Used when someone states the bloody obvious, taken from playwright Alan Bennett's Talking Head "HER BIG CHANCE", the story of a vaccuous actress who employs this phrase constantly when trying to seduce the director of a porn film, the aforementioned Simon.
He said: "When you go to school, you learn stuff." She said, "That's interesting Simon!"
usually something that may be interesting, provided the deliverer of the comment ACTUALLY bothers to elaborate as opposed to leave it as an open-ended comment...
When some resigns or retires from a job, they are on "eternity leave". This can also refer to someone who has passed away, especially someone who worked somewhere for a long time, retired/resigned, then passed away later.
Oh I'm sorry, you didn't know that Kelly is on eternity leave? She resigned and moved to Hawaii!
With regrets I would like to inform you that my boss is officially on eternity leave. I will never see or hear them again. Ever.
The hypothetical man (often a sinistercharacter who decided not to go to boot camp) that is doing your girlfriend/wife while you are on deployment overseas.
Ain't no use in goin home,
Jody's got your girl and gone.
Ain't no use in goin back,
Jody's got your Cadillac,
Ain't no use in feeling blue,
Jody's took your checkbook too.