Splurging, then never regaining your mojo. Such was the case when Willie Harris had 6 hits in a game for the Atlanta Braves, then hit .190 in 51 games after.
"Hey bro, I just pulled a Willie Harris."
"What bro? That sounds kinda homo."
"Nah man, I just jerked it before I knew mah girl was comin' over, then when she got here, I couldn't finish."
Pulling a William indicates that you have royally screwed up. Somehow, despite every possible odd, you managed to make the impossible and incomprehensible existent. Pulling a William also involves the "William Puller" to laugh maniacally after committing their act.
William Puller: *tries to build a house, but accidentally builds time machine operated by a rat with a lightsaber for a tail*
Barely squeaking by (or barely passing), or pulling it out of your ass.
In reference to the radio show, "The Bobby Bones Show" - when the cast was playing The Name Game, the cohost Lunchbox barely squeaked by naming "Free Willy" as a "Bill" or "William," thus causing controversy in the studio.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)