(n.) - Email letters and messages that arrive in your inbox overnight while you are sleeping, often from people in different time zones around the world
"Every morning I check my night-mail to see if anything urgent arrived from overseas. With all these time zones worldwide, you never know who is going to email you and when!"
-- overheard at a watercooler at the UN building in Manhattan
-- overheard at a watercooler at the UN building in Manhattan
by PRwiz101 September 01, 2009
"You know that selfie that Ortiz said he took with Obama? Turns out it was really just a PRfie set up by his Samsung team."
-- overheard at a watercooler at MIT in Boston, April 3, 2014
-- overheard at a watercooler at MIT in Boston, April 3, 2014
by PRwiz101 April 06, 2014
(n.) - the print edition of the daily newspaper which arrives in the morning on your doorstep with news that is already old and stale by at least 12 hours
"I am sick and tired of reading the snailpaper edition of the New York Times! By the time it arrives, the front page is already old news. I much prefer reading the Times online website with the up-dated news as it happens."
-- overheard at a bar in the East Village in Manhattan, November 15, 2009
-- overheard at a bar in the East Village in Manhattan, November 15, 2009
by PRwiz101 November 21, 2009
(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 11, 2010
(n. ) -- Logic that only the most sophisticated GPS devices can track, and therefore not very logical in fact.
"I can't believe my ex-wife said that about me. Only the most sophisticated GPS devices can track that kind of logic. That's what I call GPS logic at work!"
overheard at a watercooler in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2012
overheard at a watercooler in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2012
by PRwiz101 January 11, 2012
(n.) - The idea that our fossil fuel-dependent lifestyle will continue on for many centuries yet to come, thanks to future advances in technology.
"I'm just praying that our car and airplane culture will survive well into the next few centuries thanks to our common belief in technograndiosity. "
overheard at a watercooler in San Antonio, Texas, Nobvember 10, 2010
overheard at a watercooler in San Antonio, Texas, Nobvember 10, 2010
by PRwiz101 November 13, 2010
(n.) -- A convenience store sandwich that looks like it is stuffed with fillings, from the outside view on the shelf, but once you open the plastic wrapping, the sad truth becomes evident that you've been had.
''I just hate it when I plunk down good cold cash for what I think is going to be a big tuna sandwich, but when I open the wrapping, it's just a teasewich, and there's hardly anything inside the bread! They just use the mouth of the sandwich as a come on!"
by PRwiz101 August 08, 2011