Darkthirty - 30 minutes after dark (whenver that may be).
EX: “I’ll met ya at the truck 'bout darkthirty kay?”
table of beer - a term that comes into play when the waitress doesn’t remove empty bottles from your table fast enough. This results in an accumulation of bottles on the table that evenutally forces you to move to another table.
EX: “You want to order some quesadillas?”
“Lets finish this table then we can move over there and order”
or alternately
“man we drank four whole tables of beer last night”
Not to be confused with OhDarkthirty, which means, basically, too early in the morning to care. For instance, “what time do you want to start the road trip?” “Early - we’ll leave at ohdarkthirty”.
Also used when you really want some sleep “The demo is at 9am, what time is it now?” “ohdarkthirty”.
CUP (Copper Unit of Pressure): (real) The amount of crushing caused or the measured change in the mass of a standardized copper cylinder when exposed to the explosive force of a certain charge. Used to detrmine breach pressures in firearms and ordnance.
Sh!t-Pot Full: (figurative) More than a lot, but less than a Sh!tload.
F*ck-Ton: (figurative) 10 Sh!tloads.
Metric F*ck-Ton: (figurative) Much more than a F*ck-Ton.
RPH (formerly RCH): Red Pubic Hair; Red pubic hairs are rumored to be the finest (thinest) human hair; The smallest distance that can be measured by the un-aided human eye.
Reminds me of BFD. That would be: a real big dog. A useful measurement in the kennel. (“A poodle or shih tzu will fit in the top cages, but you can put a BFD in the lowers.”)
-Rue.
What about a dollop? It’s a volume measurement for milk, used in Texan and Southern recipes. You tip the bottle over your cake batter; the milk makes a dollop noise, and you have added a dollop of milk to the mix!
For engineers of a certain gender and temperament, any distance too small to measure without using a micrometer is an “ass hair” or a “cunt hair”, depending on who is in the room. Why not just a hair? I think it’s because engineers deal with a lot of salty shop-floor types, so they’re always trying to act more down-to-earth than they really are. It’s most effectively used in combination with technical jargon.
Example: The layout says the nozzle extension linkage is supposed to have an inch of clearance, but at 40% extension it passes about an ass hair from the inboard gas generator tank mounting clevis.
Lest you think such a small unit could have no use, remember that a shed represents an area of aproximately 3.83 x 10[sup]17[/sup] square planck lengths.
Tris
Rule of Reason: “If nobody uses it, there’s a reason.”
I believe that porno directors determine the running times of their art using the ‘time to climax’ as a measure, thus a two wank movie is…, well I wouldn’t actually know but you get the idea.
