PRwiz101's definitions

workburger

(n.) -- a hamburger eaten in the middle of the day during work hours in order to boost energy and satisfy cravings for meat, ketchup, salt and pickles.

"If I need anything now, it's a workburger! Bring it on!"

-- overheard outside an office cubicle in Manhattan on March 23, 2011

by PRwiz101 April 25, 2011

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

flattersulted

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

by PRwiz101 April 1, 2010

booking up a mountain

To climb a mountain trail with vigor and determination

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......"

by PRwiz101 July 3, 2009

spinnovation

(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

by PRwiz101 September 6, 2009

apocapricious

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

by PRwiz101 May 24, 2009

sandtease

(N.) -- When you buy a sandwich in a convenience store thinking that from the looks of the meat or fish or vegetable filling facing out to you on the shelf that it will be full of that filling all the way into the sandwich as well. But when you buy the sandwich and unwrap it, it's barely full of the filling at all, and in fact the outer edge is all you get; the inside of the sandwich was basically empty.

‎''I bought a tuna sandwich at 7-Eleven and there was only a small helping of actual tuna inside -- what a sandtease! It was a completely eye-catching piece of display sales fakery. I hate that!"

by PRwiz101 August 7, 2011