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Numbers On a Screen

What money is. Also, what you say to rationalize blowing all your money on booze/women/toys/coke. Replaces "little pieces of paper," which is deprecated.
Guy 1: Shit, $100 for four shots of Patron?!
Guy 2: Man who gives a fuck, money is just Numbers On a Screen!
Guy 1: You right.
by bbbu_darkness July 22, 2011
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Text_on_the_screen

One of the key members of the MLIA commenting community. Awesome beyond belief.
n00b: I love this post!

Text_on_the_screen: n00b.
by Sea Kitten June 15, 2010
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Figure on a Screen

A step below from a friend, more like a person you talk to for shits and giggles.
Luv you are a figure on a screen while I consider John to be an actual friend.
by texasindian May 12, 2018
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Figure on a Screen

A person who is considered to be lesser then a friend.

Someone who does not hold value to you as a friend, but you still communicate with them by social media means or even by face to face contact.
This situation involves 3 people: Person 1, Person 2 , and Person 3. Person 1 is speaking to person two in this scenario

Person 1: I would be very upset and would care a lot if Person 3 did not speak with me anymore, however if Person 2 did not speak to me, I would not care because they are a figure on a screen to me and not an actual friend.
by texasindian May 18, 2018
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Name that thing on the screen before it disappears

A language game played by Brown University students in which an intricately timed powerpoint presentation displays images of clothes, food, etc. while students attempt to name the articles in a foreign language before they pass from one side of the display to the other.
Diego: And what is this.
Joe: der Handschuhe!!!
Diego: ...die Handschuhe?
Joe: Oh...yeah. I love "Name that thing on the screen before it disappears"!
by fivestarfolds March 18, 2011
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Word on the screen

The equivalent of “word on the street” but, a rumor or piece of information currently being circulated on the internet.
Word on the screen is, Obama is demanding to see Trump’s elementary school diploma.
by Wordonthescreen March 9, 2019
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as useful as a fly screen on a submarine

This saying was conceived by Bob and his buddy Mel while on a cycle ride to Portsmouth Dock Yard via Gosport in the Summer of 1963. They passed by a naval shipyard and noticed a beached and apparently discarded mini (aka: one-person) submarine in the assembly yard. The yard gate was open, so the guys checked out the sub and noticed that it had an open hatch upon which had been placed a fly screen (of the household variety), beggaring the question: "what is as useful as a fly screen on a submarine"??? Ironically, someone had punched a hole through the screen through which a horde of wasps had flown in through the hatch and nested. The thought came to mind of how annoying it would be - after closing up the submarine - to have the wasps buzzing around inside the sub...

Following immigration to Canada in 1975, one of the guys adjusted the saying to: "as useful as a screen door on a submarine" to accommodate Vancouver Island / BC / Canada / North America vernacular (which didn't recognize the term "fly screen").
the act of a Central Bank 'printing' fiat money, ie: quantitative easing, in an attempt to curb inflation is "as useful as a fly screen on a submarine"
by Myrddin Wyllt October 26, 2022
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