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I only see the Golden Arches.

Ex-actly.

@the anaXis feeling:= Feeling (mostly around the holiday season) that all the things you should be doing

have to make place for solving problems other people made.

Example: A. Why did you not make your deadline?

B Hey, I have the anaXis feeling!

@The chaps:= The appearance of solid objects to jerk spasmodically during childhood fever (I'm told this can also happen to drying-out alcoholics)Term invented by me as a 4-year-old during a particularly strong bout of fever.

Example: Poor wee Jimmy's got the chaps.

@The chaps:= The appearance of solid objects to jerk spasmodically during childhood fever (I'm told this can also happen to drying-out alcoholics)Term invented by me as a 4-year-old during a particularly strong bout of fever.

Example: Poor wee Jimmy's got the chaps.

@The Company:= Washington DC expression: The Central Intelligence Agency.

Example: The Company is quite likely to grow in both funding and personnel due to the events of 9-11.

@the dog's:= The dog's bollocks, meaning the very best. British Slang.

Example: Did you see Dave's new car? It's the dog's.

@The Doyle Owl:= Used as a comparison, the Doyle Owl is both hideously ugly and extremely desirable

Example: 1. Those shoes are uglier than the Doyle Owl.

2. Everbody's after Tim like he was the Doyle Owl.

@the ESMA Shuffle:= Trying to find productive things to do and appear busy the last half hour of the work day.

Example: Guys, it's 3:30. Time to do the ESMA Shuffle for the rest of the day.

@The Fast Show fallacy:= The mistaken belief that anything, especially a pat catch-phrase, is funny if repeated enough.

From unfunny UK comedy show, The Fast Show, which applies this bizarre logic to extreme degrees.

Example: I hate Dare To Believe. It takes The Fast Show fallacy to frighteningly misguided extremes.

@the football:= Washington DC expression: the briefcase carried by a military officer c

ontaining the launch codes to America's nuclear arsenal. Follows the President everywhere.

Example: The person carrying the football is usually a field grade officer,

generally a major or lieutenant commander.

Contrary to myth the football is not handcuffed to the carrier.

@The Fromkin:= A dance characterized by its stiff and jerky body movements. Finally, finsished off by a fast hard bopping of the head and hair.

Example: The Fromkin can only be done by the most skilled dancers.

@The Grey:= A Greyhound bus.

Example: I'm taking The Grey to Calgary.

@The H is O:= Shortform of the The Heat is ON!

Take from the title of a Glenn Frey song. Also used on a Saturday Night Live sketch.

Example: Rich: Albert, you're screwed! You have a 12 page essay due tomorrow that you haven't started yet.

Albert: Yeah, I know. The H is O.

@the heir and the spare:= British expression: The Princes Willam and Harry, respectively.

Example: The press has backed off the heir and the spare in the publicity wake following

Diana's death.

@the know:= (noun) knowing everything and anything as it happens.

Example: how did you know about that security hole? you must be in the know!

@the man:= An authority figure, such as a principal, boss, mayor, etc.

Example: The man caught me skipping class again.

@The Ness:= That certain je ne sais quoi that a person has that makes you go, Wow, that's one cool guy! when you see him. If someone has The Ness, you instantly want to be friends with him.

Originated from a lack of description for a friend: She's got this... coolness. Weirdness. Amazingness. It's just a... a -ness!

Example: Hey, look at him! He's got The Ness.

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