(n.) -- A hi-tech tablet gadget like the iPad or the Kindle which whether nerdy-looking or sleek nevertheless becomes a smudge magnet during use at home or office.
"I love the entire concept of the iPad, but I am just worried it's going to become just another smudge magnet in my home."
-- overheard at a watercooler in a San Francisco office building on January 28, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler in a San Francisco office building on January 28, 2010
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Get the smudge magnet mug.(n.) - email letters and messages that appear in your dreams at night while sleeping, only to disappear into thin air upon waking
"Wow, last night I had a dream that I was emailing back and forth with Bill Gates, and he was replying to me, I couldn't believe it. And then I woke up and realized it was all just dream-mail."
-- "Overheard at a watercooler in a Seattle office building
-- "Overheard at a watercooler in a Seattle office building
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Get the dream-mail mug.(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!"
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Get the chyron mug.(adj.) Once a woman reaches middle age and her formerly remarkable and youthful good looks have completely lost their edge, she develops an air of such utter harmlessness that she is no longer attractive to men. A woman is described as "avuncular" when she stops looking like a sexual entity and starts looking like her Aunt Betty.
"At my age, with my looks going into their middle-aged stretch, my nieces and nephews now look at me with wonder and refer to me as their 'avauntcular' auntie. I love it!"
-- Overheard when two middle-aged women were chatting near a watercooler at their office on Madison Avenue in New York
-- Overheard when two middle-aged women were chatting near a watercooler at their office on Madison Avenue in New York
by PRwiz101 August 27, 2009
Get the Avauntcular mug.(n.) -- Those people in any society who are at a huge economic, cultural or moral advantage based on social constructs, ascribed status and/or nationality.
We always hear about the underprivileged class -- those people who have little money and have to struggle all their lives -- but we seldom hear about the overprivileged class: those who have too much money and never have to struggle at all.
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Get the the overprivileged class mug."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
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"Most of my incoming email is boring black-and-white messages, but every once in a while, someone sends me some really cool eye-mail, and I love it!"
-- Overheard at a watercooler at the San Francisco Art Institute
-- Overheard at a watercooler at the San Francisco Art Institute
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