As mentioned in a previous post, I assisted someone at work in getting their laptop connected to our wireless network. The user was Chinese, and I greeted her with a friendly nihau. A few weeks later I was assisting a user in Personnel. “I heard you are a valuable asset to our company,” she said. …
Category: words
Mar 09
Yiddish curse
“May you inherit a hotel of a hundred rooms, and may you be found dead in every one of them.”
Dec 27
petticoat government
n. A government by women, especially at home. “…instead of being a subject to his Majesty George the Third, he was now a free citizen of the United States. Rip, in fact, was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under …
Nov 01
Halloween Hangover
n. That miserable feeling you have November 1 from eating too much candy the night before.
Oct 18
Staycation
n., a vacation during which you just stay home, either by choice or dictated by finances. Speaking of which, I’m on it for the next two weeks! See ya.
Oct 12
Slutoween
n. A word coined to describe the recent trend in women’s and girls’ Halloween costumes to be increasingly immodest and/or trashy.
