did the same to me; I think she enjoys off-loading her personal life on other people -- to give the brown note.

veal crates 

Several tiny cubicles crammed into one office as desks for graduate students. Like calves being fattened for slaughter, graduate students confined to veal crates can experience chronic stress so extreme as to require medication. Veal-crated students frequently drop our of graduate school after paying tuition for several years, thus helping to ensure that the university's coffers are filled while gaining nothing from the graduate experience but horrible memories and a few useless ideas.
Graduate Student: THIS is my office!!!?? I can't believe it; I'm a PhD student and this is supposed to be a great university. These cubicles are only four feet wide. I'll go insane.

Second Graduate Student: Welcome to the veal crates.
veal crates by ring-tailed roarer January 28, 2010

New Year's Die 

The awful, awful hangover that you get after drinking excessively on New Year's Eve.
He: God, I feel awful! I shouldn't have drunk so much at Bob's New Year's Eve party. I feel like death
She: Yeah, you've got a bad case of New Year's Die.
New Year's Die by ring-tailed roarer December 27, 2009

thermoskeptic 

Someone who does not believe in global warming.
He: So Bob's not going to hear Al Gore speak this evening?
She: No, he thinks all the talk of global warming is crap - he's a thermoskeptic.

kanye west

A fart that you let go in the shower, just before you get out, and which makes you feel gross and dirty again, as if you hadn't had a shower at all.
He: A horrible thing happened to me this morning: just as I was getting out of the shower, I let a fart that swirled around the shower stall and made me feel filthy -- as if I hadn't had a shower and needed to shower again.
Friend: I know what you mean, you poor guy: you let a kanye west.
kanye west by ring-tailed roarer October 10, 2009