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The fray that ensues when one joins the fray on the Internet via online discussion boards or comment sections of popular blogs.
"Hey, I just joined the Interfray on whether the government should bail out the newspaper industry!"
-- Overheard at a watercooler in a New York City office building
-- Overheard at a watercooler in a New York City office building
by PRwiz101 June 2, 2009
Get the Interfray mug.(n.) - an exciting book read on an electronic reading device that one cannot put down, similar to how some print books are called "page-turners"
"Wow, Dan Brown's latest book is a real screengrabber. I couldn't put my Kindle down all night!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in a publisher's office in Manhattan, January 23, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler in a publisher's office in Manhattan, January 23, 2010
by PRwiz101 March 10, 2010
Get the screengrabber mug.(n.) - Print newspapers that have folded and are now defunct, such as the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"The list of now-defunct failpapers is getting longer and longer, and I worry how many daily newspapers will survive in the future."
-- Overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper office in Los Angeles
-- Overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper office in Los Angeles
by PRwiz101 November 7, 2010
Get the failpapers mug.(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
Get the quote magnet mug.(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
by PRwiz101 August 30, 2009
Get the crash blossoms mug.To read text on a computer screen, cellphone screen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen; replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print text on paper
by PRwiz101 February 14, 2009
Get the screening mug.(v.) -- to gaze stupidly or in open-mouthed surprise or wonder at someone from another generation for doing or saying something completely surprising or incomprehensible due to the generation gap.
"Whenever I say something old-fashioned to my teenage sons, they just look at me in a totally befuddled way and then generation gape at me in wide-eyed wonder. 'Oh Dad, please!' is what they are thinking, I'm sure!"
by PRwiz101 March 15, 2012
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