Top Definition
When something comes up that's not quite what you expected. §
Submitted by: [redacted] Contributor Record Sealed · 18 October 2018
verified Mr. G. Coleridge · TML/F-204 · clerk C.P.
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Entry #0876 · Public Archive · TML 645.8 / WRK.V
The Old Luton Shuffle
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| Ref | Contributor | Region | Filed | End. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D01 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D02 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D03 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D04 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D05 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D06 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D07 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D08 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D09 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D10 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D11 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D12 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D13 | [redacted] | — | 18 Oct 2018 | 1 |
| D14 | [redacted] | — | 5 Nov 2018 | 1 |
| D15 | [redacted] | — | 5 Nov 2018 | 1 |
| D16 | [redacted] | — | 5 Nov 2018 | 1 |
| D17 | [redacted] | — | 5 Nov 2018 | 1 |
| D18 | [redacted] | — | 5 Nov 2018 | 1 |
| D19 | [redacted] | — | 5 Nov 2018 | 1 |
Alternate Definitions
D02
When you've got friends around at your house, or when it's your turn, it's your music library up on your phone, and it just goes into the most embarrassing cycle of suffering.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-217 · clerk A.D.
0
D03
That old school push-push leg swing technique of mounting and riding a bicycle. †
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-201 · clerk C.P.
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D04
If you're a guy at a club, and you shuffle that to a girl, do that walk-dance thing. ¶
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Dr. M. Vassiliou · TML/F-204b · clerk R.O.M.
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D05
When you're showing someone your photos on your phone and suddenly come up on a risky photo and you quickly thumb through the photos and they hope they didn't really see it.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-217 · clerk M.L.
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D06
The one done by the punter in the bookies who's changing his mind on his next bet while on the way to the cashier to place it.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-201 · clerk P.W.
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D07
When you realise you run out of toilet roll. And you have to, with your trousers around your ankles, shuffle to the covers to go and get some more.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Dr. M. Vassiliou · TML/F-217 · clerk M.L.
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D08
When the missus is shouting for you to help with the kids from upstairs and you quietly move out of earshot into the kitchen. ‡
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Mr. G. Coleridge · TML/F-204 · clerk A.D.
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D09
What I do when I go round to my mum's house to avoid stepping on her little dog who is attacking my feet as I enter the house. †
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-204 · clerk S.T.A.
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D10
When you leave one person out quite deliberately because you're frightened of them actually upstaging you or you're jealous that they're getting a chance to make people laugh.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Dr. M. Vassiliou · TML/F-201 · clerk J.B.
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D11
When a white Luton van man is in a hurry and keeps edging forward at the traffic lights.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-204 · clerk A.D.
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D12
When you've washed your hands and you're trying to dry them under an asthmatic hand dryer before giving up and wiping them on the back of your trousers.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Dr. R. Hollis · TML/F-204 · clerk C.P.
0
D13
When you're at work and trying to make a cup of tea, but so is the rest of the office, so you're all sort of awkwardly moving around each other in the little kitchen.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 18 October 2018
verified Mr. G. Coleridge · TML/F-217 · clerk C.P.
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D14
When the person sat in the back of a people carrier needs to lose, so everyone has to move to let them out.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 5 November 2018
verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-201 · clerk J.B.
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D15
The sequence of steps you do just before mounting an escalator. †
Submitted by: [redacted] · 5 November 2018
verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-204 · clerk H.M.
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D16
The act of going through the supermarket bread to find the loaf with the longest best before date.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 5 November 2018
verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-217 · clerk A.D.
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D17
When you're at work trying to make a cup of tea but so is the rest of the office. You end up awkwardly shuffling around the tiny kitchen. *
Submitted by: [redacted] · 5 November 2018
verified Dr. M. Vassiliou · TML/F-204 · clerk R.O.M.
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D18
When you're showing somebody pictures on your phone and you land upon a rather risky photo. So quickly thumb through later to the album and hope they didn't see it.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 5 November 2018
verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-217 · clerk C.P.
0
D19
When you run out of toilet roll and to get more you have to shuffle to the cupboard with your trousers around your ankles. Making the whole situation worse.
Submitted by: [redacted] · 5 November 2018
verified Mr. G. Coleridge · TML/F-204 · clerk A.D.
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- Cross-reference deferred to next revision.
- Use disputed between two regional registers.
- Region note pending confirmation from contributor.
- Variant spelling recorded in Vol. II; not consolidated.
- Original submission redacted; reconstructed from index.
- Cross-reference deferred to next revision.
- Variant spelling recorded in Vol. II; not consolidated.