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
-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010
by PRwiz101 April 02, 2010
(n.) - television graphics that occupy the lower area of a TV screen, originally coined by the Chyron Corporation which develops and manufactures on-screen graphics; now a commonly-used term for such graphics on TV broadcasts worldwide
"I hate it when the chyron is spelled wrong or contains a grammatical mistake. I often see such chyron mistakes on CNN. Sometimes I think the guys who run the TV control rooms can't spell!"
by PRwiz101 April 05, 2010
(n.) - Professional and amateur news operations in print or online to identify misleading government lies or corporate product propaganda in order to raise public awareness of truthiness in the general population.
"Look, the only way we're going to turn this society into a better and more informed one is to push our counterpropaganda on the media just as hard as the forces of public manipulation do."
-- overheard at a watercooler in Austin, Texas on March 15, 2011
-- overheard at a watercooler in Austin, Texas on March 15, 2011
by PRwiz101 April 03, 2011
(n.) -- A person whose ideas and comments online are so inane and silly that he or she comes across as more of a nincompoop than a real intellectual.
"My uncle is smart and all that, he went to some Ivy League college, but in fact, he's a real nincompoopellectual most of the time, with all his silly ideas."
-- Overheard at a Thanksgiving dinner party in Teaneck, New Jersey in 2001
-- Overheard at a Thanksgiving dinner party in Teaneck, New Jersey in 2001
by PRwiz101 November 02, 2009
"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
Overheard at a track and field event in California on January 15, 2012
by PRwiz101 January 21, 2012
"Did you see that TV clip about a donkey parasailing at a beach in Mexico? Awkwardsome!"
overheard at a watercooler on Madison Avenue in Manhattan on March 31, 2011
overheard at a watercooler on Madison Avenue in Manhattan on March 31, 2011
by PRwiz101 April 03, 2011
(n.) - a mistake made while driving or bicycling along rural roads and a wrong turn turns out to be a great find, leading to a beautiful new place you had never been to before
"Wow, I took the wrong road last night but I ended up at an amazing waterfall in the mountains. It was what I like to call a 'beautiful mistake'."
by PRwiz101 April 26, 2010