PRwiz101's definitions

pre-memory

Things you knew before you knew how to know them.

"My pre-memory really plays tricks on me from time to time, but for the life of me, I really do remember some things that there is no way I could have known about!"

-- overheard at a pub in southern Taiwan on July 1, 2009

by PRwiz101 July 4, 2009

marmalade dropper

(n.) - A news story so bizarre it makes you drop the marmalade when you are reading the newspaper or news on your iPad tablet at breakfast.

"Wow, the story about that guy embezzling all the money right in front of his co-workers' eyes is an amazing marmalade dropper. How come nobody noticed?"

-- overheard at a water cooler in a Manhattan office building, January 25, 2011

by PRwiz101 March 13, 2011

app-rehension

(noun) -- A feeling that the software will lead to a disastrous loss of privacy down the road.

"The more I think about all these apps going around, the more I am filled with app-rehension."

-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan on January 15, 2013

by PRwiz101 January 27, 2013

captcha coincidence

(n.) - When the two words you type in to a CAPTCHA anti-SPAM window -- in order to let the comment section know that you are not an auto-spammer -- have an amazingly real or ironic connection to the theme of the topic you were commenting on.

"Wow, what a coincidence! I was posting a comment about Rush Limbaugh on a website, and I had to type in two words to get past the CAPTCHA anti-SPAM system and the two words the system gave me were were 'connection' and 'hellish'. What an amazing captcha coincidence, huh!"

-- overheard at a watercooler in an office complex in Mountain View, California

by PRwiz101 October 13, 2009

night-mail

(n.) - Email letters and messages that arrive in your inbox overnight while you are sleeping, often from people in different time zones around the world

"Every morning I check my night-mail to see if anything urgent arrived from overseas. With all these time zones worldwide, you never know who is going to email you and when!"

-- overheard at a watercooler at the UN building in Manhattan

by PRwiz101 September 1, 2009

moredom

The opposite of boredom.

"I never suffer from boredom, and in fact, if I suffer from anything, it's from moredom! I never have enough time to do all the things I want to do!"

-- Danny Bloom, April 7, 2009

by PRwiz101 July 4, 2009

a follow

A book or a CD or an online game that is created or produced after a similar, usually debut work by the same artist or maker.

"Wow, I bought that first game in the series, but I want to buy a follow when it comes out, too."

-- Overheard at a water cooler in Taipei

by PRwiz101 August 10, 2009