1) To have a very jovial experience, such as with the intake of weed or alcohol.
2) Used by Mr Burns in the Simpsons to describe an event he had when he was younger.
3) An event pre-dating the present and that involved homosexual behaviour.
1) By jove, this Vodka is insubstantial compared to the hydro we were just smoking. But, of course, it does enhance the experience. Ah, what a gay old time we're having.
2) Oh, well, when I was six, my father took me on a picnic. That was a gay old time! Oh-ho, I ate my share of wieners that day.
3) Hey, Oscar Wilde, I hear ya've been having a gay old time down at the Gentleman's Writer club.
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.