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googletrawl

That rapid internet search you do to avoid exposing your ignorance..
Prof called my work 'desultory'... I had to do a quick googletrawl to find out whether that was a compliment or not ! Not !
by mikroth March 22, 2009
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Juno Watt

The most-talked about celeb of 2009... everyone's talking to her on their cellphones... in TV interviews... can't resist mentioning her to their friends...
'Juno Watt ? I think I may be pregnant...'

'Juno Watt ? I got tickets for Mariah's tour...
by mikroth December 12, 2009
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co-promo

media term for those current TV shows where wannabees or one-star celebs hoping to raise their public profile are encouraged to compete, be humiliated, bullied, or patronised on camera...

Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
'Jeez ! Yet another co-promo on TV... this time it's the Whiplash School of Cookery comp...but dammit, I love them all...it's so addictive...'
by mikroth February 6, 2009
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heartsploitation

used of films, memoirs, poetry, distorting or falsifying the truth to grab your emotions -- successfully !
'You read that Frey 'memoir' that Oprah was plugging, yet ?'

'Memoir shit ! Great story, blame his publisher for marketing a novel as a memoir -- sheer heartsploitation ! My girl wept buckets, then blamed me for spilling the beans...'
by mikroth August 20, 2008
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noffie

abbreviation for 'non-f***ing friendz', with a comfy sound to it..

can be exes you've mutually accepted as good pals, or some gay guy who's savvy and amusing, or anyone else in your close posse...
'Hey, didn't I see you with your ex again the other day ?'
'Oh, we're noffies now, it's great and we've moved on...'

'Oooh, who's that cutebum you're running, along with your steady ?'
'Oh, isn't he sweet ? He's gay, so we're just noffies... though I wouldn't mind giving him a test run...'
by mikroth January 6, 2008
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Hallowgoodbuymas

A couple of puns to point a cynical view of that period from around Halloween to the New Year Sales which comes and goes in a tsunami of commerce...
'Jeez ! Halloween already ! We're into the hysteria of Hallowgoodbuymas now...'

'I'd love to be somewhere at this time of year far away from the stores, and lists of obligatory presents... I call it Hallowgoodbuymas...'
by mikroth November 19, 2007
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yell-aloud

quick description without self-pity, for intense pain..
'What's it like having a sciatica attack ?'

'In one word -- yell-aloud...'
by mikroth December 22, 2008
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