PRwiz101's definitions

flattersulted

A portmanteau word combining flattered and insulted; when you are both flattered and insulted by someone's remarks or actions

"Hey, I got a note today from a guy who fished my bestselling novel out of a garbage can in New York and told me he enjoyed reading it. Flattering? Insulting? I'm experiencing some mixed emotions. Maybe I've been flattersulted."

-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010

by PRwiz101 April 1, 2010

fartascious

Facts and information that are part of the information overload of every day life.

"We are so deluged with fact, fiction and fartascious stuff that perhaps we really do need a new word or a new method of sorting all the junk out from the stuff that matters to us individually."

-- Hulitoons on Museum of Hoaxes forum comment post, June 18, 2009.

by PRwiz101 June 20, 2009

smudge magnet

(n.) -- A hi-tech tablet gadget like the iPad or the Kindle which whether nerdy-looking or sleek nevertheless becomes a smudge magnet during use at home or office.

"I love the entire concept of the iPad, but I am just worried it's going to become just another smudge magnet in my home."

-- overheard at a watercooler in a San Francisco office building on January 28, 2010

by PRwiz101 January 29, 2010

eback

(n.) -- an e-book composed in or converted to a digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device; first there were hardbacks and paperbacks, now there are ebacks

"I just ordered Stephen King's latest novel in digital format. For me, an eback is just as a good as a paperback book, even better, because I can store it for use anytime anywhere and read it off a variety of screens."

-- overheard at a watercooler in a bookstore in Chicago on March 24, 2010

by PRwiz101 April 4, 2010

incredulosity

(n.) -- An indistinct but generally high measure of incredulity.

"My disbelief rose beyond incredulity to an even higher degree of incredulosity."

-- overheard at a watercooler in an office building in Providence, Rhode Island, October 1, 2009

by PRwiz101 October 2, 2009

scifientist

A person who is neither a scientist nor a science fiction writer, but writes and blogs about possible sci-fi scenarios for the future.

Although polar cities do not exist yet, there's a blogger who envisions them as safe refuges for survivors of global warming in the far distant future, and he calls himself a scifientist.

by PRwiz101 May 4, 2008

truth or crimesequences

(n.) -- What one arrives at after painstakingly investigating a crime.

"I think we found our man in the ongoing murder probe. Now he's going to have to face truth or crimesequences."

Overheard at a watercooler at a police station in Minneapolis on October 15, 2010

by PRwiz101 November 26, 2010