Stock Footage

A telephone conversation skill that involves giving the impression of listening to one's interlocutor's monologue while actually focusing on a separate unrelated task that demands all of one's conscious attention. This technique allow one to focus on one of the myriad tasks that demand our time in this Information Age such as checking email, reading product labels, console video games, television subplot hermeneutics, etc.

The effective Stock Footage skill set includes (at least):
1. Subliminally registering important words,
2. Following the tone and cadence of your partner's voice while ignoring its content,
3. Judiciously interjecting soothing phrases when appropriate,
4. And, (the most expert skill) responding to the dreaded "Are you even listening to me?" or somesuch query by reconstructing from one's subconscious mind enough of the meaning of the fellow communicant's narrative to prevent a highly undesirable incidence of Color Bars.

In the following example, Speaker B is engaging in Stock Footage:

Speaker A: "...and so she says to me 'no way' and i go 'you've GOT to be kidding me' and he goes 'no you DIDN'T' and then they both started in again with the, you know, and I was like so... "

Speaker B: "So.. what?"

Speaker A: "Embarrassed, you know? Are you even listening to me?"

Speaker B; "Yes, of course, they were at it again with the same old same old can you believe it?'

Speaker A; "I know! And then she was like..."

by Sergeant Hoze July 30, 2008

put your foot in it

when someone says you put your foot in somethin, that means you know how to cook whateva 'it' is, well

mmm. yo mama's frie dchicken is off da chain! you know she put her foot in it!

by yay area baby June 3, 2005

Piss on my foot and tell me its raining

To tell a fabrication in such a way as to be ridiculously transparent; misleading; doing one thing, and purposely mislabeling it; bold face liar

Don't pretend that's as low as the price gets,I know the blue book value of that car, and its about three thousand less than what you want, so don't piss on my foot and tell me its raining! or I saw you kiss her, thats not how cousins kiss, so don't piss on my foot and tell me its raining!

by Sabrina Burton September 11, 2008

monkey fuckin' a football

a person with no coordination, an event that is unorganized.
get a mental picture of a monkey fucking a football... there is you're definition

*let me help you lift that box, you look like a monkey fuckin' a football

by bogart March 10, 2005

footcheck

defined as the initial act of scoping out your restroom-stall choices. a person causally glances down at floor level, hoping to avoid an embarrassing and unwarranted entry into an occupied latrine.

"man, why don't people lock the stalls? i did a footcheck and thought it was empty, but when i opened the stall, i saw some guy in mid-wipe."

by oopspoops August 8, 2007

Footalons

Sharp, unkept toe nails, capable of doing damage to an enemy during combat, as well as a significant other while laying in bed.

Ouch! You just stabbed me in the shin with one of your footalons.

by durwoodz March 22, 2011

foot tapping

A signal that gay guys use to signify they want sex in a public restroom.

The young electrician resorted to foot tapping every time he entered a men's room stall.

by Angry Stockholder August 21, 2019