Failure to plan is planning to fail!

The most clever comeback a teacher will ever make. It will be used against you if you forgot to do something.

Mr Broadhead: Where is your commerce book?
Yasmin: I forgot to pack it this morning.
Mr Broadhead: Failure to plan is planning to FAIL! :O
Yasmin: NOOOOOOOOOOO!

by gravedog February 2, 2010

Al Gore Failure Beard

An Al Gore failure beard is the cloak of shame worn by men who have been unemployed for over 90 days and don't have any job leads. I also used it for hopeless people and institutions.

"My dad's job search isn't going well. He is rocking an Al Gore failure beard."

"My buddy got laid off last year, and spends a lot of time on LinkedIn. He'll have to shave his Al Gore failure beard when he finally gets an interview."

"My flight was canceled last night, even though we only had an inch of snow. American Airlines is the Al Gore failure beard of the airline industry."

by PunkRockHR December 18, 2019

Single Point of Failure (SPOF)

The term used in an organization that is commonplace for no apparent reason to explain why leadership only designates ONE person in the whole organization to be the Point of Contact to be able to fix something that is broken. When this is person or entity isn't available the whole organization - or the specific people affected by the problem are at the mercy of this person returning to work to solve the problem. Single Point of Failure or SPOF is commonly used with another term known as FUBAR - (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) because no professional organization would allow a Single Point of Failure to exist.

I'm sorry but we can't fix your computer today because we have a Single Point of Failure (SPOF) in that department. Pay no attention to the man behind the green curtain - he can't fix your computer - the only person who can do that isn't here today. You might want to try and click your heels together and say three times - "there's no place like home - there's no place like home - because if you were at home your internet service provider has an entire staff that is interchangeable and capable of completing most any IT-related task.

by smesc2002 January 13, 2022

Cellaerial Failure

When someone has lost their cell phone signal and attempts to climb to higher and out of reach places to reconnect and fails by not getting the signal or falling on their ass

john: hey what the hell is bob doing way up there

tim: looks as if hes trying to get a signal for is phone

john: oh well thats just gonna end in cellaerial failure

by TheLurkingMoose October 16, 2009

terminal hour glass failure

This is when a pc or a laptop decides to hang at the most critical e-mail/operation that you have ever done in your entire life.
It is also when IT comes along and states the bloody obvious that you pc/laptop has just hung and needs to quit .It also results in the loss of the data that you were either doing or sending resulting in a huge amount of tourettes from yourself and 4 weeks work down the pan

your pc/laptop has suffered terminal hour glass failure,or has just hung

by mytts69 August 10, 2010

Failure Beard

A college tradition of people who go to learn. A student will cease shaving until that student fails an exam. Other students will usually place bets on who will have to shave first.

Doug and Tyler are growing failure beards. What's the pool up to?

by Beard of Win September 1, 2010

nothing fails like failure

a phrase meaning if one fails at one time, one may fail at other times, too.

He is a complete flop. He failed in his exam. He was snubbed by the company when he sought a job there. He even failed to win the heart of his girlfried as she jilted him. Nothing fails like failure, isn't it?

by uttam maharjan June 7, 2011