A Knickerbocker Glory was, when I was a kid in England, a sort of ice cream that came in a long glass. I´m not sure what sort of ice cream was in it, but there was whipped cream and sauce on top. And a wafer
1. 'gorbies': Joe and Jane average thrill-seekers who tell annoying stories about their 'near-death experience', when they fell out of their raft and took a mild thrashing in Phil's Hole. Gorbies are often found at trendy nightclubs in Toronto.
2. 'pro-gorbies': Kayakers who will pee on a cliff before hucking off it to give it the appearance of it being wet. 'Pro-gorbies' can be found eating greasy nachos at some dive in Ottawa (or maybe Thunder Bay), mocking people who live in Toronto.
"I don't paddle with gorbies unless they've bounced out of a raft and landed on my boat."
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.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).