A red herring that is so absurd as to alert the listener that the speaker is telling a lie. Oftentimes the lie is told when telling the truth would be simple but slightly uncomfortable.
Friend 1: Are we still on for coffee?
Friend 2: No, there is something I have to tell you.
Friend 1: What is it?
Friend 2: I have cancer...
Friend 1: Are you pulling a Melville?
Boyfriend: There is something I need to tell you.
Girlfiend: What?
Boyfriend: I am sexually attracted to men.
Girlfriend: Are you pulling a Melville, we can just break up you know?
Friend 2: No, there is something I have to tell you.
Friend 1: What is it?
Friend 2: I have cancer...
Friend 1: Are you pulling a Melville?
Boyfriend: There is something I need to tell you.
Girlfiend: What?
Boyfriend: I am sexually attracted to men.
Girlfriend: Are you pulling a Melville, we can just break up you know?
by bklyn667 December 23, 2009
Get the Pulling a Melville mug.A shop where girls who think are "hipster", and or, "grunge" shop at where everything is overpriced and insanely cheap/thin fabric. The only reason this shop is probably in buisness is because Kylie Jenner marketed the shit out of it on instagram, and rich white wannabes become their number one customers.
*white girl #1* "Ehmahgawd, that shirt is so on point where'd you get it?!".
*white girl #2* "I totally got it from brandy melville, Kylie has the same one so I bought four!".
*white girl #2* "I totally got it from brandy melville, Kylie has the same one so I bought four!".
by Hans solo April 22, 2014
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A store where only rich girls shop it. It sells crop tops, thin sweaters, and everything there is pretty much cheap quality clothes that are way too expensive. People only know brandy melville because of Kylie Jenner and Pia Mia.
by Common Asian Girl September 19, 2013
Get the brandy melville mug.That store that a lot of teen girls shop at. Lacks diversity, basically, only white girls shop there. Known for the body-shaming "One size fits all" which is actually "One size fits small" everything is also cropped, thin and overpriced
by thestupidsoul January 5, 2021
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by jess May 6, 2005
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"Yeah, that's Herman Melville, he--"
"I hope he has scurvy."
"Yeah, that's Herman Melville, he--"
"I hope he has scurvy."
by Professor Richard Rockhard October 27, 2020
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His four books, in order, are "King Rat" about a young man who discovers his heritage is closely intertwined with legend, "Perdido Street Station" the first book in an unnamed series set on a world called Bas-Lag. In it, a scientist and his xenian (alien) lover uleash a nightmare on the city of New Crobuzon. "The Scar" second in the series, about a woman named Bellis Coldwine fleeing the city in the peripheral wake of the events in the previous. It delves much deeper into the history first glimpsed in "Perdido Street Station". Most recently is "Iron Council" which follows the history of the 'perpetual train' and how it comes to help out several people.
Though obscure he's won or been nominated for more awards than many writers produce.
His four books, in order, are "King Rat" about a young man who discovers his heritage is closely intertwined with legend, "Perdido Street Station" the first book in an unnamed series set on a world called Bas-Lag. In it, a scientist and his xenian (alien) lover uleash a nightmare on the city of New Crobuzon. "The Scar" second in the series, about a woman named Bellis Coldwine fleeing the city in the peripheral wake of the events in the previous. It delves much deeper into the history first glimpsed in "Perdido Street Station". Most recently is "Iron Council" which follows the history of the 'perpetual train' and how it comes to help out several people.
Though obscure he's won or been nominated for more awards than many writers produce.
by Bachalon August 8, 2004
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