PRwiz101's definitions

crash possums

(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

by PRwiz101 January 16, 2010

antislamitism

(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

by PRwiz101 September 9, 2010

hate-reading

(n.) -- an online activity in which one visits a website, Twitter feed, or
Facebook page for the express purpose of ridiculing -- or indulging
one's disdain for -- the author and/or the content on the site

"Okay, I'll be honest: I indulge in hate-reading from time to time, sure, ever since I
discovered the Internet in junior high. It's something I usually do alone, late at night, when I'm
procrastinating or drunk or bored."

overheard at an office watercooler in Modesto, California, Decemeber 16, 2011

by PRwiz101 March 1, 2012