Adj. Something cheap and cheerful or useless.
I recall it being used from about 1950, defined as 'cake and arse'.
From Wikpedia:-
It derived from C&A, an international chain of clothing stores, with its head office in Brussels. It has branches in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Its brands include Clockhouse, Westbury and Your Sixth Sense. The company was founded by the German brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer in 1841 in the Netherlands as a textile company, taking its name from their initials. For many years C&A stores were also a standard fixture of high streets in the United Kingdom. However, the company's strategy of selling budget clothes from high-rent city centre stores made it vulnerable to a new breed of competitors operating in cheaper, out-of-town locations; these included Matalan and the rapidly expanding clothing operations of supermarket chains such as Tesco and ASDA. In 2000, C&A announced its intention to withdraw from the British market; the last UK stores closed in 2001.
Around 1980 there was a joke that women's knickers from this store were printed with a C on the front an A on the rear, (signifying 'cunt' and 'arse'), to show which way round they were to be worn.
I recall it being used from about 1950, defined as 'cake and arse'.
From Wikpedia:-
It derived from C&A, an international chain of clothing stores, with its head office in Brussels. It has branches in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Its brands include Clockhouse, Westbury and Your Sixth Sense. The company was founded by the German brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer in 1841 in the Netherlands as a textile company, taking its name from their initials. For many years C&A stores were also a standard fixture of high streets in the United Kingdom. However, the company's strategy of selling budget clothes from high-rent city centre stores made it vulnerable to a new breed of competitors operating in cheaper, out-of-town locations; these included Matalan and the rapidly expanding clothing operations of supermarket chains such as Tesco and ASDA. In 2000, C&A announced its intention to withdraw from the British market; the last UK stores closed in 2001.
Around 1980 there was a joke that women's knickers from this store were printed with a C on the front an A on the rear, (signifying 'cunt' and 'arse'), to show which way round they were to be worn.
by Segilla October 07, 2006
Person 1: Y helo thar
Person 2: Y helo thar
Person 3: Y helo thar
Person 4: Y helo thar
Person 5: C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!!!!
Person 2: Y helo thar
Person 3: Y helo thar
Person 4: Y helo thar
Person 5: C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!!!!
by the vodyanoi September 08, 2004
Baldrick: I've done "C".
Blackadder: Right. Let's have it, then.
Baldrick: Right. "Big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in."
Blackadder: Right. Let's have it, then.
Baldrick: Right. "Big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in."
by RDNSK April 15, 2011
A pill that contains various types of cough medicinethat will cause you to hallucinate or trip out. There are no effects to your body such as being adicted how ever it does kill brain cells.
by MikeholeT August 03, 2006
In continuation with the definition given in (2), there are a further set of C++ developers who aspire to have such absolute dominion over their development that they actually rework the compiler they are using so that the syntax they write is compiled in the exact way they want. This group of elitists make those C++ programmers as detailed in definition (2) look like a pack of uneducated noobs. They, like those in (2) always insist that everyone must go through a horrifically painful set of years of digesting documentation to become Jedi's.
Jedi's have long forgotten what its like to be a novice programmer and are often arrogant pricks about anyone asking them questions on any level. Just don't ask them for help - Jedi's only talk shop with other Jedi's, and that includes Masters.
Jedi's have long forgotten what its like to be a novice programmer and are often arrogant pricks about anyone asking them questions on any level. Just don't ask them for help - Jedi's only talk shop with other Jedi's, and that includes Masters.
Situation of a Person A (jedi) talking to Person B (master)
Person B - 'I'm trying to accelarate this algorithm, however no matter what I do, I can't get this data values to split right so that I can run them in parallel'
Person A - 'Why don't you just modify the memory function associated with it?' (always asked as if its the most obvious thing in the world)
Person B - 'Wouldn't know where to start with that one - how do I go about it?, any pointers?'
Person A (In the most drained, how the fuck could you not understand this condescending tone) - 'I'll send you the documentation'
Note the documentation component, even if its a one line fix C++ masters and jedi's especially will 99% of the time point you to the documentation, which in general was written by Jedi's for Jedi's and is fucken useless for someone starting out.
Person B - 'I'm trying to accelarate this algorithm, however no matter what I do, I can't get this data values to split right so that I can run them in parallel'
Person A - 'Why don't you just modify the memory function associated with it?' (always asked as if its the most obvious thing in the world)
Person B - 'Wouldn't know where to start with that one - how do I go about it?, any pointers?'
Person A (In the most drained, how the fuck could you not understand this condescending tone) - 'I'll send you the documentation'
Note the documentation component, even if its a one line fix C++ masters and jedi's especially will 99% of the time point you to the documentation, which in general was written by Jedi's for Jedi's and is fucken useless for someone starting out.
by mypesudonym March 21, 2011