Jim Wilson
n.— «I’d choose goo over sitting next to a “Jim Wilson” on a cross-country flight. Then again, the airline did give me free drinks—I guess it’s the hidden bonus of the corpse seatmate.» —“Re: Baby born in midair on London to Boston flight” by Caledonia Usenet: misc.kids.pregnancy Sept. 26, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A mangle is an old device for squeezing water from laundry. In 19th-century England, this word figured in the discourteous catchphrase Has your mother sold her mangle? The question implies that the person addressed has to make ends meet by selling...
Among London cabbies, a musher is somebody who owns their own cab, a starving musher is someone still paying for their cab, and musher’s lotion is rain. The book Schott’s Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages (Bookshop|Amazon)...