yet another josh cohen's definitions

pancake

1. Comedian Mitch Hedberg refered to "pancaking" as starting out strong, but then halfway through your act, the audience is sick of you. Kind of like when you eat a lot of pancakes; they're great at first, but by the end you're like "jeez, that's too much".

2. Street for "crack". (See Family Guy)

1. Most "featured" comedians -- not headliners, but the people who come before them -- pancake halfway through their act.

2. "Pancakes." -Stewie

by Yet Another Josh Cohen August 23, 2006

Radiohead

an admittedly-talented band that is overplayed on every alterna-rock station; tends to overdo the political stuff, which detracts from their music

I swear I heard at least one Radiohead or Thom Yorke song on Ethel every hour yesterday.

by Yet Another Josh Cohen September 15, 2006

noodle incident

Something that happened in the past. No one talks about it, no one knows exactly what it was. But everyone agrees that it was something embarassing or bad.

From "Calvin and Hobbes".

(At a 20-year High School Reunion)
Wife: Why is everyone looking at you funny?
Husband: They must not have forgotten the noodle incident.
Wife: You never told me about that. What was it?
Husband: ... ... it was... the noodle incident. (looks away shamefully)
Wife: (goes off to find someone to explain this to her)

by Yet Another Josh Cohen September 22, 2006

manage expectations

corporate doublespeak for "we don't want to do our best, so let's make sure people think we're doing our best without revealing that we're not doing our best" -- anything in which you have to "manage expectations" means you could probably devote more time and effort to making things better, but you just don't feel like it

Marketing has to manage expectations of our new software package so that the boss doesn't make us do any more work.

by Yet Another Josh Cohen January 13, 2007

lolcat

A photo of a cat doing a seemingly-innocuous thing, with large text superimposed. Sort of an offshoot of the orly owl. Also called cat macros

"I made you a cookie but I eated it", "ceiling cat is watching you masturbate", and "I see what you did there" are good examples of lolcats.

by Yet Another Josh Cohen February 11, 2007

cat macro

(Also lolcat.) A picture of a cat doing something seemingly-innocuous, with words photoshopped over the picture. Probably an offshoot of the orly owl.

"I see what you did there", "oh, hi, I upgraded your ram", and "aggressive cat is aggressive/defensive cat is defensive" are three popular cat macros.

by Yet Another Josh Cohen February 11, 2007

cheezburger

(verb form) to turn a photo into a lolcat-style image

Oh, that looks just like Monorail Cat! Quick, cheezburger it so you can jump on the bandwagon!

by Yet Another Josh Cohen January 16, 2008