Name given to someone when they are addicted to the computer game Settlers. The person carries a laptop around campus - ready to play at any time. The person may ask you to play with them at random and often awkward times. This character may form a nightly gang of Settlers who enjoy playing the game for hours at a time.
"Did you see Settlers today?"
"Settlers asked me to play with him."
A boardgame invented in the grand country of Germany. 3-6 players battle for control of the Island of Catan by trading resources and building roads and cities. The winner is declared the Master of Catan by the defeated.
Matt's handsshake when he is about win when playing Settlers of Catan.
A descriptive phrase used to describe two fat people (specifically obese individuals) who are in a long standing relationship simply for the fact that they are both so overweight that nobody else will ever love them. Their problematic weight usually causes these people to be undesirable to even themselves. This also has to do with them both being too lazy to ever bother to look for someone else. Settlers (settling for less) of El Pan (bread in Spanish; also sounds like Catan, the game). El Pan (bread) is used because it is not only full of bad carbs that stack on the poundage, but the obese people also look doughy, resembling a lumpy loaf of bread.
Man1: "Your roommates are always fighting with eachother, should they really be getting married?"
Man2: "Well, they're both Settlers of El Pan, so they are way too lazy to ever leave each other. Nothing we can do will help them."
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.