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Parkinson's Law
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion -- unsigned article in The Economist, 19 November 1955

pastie
(PAY stee) a sticker on a key cap to remind the typist of an alternate character or function accessed through that key [1995, Ken Ellis, FIDO Funny echo]

pavement pizza
1: an animal in the road run over by several cars, usu over a period of days; roadkill
2: -n- vomit on the ground

peckersnot
-n- ejaculate

penis, euphemisms for
cherry picker; cock; crotch cobra; dangler; giggle stick; girl-o-meter; John Thomas; knob; little German soldier; Mister Happy; (one-eyed) trouser snake; pants penninsula; pecker; peter; pocket perch; poker; pool cue; pud; s(c)hlong; schwanz; skin flute; tallywhacker; trouser snake; Rumpleforeskin; wang(er); Uncle Wiggly; whore pipe
Note: practically all the euphemisms for penis are considered at least mildly offensive by most people, and often all references to sexual anatomy are considered very offensive and should not be uttered in mixed company; see
sex

people's choice
heroin with a purity approaching 90%; 1995, AP Wire Service

percussive maintenance
the fine art of whacking a device to get it working

phat
fine; a high compliment; 1995, Knight-Ridder News Service; compare excellent

pickled
when I went through basic training in 1984, recruits were pickled when they received their first uniform issue, a set of green fatigues

pig boat
[mil] a very old, dirty ship

pill
cigarette; He smiled faintly, lit another pill himself, and blew smoke. -R.Chandler, The Long Good-Bye, 1953

pink belly
slapping somebody on the belly until it's red; sometimes just a kind of horseplay, sometimes a punishment see also
dogpile; compare blanket party

pins
legs; She's got a nice set of pins; see also
gams, get-away sticks

pitch a shitty -vi- to make a U-turn; heard about 1990

pizza box
-n- the CPU of a computer; heard about 1990; compare
cheese box

Planet, the
Fort Ord, California; also referred to as Planet Ord; heard about 1988

Podunk
'the archetypal jerkwater town' (Cecil Adams); Adams further gives its location: an unincorporated area about six square miles in extent containing about one hundred famlies. It is located mostly within East Brookfield, a town about fifteen miles west of Worcester, Mass; Return of the Straight Dope, Cecil Adams, 1994

poison
heroin with a purity approaching 90%; AP story

pompatus
Pompatus mystified millions when Steve Miller used it in his 1973 hit The Joker: 'Some people call me the space cowboy / Some call me the gangster of love / Some people call me Maurice / 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love.'

'Space cowboy' and 'gangster of love' referred to earlier Miller songs. Maurice was from Miller's 1972 tune Enter Maurice ... [which] had this lyric: 'My dearest darling, come closer to Maurice so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompitous of love.' [The] lyric bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm-and-blues tune called The Letter by the Medallions. The song had been a hit in R&B circles in 1954. It had the lines, 'Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of pizmotality and discuss the puppetutes of love.' The song had been written and sung by a member of the Medallions named Vernon Green. 'Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved,' Green [said]. And puppetutes? 'A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure, who would be my everything and bear my children.'

Steve Miller must have loved R&B. Another line from The Joker goes: 'I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time.' A similar line may be found in the Clovers' 1953 hit Lovey Dovey: 'I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time.' -Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope, 25 Oct 96, The Isthmus

poopie, poopy suit
[mil] a one-piece jumpsuit; I first heard this from a USN submariner in about 1995; Bob Stevens (author of There I Was...) refers to a flight suit as a poopy suit in a March, 1968 appearance of his cartoon There I Was...; the origin of this name may possibly be related to fart sack, a mattress cover usually made of cotton cloth

pope's nose
the tail of a cooked chicken

posse
one's own circle of friends

postal, go
see go postal

prariedogged
in an office that's divided into cubicles, an interesting occurance tends to make most people stand up to peer over the top of their cubicles to try to see what's going on; Sombody dropped his coffee mug, and when it broke, the whole office prariedogged.

psi
...psionics and psi powers originated back in the middle 1950s, one of the earliest uses being in Murray Leinster's The Psionic Mousetrap (1955). Its popularity stems mostly from an article by John W Campbell in June 1956 in which Campbell explained how to build a Hieronymous machine, which was powered by the mind of the operator. Psionics, explained Campbell, means psychic electronics. [The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, Ed. Peter Nichols, Dolphin Books, 1979]

psyche (out)
to kid, to tease; to tempt with something you don't intend to give; Want my seat? Here ... psyche! compare with not, yeh, right

pucker factor
describes an activity producing great anxiety; Bungee-jumping has a high pucker factor.

pump sunshine up your shorts/skirt
to raise expectations, perhaps unreasonably; I don't want to pump any sunshine up your shorts by telling you this will be easy.
Note: While the phrase is not obscene, some people consider it somewhat offensive; it probably should not be used in polite company; compare
happy horseshit

pumped
1: -adj- excited; I'm really pumped about tonight's party.
2: -adj- muscular; compare buff, ripped

purplation
'the tendency for prose to purplize; John DeChancie

put a catch in its get-along
to break something, to stop something

put it in the big meat
to shift a bicycle's gears to the biggest chainring; Bicycling, June 98

put the Indian sign on
...the American aircraft designers rushed to their drawing boards to come up with a fighter which at last could put the Indian sign on the legendary Zero; Gordon Prange, Miracle at Midway, 1982; I can only guess that this means to put a stop to.

putz
[Yiddish] foreskin of a penis after it's been removed; this word is now used in common speech to describe a socially awkward person, much the same way dork is used

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