mikroth's definitions

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

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

infomaniac

Someone who showers you with useless information which you never asked for...

'The guy's such an infomaniac ! I just asked him for the train times, and he told me how many wheels each engine would have...'

'Darling, I said infomaniac not nymphomaniac...I don't want to hear all your day's office gossip straight after sex, puh-leaze..'

'Jeez, get me away from that infomaniac ... who wants to hear her business gossip at a chick party ?'

by mikroth October 2, 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

Tell me...

Bored response to current phrase-viruses :
'Know what..?' and 'How --- is that...?

A : 'Know what ? Four chix gave me their cellphone numbers at the club last night... How cool is that ?...'

B : 'Tell me...'(yawns)

by mikroth January 24, 2009

seepie

colloquially, stands for c.p. i.e. cell-phone

'It's the end of the world ! I lost my seepie...!

'Hey, you forgot your seepie...!'

by mikroth October 19, 2008

happy paper

as used in e.g. the Philippines for celebration wrapping-paper that promises so much at birthday and Christmas, to be eagerly torn off..

' This is the family Christmas morning ? The kids all back in their rooms and the Christmas tree surrounded by torn-up happy paper...?'

by mikroth February 2, 2009