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co-promo

media term for those current TV shows where wannabees or one-star celebs hoping to raise their public profile are encouraged to compete, be humiliated, bullied, or patronised on camera...

Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
'Jeez ! Yet another co-promo on TV... this time it's the Whiplash School of Cookery comp...but dammit, I love them all...it's so addictive...'
by mikroth February 6, 2009
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Juno Watt

The most-talked about celeb of 2009... everyone's talking to her on their cellphones... in TV interviews... can't resist mentioning her to their friends...
'Juno Watt ? I think I may be pregnant...'

'Juno Watt ? I got tickets for Mariah's tour...
by mikroth December 12, 2009
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sweetypuss

opposite of sourpuss. When someone asks you what -- say -- your fierce new grade teacher is like, and neither 'sweetie' nor 'pussy-cat' quite fit the bill..
'My new grade teacher ? She comes across all disciplinarian -- but one-to-one she's a real sweetypuss..'
by mikroth December 30, 2008
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heartsploitation

used of films, memoirs, poetry, distorting or falsifying the truth to grab your emotions -- successfully !
'You read that Frey 'memoir' that Oprah was plugging, yet ?'

'Memoir shit ! Great story, blame his publisher for marketing a novel as a memoir -- sheer heartsploitation ! My girl wept buckets, then blamed me for spilling the beans...'
by mikroth August 20, 2008
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noffie

abbreviation for 'non-f***ing friendz', with a comfy sound to it..

can be exes you've mutually accepted as good pals, or some gay guy who's savvy and amusing, or anyone else in your close posse...
'Hey, didn't I see you with your ex again the other day ?'
'Oh, we're noffies now, it's great and we've moved on...'

'Oooh, who's that cutebum you're running, along with your steady ?'
'Oh, isn't he sweet ? He's gay, so we're just noffies... though I wouldn't mind giving him a test run...'
by mikroth January 6, 2008
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whingefest

Now most common in chatgroups -- previously observed at the village well, later the parish pump : a group enjoying a good old communal moan about anything and everything.
'I've given up that chatline -- it's now just a whingefest about everything that's wrong with urban life...'

'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'

'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...
by mikroth December 16, 2007
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eye-skating

When you're reading a boring book out of duty, and your eye just slides over the words without engaging your brain..
'I tried to revise for the exam last night... but it was just eye-skating -- nothing stuck in the mind..'
by mikroth December 22, 2008
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