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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?”

yesteryear 

Years ago, not last year, as you would assume from the meaning of 'yesterday'. it's much more general. Middle English, not really in use nowadays.
I think back to my golden memories of yesteryear...
yesteryear by emma December 20, 2004

yesterbeer 

Any open beer that has been sitting out at least overnight, and then still gets drank. usually by someone who wakes up still drunk from the night before, or a seasoned drinker after the beer runs out.
"where did you find that beer, I thot we were out?"
"we are, its a yesterbeer..."

"Whatta party last night, I really need something to wet my whistle! What is there to drink?"
" nothing left, just grab a yesterbeer!"
yesterbeer by Master_Sven March 24, 2010

yestermer 

Canadian term for yesterday when referring to a Wednesday in Oregon, OH
Yestermer we discussed some changes.
yestermer by midagegeek July 20, 2017

Yesterfarts

The stink that exists in your favorite couch cushion as a result of the 4,000 or so farts that you've pumped into it during its lifetime. Normally surfacing when you drop down fast on said cushion and release the yesterfarts back into your face.
You: "Thanks for dropping by. Why don't you have a seat and make yourself at home?"

Victim: "Sure thing. Well I wanted to talk to you about...holy shit, did you just cut one?"

You: "No"

Victim: "Yes you did!" Your ass smells like old potato chips and mayonnaise!"

You: "That wasn't me. I noticed you flopped onto my cushion so what you're smelling are my yesterfarts. Now can we get back to our conversation and you're inevitable question on whether or not I fucked your mother? Yes, by the way."
Yesterfarts by Knuckles1 February 14, 2010

America of Yesteryear 

A place that only exists in the brains of Republicans.
"I wish we lived in a place more like the America of Yesteryear, that only exists in the brains of us Republicans." - Ned Flanders, The Simpsons.
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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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 flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020
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Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
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Palmela Handerson 

Your hand that you masturbate with.
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Boyfriend: Have a visit from Palmela Handerson of course!
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