A day that is entirely taken up with necessary but mind-numbing administration, usually to clear the decks so you can get on with the stuff you're supposed to be doing.
"If I don't get this tax return done today, my head won't be clear enough to finish Ulysses. Time for a Brown Envelope Day." --James Joyce, Trieste, 1921.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'