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Joshua Quitter began a recent article in Time magazine about a Palm's Pre, profiling the man who created it, writing on June 15, 2009: "A few weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"
by PRwiz101 July 3, 2009
Get the booking up a mountainmug. (n.) - Public relations spin that is put on a recent innovation and in the process putting media focus on the exact spin the company hopes to see its new product get
"Wow, if we can put the right spinnovation on the new e-reader we developed, we can leapfrog over the competition."
-- overheard at a watercool at a Silicon Valley computer firm
-- overheard at a watercool at a Silicon Valley computer firm
by PRwiz101 September 6, 2009
Get the spinnovationmug. An apocalyptic feeling or prediction that is characterized by or subject to whim; someone who issues predictions of a future apocalypse who is both impulsive and unpredictable.
"You know, the British doomsayer James Lovelock has some good ideas about climate change and global warming, but his ideas about breeding pairs of humans surviving in an uninhabited and desolate Arctic is completely over the top and apocapricious!"
-- Overheard at a pub in Cornwall, England
-- Overheard at a pub in Cornwall, England
by PRwiz101 May 24, 2009
Get the apocapriciousmug. A portmanteau word combining flattered and insulted; when you are both flattered and insulted by someone's remarks or actions
"Hey, I got a note today from a guy who fished my bestselling novel out of a garbage can in New York and told me he enjoyed reading it. Flattering? Insulting? I'm experiencing some mixed emotions. Maybe I've been flattersulted."
-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010
by PRwiz101 April 1, 2010
Get the flattersultedmug. When Jim Romenesko's news industry blog mentions your name or your newspaper's name with a link to your website.
"Wow, Jim Romenesko linked to my oped piece in the Times today, first time that ever happened! Can't wait to tell my friends that I've been Romenesko'd."
-- overheard in a newsroom in Manhattan, March 12, 2010
-- overheard in a newsroom in Manhattan, March 12, 2010
by PRwiz101 March 30, 2010
Get the I've been Romenesko'dmug. (v). -- to be the victim of someone using their cellphone camera to take video of you in a public setting where you
do something unbecoming and then see the video released online and go viral, without your permission or consent
do something unbecoming and then see the video released online and go viral, without your permission or consent
"I am so upset. Last weekend, some people in the park vidnapped me when I was having an angry meltdown over
some issue and they released the video online and it went viral. I am so embarrassed!"
some issue and they released the video online and it went viral. I am so embarrassed!"
by PRwiz101 January 5, 2014
Get the vidnappedmug. (n.) - The bottom parts of a woman's breasts below the nipples that are visible the bottom of a very short midriff shirt or t-shirt that covers the top of her breasts.
"If that's not a deliberate display of undercleavage on that model in the Vogue photo, I don't know what is!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Los Angeles
-- overheard at a watercooler in Los Angeles
by PRwiz101 October 17, 2009
Get the undercleavagemug.