When you deliberately make repeated errors at work to try and obtain sympathy to lessen your workload. This usually involves a low IQ individual who sometimes mimics the mental state of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the 1992 thriller Single White Female, and is manipulative in the most pathetic sense. The phrase is inspired by Bessie Smith, because it’s the funniest name that rhymes with messy,
Boss: Why isn’t your coworker getting her work done?
Subordinate: She’s trying to play us by pulling a Messy Bessie. Fuck her.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).