mikroth's definitions

Cokesi

When you want a drink, but hate to sound like a walking ad...

'Wanna Coke ?'

' mmm...Pepsi ?'

'OK, Cokesi -- let's go !'

by mikroth May 16, 2009

Hallowgoodbuymas

A couple of puns to point a cynical view of that period from around Halloween to the New Year Sales which comes and goes in a tsunami of commerce...

'Jeez ! Halloween already ! We're into the hysteria of Hallowgoodbuymas now...'

'I'd love to be somewhere at this time of year far away from the stores, and lists of obligatory presents... I call it Hallowgoodbuymas...'

by mikroth November 19, 2007

yell-aloud

quick description without self-pity, for intense pain..

'What's it like having a sciatica attack ?'

'In one word -- yell-aloud...'

by mikroth December 22, 2008

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

blogadoccio

A variant on 'bragadoccio', bragging and showing off -- here referred to the attempt to foist a conceited vision of yourself on chat sites, blogs, etc.

'He's quite reasonable to talk to -- but on the web, it's all blogadoccio...'

'She's a damaged person -- so she tries to compensate on the internet with blogadoccio about her tit size, conquests, etc...'

'I've stopped hitting personal websites -- it's all blogadoccio...'

by mikroth October 29, 2007

Barbra

an implied reference to the famed Streisand song 'The Way We Were'

'We broke up last week, but we're back now and it's all Barbra..'

'I faced going back home to meet the grizzlies after all these years, but we've made up and it's all Barbra...'

'jeez, honey, can't we drop this little mistake of mine, and be back to Barbra ?'

by mikroth October 24, 2007

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