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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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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
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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
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crash blossoms

(n.) -- a neologism for infelicitously-worded newspaper headlines which at first reading seem to mean one thing but upon second reading mean something completely different; often hard to figure out at first; called "crash blossoms" because one specific headline from a newspaper used the two words -- "crash blossoms" -- in a confusing way
Japan Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms
by PRwiz101 August 30, 2009
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farticle

(n.) - A newspaper article about a continuing news story that everyone is sick of.
"I am so sick of reading farticle after farticle about this continuing saga of the murdered coed in Seattle. I mean, she's dead. Let it go."
by PRwiz101 September 28, 2009
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