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"I'm used to all the typos in the newspapers these days, but what
really irritates me is when I see a major grypo that neither the
editors nor the proofreaders caught! Whatever happened to correct grammar usage?"
overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper newsroom in Boston, January 23, 2011
really irritates me is when I see a major grypo that neither the
editors nor the proofreaders caught! Whatever happened to correct grammar usage?"
overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper newsroom in Boston, January 23, 2011
by PRwiz101 May 20, 2011
Get the grypomug. (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
Get the beautiful mistakemug. "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
Get the manpanionmug. 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 1, 2010
Get the flattersultedmug. Joshua Quitter began a recent article in Time magazine about a Palm's Pre, profiling the man who created it, writing on June 15, 2009: "A few weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"
by PRwiz101 July 3, 2009
Get the booking up a mountainmug. "Masturbation is one thing, but you know, some pervs go overboard and get into this masturaption mindset and I don't like it at all."
overheard at a water cooler in Miami, Florida, January 6, 2011
overheard at a water cooler in Miami, Florida, January 6, 2011
by PRwiz101 February 19, 2011
Get the masturaptionmug. A typo (one-letter keyboarding mistake, typewriter mistake) that the spell-check function cannot pick up because the word is spelled correctly -- although not for the word you wanted to key in. They are called "atomic typos" because the change of just one letter completely changes the word, although it remains spelled correctly in terms of the spell check function
Examples:
Chris, instead of Christ
war, instead of was
bite, instead of byte
massage, instead of message
Quote: "Wow, the newspaper had an atomic typo on the front page, the writer meant to say "message" but what appeared in the article was "massage". Oops! That's a real atomic typo, and there's very little one can do to stop them!"
Chris, instead of Christ
war, instead of was
bite, instead of byte
massage, instead of message
Quote: "Wow, the newspaper had an atomic typo on the front page, the writer meant to say "message" but what appeared in the article was "massage". Oops! That's a real atomic typo, and there's very little one can do to stop them!"
by PRwiz101 May 15, 2009
Get the atomic typomug.