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Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

A question posed by Yossarian in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him.

This seemingly rhetorical question is what one asks when one feels that everyone else is asking stupid questions and one wants to join in and/or point out how obviously stupid their questions are. Or, merely, because one wants to find out why so many people are working so hard to kill oneself.
Yossarian was a collector of good questions and had used them to disrupt the educational sessions Clevinger had once conducted two nights a week in Captain Black's intelligence tent with the corporal in eyeglasses who everybody knew was probably a subversive. Captain Black knew he was a subversive because he wore eyeglasses and used words like panacea and utopia, and because he disapproved of Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating unAmerican activities in Germany.

Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him. A handful of other men were also interested, and the questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any.

“Who is Spain?”

“Why is Hitler?”

“When is right?”

“Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?”

“How was Trump at Munich?”

“Hi-ho beriberi!”

and “Balls!” all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was Yossarian with the question that had no answer:

“Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”
by Jill Harris April 26, 2005
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fly where eagles dare

1. To be so ambitious as to lack hubris. To challenge the gods themselves. Often results in glorious failure.

2. An Iron Maiden song.
1. Icarus flew high into the sky with his wax wings, ignoring his father's warnings. The higher he flew the more the heat of the sun melted his wings, causing him to plummet to his death.

2. Dave saw a pair of crazy buffalo plaid pants in the store window display. He muttered "i shall fly where eagles dare" and marched inside.
by papa_jack December 15, 2009
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The Part Where He Kills You

The part in the Valve game Portal 2 where Wheatley claims he is going to kill you. (This is that part.)
GLaDOS: Well, this is the part where he kills us...
Wheatley: 'Ello! This is the part where I kill you!
Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You
Achievement/Trophy Unlocked: The Part Where He Kills You
by TiaTodd October 14, 2011
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Where's My Super Suit

Where's my super suit...woman.
by BustyBeanieBaby April 3, 2012
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where did you go? (go?)

a meme on tiktok which is basically a song that has the funniest producer tag of all time, its literally just the hard r
also, the beat was made by someone named "dj nigger beats."
and the beat is just sampled pvz watery graves song.
great.
the beat itself is pretty good, but the singer, smorez, just ruins it.
young fly on the track
NIGGERS NIGGERS NIGGERS.

where did you go? (go?)
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whereisthespacebutton

its what you expect
you cant find the space button
its literally right there
John: whereisthespacebutton
Zach: dude its literally right there how can you not see it
John ohokthanks
by spacemandude March 3, 2021
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If it ain't in the taint, where is it?

This colloquial phrase is commonly heard in modern millennial social circles and among co-workers in fields of work involving the skilled trades, etc. Used primarily as a call-and-response, but can also be used formally in the pejorative sense.
If it ain't in the taint, where is it?

Somewhere between Schenectady and Coxsackie.
by Randall Whitaker March 9, 2021
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