Fifth avenue is a (not particularly good) American candy bar, made by Hershey's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Avenue_(candy)
Forty-second street is a well-known Broadway musical. It opened to resounding acclaim on Broadway in 1980, though the triumph was bittersweet as the choreographer, Gower Champion, died of cancer just hours before the first performance (a fact which the producer, David Merrick, managed to conceal from the cast until after the first show). It also launched the career of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
This is totally a man-who story, but a friend of mine told me about third nerds. Apparently at the Christian college she attended, the administration had some particularly strict rules regarding male-female fraternization. Whenever a couple went off-campus together, a mutual friend was required to accompany them and make sure everything stayed on the up-and-up. I'm guessing the use of third nerd to describe such a friend is purely colloquial, not an "official" college phrase.
My friend explained this to me with surprise that I had never heard the term before. Supposedly it's quite common to describe someone who awkwardly tags along during a date. But I have no firsthand knowledge of its use. Still, I like it. :-)
Fifth avenue is a (not particularly good) American candy bar, made by Hershey's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Avenue_(candy)
Forty-second street is a well-known Broadway musical. It opened to resounding acclaim on Broadway in 1980, though the triumph was bittersweet as the choreographer, Gower Champion, died of cancer just hours before the first performance (a fact which the producer, David Merrick, managed to conceal from the cast until after the first show). It also launched the career of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
This is totally a man-who story, but a friend of mine told me about third nerds. Apparently at the Christian college she attended, the administration had some particularly strict rules regarding male-female fraternization. Whenever a couple went off-campus together, a mutual friend was required to accompany them and make sure everything stayed on the up-and-up. I'm guessing the use of third nerd to describe such a friend is purely colloquial, not an "official" college phrase.
My friend explained this to me with surprise that I had never heard the term before. Supposedly it's quite common to describe someone who awkwardly tags along during a date. But I have no firsthand knowledge of its use. Still, I like it. :-)
I'm not familiar with the 'non-address meanings' of those, or with 'third nerd'. Enlighten please :-)
First look? Third nerd? Second life?
twelfth night? fifth avenue? forty-second street? I realize that opening this list up to street addresses is a slippery slope, but fifth avenue and forty-second street have non-address meanings as well.
Friday the thirteenth? the eleventh hour? fifth amendment? fifth wheel?