(c.) -- The increasing number of keyboarding errors (called typos) that find their way into print newspaper stories and online articles and blogs.
"It seems as if nobody proofreads their blogs or news articles anymore. This typocreep is beginning to get out of hand!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in an office building in Manhattan, April 16, 2011
(n.) -- What one arrives at after painstakingly investigating a crime.
"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
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(n.) - a highly-personal blog, often for invited readers only, that is more like a scrapbook than a normal blog.
"Yeh, I have a blog, but it's more of a scrapblog than a blog, because it's mostly just photos and links and quotes I like to collect, just for my own use. It's like a scrapbook on a blog platform, that's all, so I call it my scrapblog!"
-- Overheard at a watercooler in Big Spring, Texas on January 5, 2010
(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
(n.) - Someone who posts on blogs and social networks just to spin other people's more substantial and professional news reports and ideas.
"You know, the blogosphere is now full of so many people who set themselves up as a news karaoke artist, when in fact all they are doing is spinning someone else's commentary. Singing someone else's song. I hate what the Internet is becoming!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Arlington, Virginia on November 1, 2009
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(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
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(n.) -- a person who works from his or her home, often lounging around in pajamas all day or putting on some informal clothes as the day goes on.
"My brother in Alaska has become a certified pajama professional now; he makes a nice living from his home office and never has to wear a suit and tie anymore. I love it!"
Overheard at a watercooler in Seattle on October 25, 2009
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