A routine to get a girl to sleep with them. Usually full of lies and fake promises that will never happen.
Named after a very arrogant musician who has hurt far too many girls by cheating and lying. He 'knowles' every trick in the book and often carries around a million excuses just incase. Tread carefully girls...
"Eugh he tried to do a Michael Knowles on me" "ew what a creep"
"Look there's another Michael Knowles victim, poor girl"
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.