good point well made

Said to acknowledge someone else's explanation of something and thank them for it, with the added undertone of acknowledging that yeah now that you think about it, really that should have been obvious all along and you were being stupid for even asking the question in the first place.

An early (and possibly the first) appearance of the phrase, with this undertone, occurs in a joke in the 1992 episode "Holoship" of British sci-fi comedy TV series Red Dwarf, with the following exchange:

The Cat : Why don't we drop the defensive shields?

Kryten : A superlative suggestion, sir. With just two minor flaws. One, we don't have any defensive shields. And two, we don't have any defensive shields. Now I realise that technically speaking that's only one flaw but I thought that it was such a big one that it was worth mentioning twice.

The Cat : Good point, well made.

Alice: Are you coming round to my house tonight?

Bob: No, I'm away on holiday. I told you yesterday.

Alice: Good point well made.

by Xenocat104 October 31, 2023

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Get the good point well mademug.

barn points

A superior form of currency. Can be used all around the worlds.

I got barn points from the barn so i can now get ice cream.

by BelloJello January 20, 2018

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Get the barn pointsmug.

Zero point

The name given to what we know as "frozen in time"

Chad: if zero point was to happen would we even remember it?

Matson Ray Parker: who else high af rn??

by Itanimulli April 24, 2020

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Get the Zero pointmug.

zero-point-once

1. One-tenth of a time.
2. (in mathematics) Used to describe a quotient between 0.1 and 0.2.

I ran around the track zero-point-once, then I got tired.
“Seven goes into 1 zero-point-once, with a remainder of 0.3.”

(Said by someone on Numberphile, a channel on YouTube.)

by Yamato Yamamoto May 6, 2022

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