An at the time non-serious name for a new, non-alcoholic beverage idea for bar customers who don't drink, consisting of half coke, half 7-UP, which actually wound up tasting pretty good.
The act of licking the remnants of a food or beverage from the container it was served in, particularly when the tongue is stretched and swirled to maximum capacity.
My sister drank her Choco-tini, then totally Scoobydooed the chocolate off the glass.
That ice cream was so good I want to Scoobydo the bowl!
Defense: blame the messenger, try to shift the focus from the crime to the press that reports it.
At the end of each episode of Scooby Doo, the villain always says, “and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids
... and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling press reporters says Clinton to Matt Drudge
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has excoriated NewsWeek for reporting on a Qu'ran being flushed down a toilet in Guantanamo. Translation: "and we would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling Newsweek guys"
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.