"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
-- overheard at a pub in southern Taiwan on July 1, 2009
by PRwiz101 July 04, 2009
Get the pre-memory mug.(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
-- overheard at a water cooler in a Manhattan office building, January 25, 2011
by PRwiz101 March 13, 2011
Get the marmalade dropper mug.(n.) -- An image taken from a computer screen or homepage and duplicating it on a newspaper or magazine page (grabbing the image from the screen)
"That YouTube video image in the newspaper today was a screengrab, that's how the editors got it, off the computer screen."
-- overheard in a newsroom at a newspaper in New York, July 3, 1999
-- overheard in a newsroom at a newspaper in New York, July 3, 1999
by PRwiz101 March 10, 2010
Get the screengrab mug.v. To fail to stop at a red light at night in Taiwan, even though the red light does signify "stop".
by PRwiz101 April 07, 2009
Get the Taiwan stop mug.(adj.) - A business marketing plan that allows consumers to know what's behind the entire operation, with no secrets kept inside the proverbial kimono
"The new e-reader runs on an open kimono strategy, and sales are going through the roof."
-- overheard at a watercooler at Tokyo computer firm
-- overheard at a watercooler at Tokyo computer firm
by PRwiz101 August 29, 2009
Get the open kimono mug.(n.) -- the sighing sound one hears on both sides of the generation gap when one side says something the other side just doesn't quite agree with
"You know, every time I talk to my dad, he says a few things that just bother the heck out of me, and I know it's just the generation gap rearing its proverbial head again. It happens so often now, but of course always in a friendly way between younger daughter and older father, that it's more like a generation gasp these days, than a generation gap!"
by PRwiz101 February 25, 2012
Get the generation gasp mug."Newspapers are so yesterday, and they are destined to go the way of the dodo. The newspipe will replace the newspaper, and life will go on with no loss of life or limb, just a few adjustments here and there. I believe the future lies in newspipes, the lovely variety of them all!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in the New York Times building on March 27, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler in the New York Times building on March 27, 2010
by PRwiz101 April 10, 2010
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