In opera, audiences would start to leave in between acts thinking it was over. Many operas supposedly announced the end when a blonde women with long braids and a Viking helmet with horns would sing.
1. An extremely fat lady that teaches piano lessons with a bird beside her squakking away. This person is usally old and dumb like a wounded buffalo beast. She will yell at you if you get one note wrong and her bird will yell at you the whole time and she will pay more attention to the bird.Also when she sings the song it sounds like your killing a buffalo. A good song reminding you of the fat lady with the bird is the song "They Can't Take That Away From Me" by Frank Sinatra.
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Guy 1: Dude i just got done with the fat lady with the bird and she would stop being so annoying.
Guy 2: Aw Man that really stinks did you learn any thing?
Guy 1: Yea, bring a gun and some bird poison.
2. "The way you sing off key, the way you haunt my dreams, no they cant take that away from me" Frank Sinatra
While our lifespan is the number of years we will live, our healthspan is the number of healthy years we will have and our sexspan is is the number of years we will continue to be healthy enough to continue having an active sex life.
A lighthearted reaction upon receiving disappointing news of some sort. Usually something that isn't a particularly a big deal, esp. when it primarily affects someone else - sort of a mild schadenfreude. Sometimes doubled or tripled, and possibly said in a sing-songy voice for added comedic effect to imitate a muted trumpet, which is how the meme originated.
You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
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 flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.