(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
-- overheard at a water cooler in a Manhattan office building, January 25, 2011
by PRwiz101 February 26, 2011
(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
- overheard outside a Manhattan office cubicle
by PRwiz101 August 31, 2010
"I think we found our man in the ongoing murder probe. Now he's going to have to face truth or crimesequences."
Overheard at a watercooler at a police station in Minneapolis on October 15, 2010
Overheard at a watercooler at a police station in Minneapolis on October 15, 2010
by PRwiz101 November 24, 2010
"Last December, my male companion (can I say manpanion?) took me to a
performance of the New York City Ballet's "The Nutcracker "as an early
Christmas gift. I had a great time, too!"
-- heard at a watercooler in Brooklyn on January 3, 2012
performance of the New York City Ballet's "The Nutcracker "as an early
Christmas gift. I had a great time, too!"
-- heard at a watercooler in Brooklyn on January 3, 2012
by PRwiz101 January 10, 2012
(n.) -- an e-book composed in or converted to a digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device; first there were hardbacks and paperbacks, now there are ebacks
"I just ordered Stephen King's latest novel in digital format. For me, an eback is just as a good as a paperback book, even better, because I can store it for use anytime anywhere and read it off a variety of screens."
-- overheard at a watercooler in a bookstore in Chicago on March 24, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler in a bookstore in Chicago on March 24, 2010
by PRwiz101 April 04, 2010
If I was king of the world, I'd set up a youtopia, stuff it with everything I want and call it my own.
by PRwiz101 October 19, 2010
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 21, 2009