The silver metal "sweeper" shaped in the form of a razor fish shell. In a fancy restaurant, the waiter will use this to pick up crumbs between courses.
Waiter pulls out the table zamboni.
Customer: "What the hell is that thing?"
Waiter: "It's a table zamboni."
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.