slumgudgeon

Slang for body compound, used in vehicle car repair.

"That car's only held together with slumgudgeon"

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Thora Hird's Magic Handbag

Slang term for Dimesmeric Antiphosphate, a narcotic frequently known as cake.

"Yo, booyashaka! Just scored a lid of Thora Hird's Magic Handbag! Sorted!"

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games workshop

Manufacturers of wargaming miniatures and rules for using such. Critics describe their work as one-dimensional, overpriced, larger than scale, and decry their habit of invalidating entire ranges of miniatures by redrafting rulebooks every four years. Adherents praise their work as accessible, market leading, pioneering new scales for detailing purposes, and utilising the latest in bleeding edge demographic-tailored marketing strategies.

What is certain is that through shipstone operations on allied companies, a clever exclusivity campaign and various strategies they have become the largest wargaming company in the world; Though, in spite of their claim, not the only one.

a:"Games Workshop just released a new edition of Warhammer!"
b:"Gee, after five tries, you think they'd get it right . . . "

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I'll buy that for a dollar

Slang phrase for "I'll accept that gladly" from the movie Robocop.

Derived from a slang phrase in a famous scince fiction story "The Marching Morons" by C.M.Kornbluth, in which a popular catchphrase for asking 'would you believe it?' was "Would you buy it for a quarter?". In the intervening years, inflation has been occurring.

a:" Think my car needs cleaning?"
b:" I'll buy that for a dollar!"

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can your granny sew?

A delicate way of telling someone you are about to perform an act of violence upon them, esp. the application of a Liverpool Kiss to the nose or the use of a Stanley knife. Follwed up by the action, then the use of the phrase " Then get THAT stitched!" Scottish traditional folk saying.

English man in pub;"Celtic Thistle are not doig well this year..."
Scot:"Oh Aye? Can your granny sew, mate?"

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netsibishionist

Users of chatrooms who prefer to cyber or chat in erotic manner in open or non-private mode. Annoying to most users although witty couples with good vocabularies and fertile imaginations are on rare occasions entertaining.

ROmeOH:"Then, I run my tongue along your neck...."
JewLee@:"Ooh . . Shuddering, I clutch at your chest with abandon. . . "
CovertWalrus:"Ahh the netsibishionists are in here again"

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Budrys Reflex

The protective response that erases the knowledge of a truth that contradicts a Widely Believed Fact to prevent the painful effects of Cognitive Dissonance.

Simply put, the way people will immediately forget the truth about something if they prefer to believe the more popular theory or idea - Most commonly seen in conspiracy theorists, the Tinfoil Hat Brigade and in political discussions.

Derived fromt he name Algis Budrys, SF writer, who wrote a story about mental and physical supermen who were ignored by the public for their acheivements by a similar effect in the story 'Nobody Bothers Gus'.

A:( who suffers from Budrys Reflex) We spend too much money on the space programme - they should give that money to the teachers or sumthin' . . .

B:(Opens Federal budget) Well, look . . . Nasa gets 3.5billion bucks a year, and the HEW gets 32.1 billion - Ten times as much!

A:Oh. ( Reflex kicks in ) Oh, maybe there's more from the CIA or the Freemasons going into NASA then.

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