7 definitions by TheIan

hand waving

1. Navy slang for semaphore

2. The crude pidgin language adopted by vastly intelligent scienticians when trying to explain complex ideas and theorems to a normal person with only average intelligence or less.

The radio was broken, so the crew of HMS Ipswich had to rely on Hand Waving.

With a lot of Hand Waving, professor Auld was able to explain to Helen the importance of 2+ 3+ alternate magnetic coupling in an antiferromagnetic arrangement.

by TheIan October 23, 2003

ghettopoly

1. The situation in which a person or persons controls the entire market share of ghetto.

2. A game where small tin symbolic objects (syringe, bandana, pistol) are moved around a board featuring the world's finest ghettos.

3. The glue that sticks the boy to the hood

Fancy a game of ghettopoly?

Aw man, that Chris has the ghettopoly in this town...

Hang on, my hood's slipping. I need to reapply my ghettopoly

by TheIan October 23, 2003

monstrous carbuncle

A hideous waste of public money, often on a meaningless edifice of British national pride, probably built by a German contractor.

Comedy Pyramid

That new German-built monument of British pride is a monstrous carbuncle...

by TheIan October 22, 2003

white box

The accident recording device in civil aircraft pre-1963, when the equal aviation opportunities act was passed

Yes, this is an authentic 1959 passenger plane, look, you can tell from it's White Box

by TheIan October 23, 2003

comedy pyramid

A colloquial term for a redundant landmark, often relating to useless moments of public spending, the meaning of which has long been forgotten amidst a forest of red tape.

monstrous carbuncle

So there's that memorial statue of Patsy Palmer... you know, it's so long since they proposed that, it's a bit of a Comedy Pyramid now to be honest...

by TheIan October 22, 2003

camera

1. an apparatus used to take photographs by the admittance of light rays through an aperture. Often using a lens to focus the rays onto a film of light-responsive chemicals.

2. Dutch slang for cool.

1. There's a nice bird, I'd like to remember what that looks like forever. I think I'll take a photomegraph with my camera.

2. Wow man, thet bord ish sho camera...

by TheIan October 23, 2003

cutty

Toby's dog in episode 3 of the Rockford Files.

Here, Cutty! Good boy.

by TheIan October 23, 2003