http://www.thefreedictionary.com/meteoric
3. Similar to a meteor in speed, brilliance, or brevity: a meteoric rise to fame.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 9:56, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

fair enough..
..but nothing there about direction, I notice...
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 9:58, Reply)

No
because they are using it to describe speed not direction, they then cunningly use the word "rise" to indicate the direction.

Those trixsy pixies
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)

fair enough again (damn you and your reasonable arguments)
but if you want to compare one fast thing to another fast thing, why not pick a more appropriate fast thing, i.e. one that does, indeed, rise.

Like a rocket. Or vomit. Or my blood pressure.
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:08, Reply)

sounds like a job for
Suzie Dent (or whatever her name is, the bird who knows how to work a dicitonary on Countdown)
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)

I did an online course in dictionary searching on Monday
I bet I don't fare any better than anyone on here.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:09, Reply)

Is it a 26 week course?
Next lesson: 'B'
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:13, Reply)

1. Relating to, or consisting of elements of, both the earth and the heavens. Obs. nonce-use

2 b. fig. Flashing or dazzling like a meteor, transiently or irregularly brilliant; rapid, swift; appearing suddenly.

4. Elevated, lofty. Obs. nonce-use.

1832 S. TURNER Sacr. Hist. I. i. 14 (note) [tr. Diodorus Siculus] The fiery particles ascended to the most meteoric or highest regions [Gk. ].

EAT MY ETYMOLOGY, SUCKER!!!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:17, Reply)

I'm a coder
don't make me replace you with a script
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:22, Reply)

But why would you do that?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:23, Reply)

to make you destitute and forced to wander the streets
"Oh are you all cold, wet and hungry. C'mon into my warm dungeo... er house."
\Jarvis
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:33, Reply)

"now I don't want to come over all Mother Theresa...
...Ohhhh GOD!"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:53, Reply)

USED BY PAEDOS ARGH!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:22, Reply)

Yup
I used my nonce-sense
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I want this T-shirt

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:40, Reply)

You would be dead in seconds

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:52, Reply)

In which case Phil Collins should wear it more often
This is the trouble: my flatmates and most of my friends in my department would find it hilarious. Unfortunately the chances of a belligerent Daily Mail/Star/Sun/News of the World reader getting on the same tube train as me mean it really wouldn't be worth the risk.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:55, Reply)

I know
It ent worf it
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:55, Reply)

Plus my supervisor is very protective of her young daughter
And I'd rather our professional relationship wasn't tarnished by her suspecting that I was some sort of paedo.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:57, Reply)

By 'supervisor'
Do you mean 'probation officer'?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)

Shit.
Rumbled.
Alright, I admit it: I am John Venables and David Calvert.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:00, Reply)

We had a BALL on my facebook with that last night
Me and my cousin were ranting on about it, and then our OTHER cosuin sent us the text. We thought she was doing it in earnest and were about to give her loads. She was kidding.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:03, Reply)

I still think my favourite quote so far is
"What do the papers know? They make stuff anyway. I got a text from a mate saying it's true."

It'll be all round ASDA at this rate...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:06, Reply)

One of my mates was cameraman for that show

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:56, Reply)

HOW DID HE KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE?
Seriously, watching Phil Collins point to his "nonce sense" T-shirt, or watching Richard Blackwood sniff a computer keyboard, I would not have been able to maintain the pretence that it was a serious documentary and would have just had to claim incontinence or something.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)

I want the tshirt for
Free the United Kingdon from Drugs
&
Britain Opposed to Metabiologically Bisterbile Drugs

from memory, I love Chris Morris
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:57, Reply)

Got any
clarky cat?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)

I told you I ain't got no clarky can
I don't know it, I only got coke.
( djtrialprice, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I'd answer back
But I'm genuinely worried what will happen if I get it wrong.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:14, Reply)

Tell him you want real coke this time
Not fucking pepsi.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)