September 2009
2 posts
Dutch Oven →
bestofwikipedia:
Dutch oven is a fart chamber created by pulling a blanket over someone’s head and farting. The phrase is a slang description based on the cooking action of a Dutch oven where food is cooked and steamed inside a closed chamber. Performing a Dutch oven creates an area of smelly gaseous air in an enclosed space that must be breathed in. This is done as a prank or by accident to ones...
L'esprit De L'escalier or "what I should have... →
bestofwikipedia:
L’esprit de l’escalier or esprit d’escalier (stairway wit) is thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful—when one is on the “staircase” leaving the scene of the encounter. The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at not having thought...