Reasongiven by publicly traded companies while reporting poor performance to investors.
Hey Joe last quarter really sucked we should not have decorated our offices and written big bonus checks to ourselves, what should we do? No worries, I have an easy response, we just tell our investors that we hit economic headwinds and that is why profits are down.
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'