"Professor Smith I just want to appologize for missing last class. Ya' see I was sitting in the class before this one and could just feel a shit-astrophe brewing. Needless to say, I had to run back to my dorm. I'm sure you'll understand."
An encounter with an individual suffering from swamp-ass causing great and often sudden harm or embarrassment to the individual and /or situation; a dis-ass-ter.
A person who spends way too much money on a piece of glass inside of a tube, then gets easily depressed by a number being slightly different from what they want, leading said person to spend even more money, going into a bigger and bigger hole.
" Hey, your brother's an astrophotographer? " - Person 1
" Yeah, he is. " - Person 2 " God, I'm so sorry for your loss. You must be devastated. " - Person 1