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"I'm used to all the typos in the newspapers these days, but what
really irritates me is when I see a major grypo that neither the
editors nor the proofreaders caught! Whatever happened to correct grammar usage?"
overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper newsroom in Boston, January 23, 2011
really irritates me is when I see a major grypo that neither the
editors nor the proofreaders caught! Whatever happened to correct grammar usage?"
overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper newsroom in Boston, January 23, 2011
by PRwiz101 May 20, 2011
Get the grypo mug."Newspapers are so yesterday, and they are destined to go the way of the dodo. The newspipe will replace the newspaper, and life will go on with no loss of life or limb, just a few adjustments here and there. I believe the future lies in newspipes, the lovely variety of them all!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in the New York Times building on March 27, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler in the New York Times building on March 27, 2010
by PRwiz101 April 10, 2010
Get the newspipe mug.(n.) -- Nickname, in a friendly and easy-to-pronounce form, for a popular online dictionary called the Urban Dictionary.
"I love seeing the new definitions of words that keep popping up daily on the Urban Dick! It's a really cool online dictionary."
-- overheard at a watercooler in Chicago, November 12, 2009
-- overheard at a watercooler in Chicago, November 12, 2009
by PRwiz101 November 15, 2009
Get the Urban Dick mug.(n.) -- words that are spelled incorrrectly, for all the world to see, on TV broadcasts at CNN and other networks
"I've seen some real bloopers and howlers on CNN recently, where the headline writer spelled "competing" as "competiting" and things like that. Happens almost every day on my TV screen, all the networks do it. Don't they have copyeditors? I call them 'crash possums' because they remind me of dead possums on rural roads and highways."
-- Overheard outside a coffee shop in Harvard Square in Cambridge on January 8, 2010
-- Overheard outside a coffee shop in Harvard Square in Cambridge on January 8, 2010
by PRwiz101 January 16, 2010
Get the crash possums mug.(n.) - A nostalgia for old manual and electric typewriters as well as the sound of typewriting on such machines
"I like my computer with its sleek keyboard, of course, but I must say, I also harbor a personal typestolgia for the old days of manual typewriters and electric typewriters."
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, May 15, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, May 15, 2010
by PRwiz101 May 21, 2010
Get the typestolgia mug.(n.) -- Publicly-voiced attitudes toward Islam and Moslems worldwide, often irrational and prejudiced.
"There is so much antislamitism today, what with the Ground Zero mosque controversy and other issues. It's not fair to judge an entire people just because of a few isolated
incidents or radical fanatics."
-- overheard at a water cooler in a lower Manhattan office on September 1, 2010
incidents or radical fanatics."
-- overheard at a water cooler in a lower Manhattan office on September 1, 2010
by PRwiz101 September 9, 2010
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