mikroth's definitions

retro-cringe

When you remember, the morning after, something you said, wrote, did, didn't say, etc., the day before..

'I texted undying love to that chick at the party when I got home.. This morning, I'm having retro-cringe, bigtime..'

by mikroth February 10, 2009

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

whingefest

Now most common in chatgroups -- previously observed at the village well, later the parish pump : a group enjoying a good old communal moan about anything and everything.

'I've given up that chatline -- it's now just a whingefest about everything that's wrong with urban life...'

'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'

'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...

by mikroth December 16, 2007

'Amabo!'

Latin for 'I shall love'which happens to be 'Obama' spelt backwards -- thus a rallying-cry for supporters...

'Hey man, what's this 'Amabo!' thing ?'

'Our funky classics prof. has taken to calling out 'Amabo!' when he comes into class, and we call back 'Obama'.. it starts the class with a laugh..

by mikroth January 22, 2009

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

eye-skating

When you're reading a boring book out of duty, and your eye just slides over the words without engaging your brain..

'I tried to revise for the exam last night... but it was just eye-skating -- nothing stuck in the mind..'

by mikroth December 22, 2008

Barbra

an implied reference to the famed Streisand song 'The Way We Were'

'We broke up last week, but we're back now and it's all Barbra..'

'I faced going back home to meet the grizzlies after all these years, but we've made up and it's all Barbra...'

'jeez, honey, can't we drop this little mistake of mine, and be back to Barbra ?'

by mikroth October 24, 2007