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Boobtrapped

The feeling that some men have when surfing the Internet, as if they cannot esscape the multiplying preponderance of boobs all over the place, from websites to blogs to spam.
"My girlfriend joked to me last night that my computer might be boobytrapped, but what I think she meant was boobtrapped, because, man, I am surrounded by boobs almost everywhere I go online."

-- Overheard at a water cooler at an office in Palo Alto, California
by PRwiz101 August 27, 2009
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newspipe

(n.) - A news platform on the Internet that replaces the traditional daily newspaper on newsprint.
"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
by PRwiz101 April 10, 2010
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pre-memory

Things you knew before you knew how to know them.
"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
by PRwiz101 July 4, 2009
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marmalade dropper

(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
by PRwiz101 March 13, 2011
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word of blog

When news travels fast around the blogosphere, it is called "word of blog". See "word of mouth".
"Ever since I put up my video on YouTube, the news has been travelling around the Internet by word of blog!"

-- A student at Tufts University, March 15, 2009
by PRwiz101 March 31, 2009
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open kimono

(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
by PRwiz101 August 29, 2009
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bachelor pad

"I got a nice studio apartment now in the Village, and it's not only a cool bachelor pad, but I also sleep ON my very cool bachelor pad every night."

-- Posted on a Tokyo bulletin board in Ikebukuro, July 2, 2009
by PRwiz101 July 4, 2009
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