UNIVERSE

What you say to shut up a meaningless and exaggeratory argument, on the theory that if it's of the format my cat is as big as a house! well mine's as big as a city! etc., then the end-point of such a discussion is reached when someone invokes the universe. can be used by someone involved in the argument or a bystander. invented by my friend paul, who is too unenlightened to post it himself. Example: A: My car's older than my mom. B: Well my car's older than Winston Churchill. A: Oh yeah? My car's older than the Napoleonic wars. C: UNIVERSE!