PRwiz101's definitions

comentum

(n.) -- When two people share the same momentum in a foot race, bicycle race or political campaign

"Wow, Jack and Stephen are neck and neck and the race is hardly over. There is some real comentum out there on the track today, and there's no way to know who's going to win."

Overheard at a track and field event in California on January 15, 2012

by PRwiz101 February 7, 2012

cyberboarding

(n.) - A form of online torture that consists of immobilizing a subject with endless emails of a trivial nature, thus triggering the mammalian gagging reflex causing the captive to experience sensations of nausea.

If I get one more email from my cousin in Boston telling me for the umpteenth time about what he did last weekend, I am going to puke. His constant stream of email messages is nothing but cyberboarding pure and simple, and I plan to put a stop to it as soon as possible.

by PRwiz101 November 7, 2010

YOUTUBIC

(adj.) -- Online comments on blogs and Internet forums that are so inane and stupid they resemble the kinds of comments written about some YouTube videos.

"The level of stupidity in some of the comments in some forums approaches youtubic proportions."

- overheard outside a Manhattan office cubicle

by PRwiz101 August 31, 2010

Skypophobia

(n.) - a phobia relating to feeling very uncomfortable and uneasy if asked
to communicate with others using Skype and usually refusing do use it for this reason

"I just did my first Skype chat the other day, and I must say it felt
very uncomfortable and weird to me. I think I
probably suffer from Skypophobia, and for the most part I prefer
either direct telephone voice calls or emails. I'm Skypophobic."

by PRwiz101 January 22, 2014

blogforce

The blogforce is all those blogs in the blogosphere that support your most recent blog posts and link to your blog as a show of support for your ideas and opinions.

"I'm going to call on the blogforce to get behind my recent posts about climate change and help spread the word around the blogosphere."

-- A student at Tufts University majoring in French.

by PRwiz101 April 2, 2009

Nerkey

A nerd who is also a turkey. Nerd + turkey = nerkey.

"He's such a nerd, Adam is. Actually, he's more than a nerd, he's a nerkey!"

by PRwiz101 May 24, 2008

quote magnet

(n.) - a famous person, living or dead, who people often attribute quotes to, even though he or she might not have actually said the things they are quoted as saying; examples are Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and Winston Churchill, among others.

"You know, Einstein is a real quote magnet. There are websites and blogs all over the Internet that attribute quotes to him that in some cases he never uttered or wrote. It's hard to know what's true and what's not!"

by PRwiz101 January 22, 2010