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January 12, 2008
Topics tattoo, jobs, focus, jeans, dictionary, skin, personal, travel, hair, business, body and people
eading Australian dictionary Macquarie has added 85 new words and phrases grouped in 17 categories from business to travel. The collection includes odd words such as 'toad juice', 'slummy mummies', and 'arse antlers' among others. 'Toad juice' is defined as a foul-smelling liquid fertilizer produced from pulverizing cane toads, pests that devastate native wildlife. 'Slummy mummies' refer to mothers who are oblivious to their personal appearance, an antonym of which is so-called yummy mommies. And 'arse antlers' is another term for a tattoo just above the buttocks.
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December 11, 2007
"W00t," an exclamation of joy or excitement used by online gamers and hardcore Internet chat enthusiasts, is the word that best sums up 2007, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The word took the Word of the Year prize in Merriam-Webster's annual poll of favorite new terms such as "facebook," a verb that means to look up someone's profile on the popular online social networking site Facebook, and "blamestorm," to hold a meeting in order to find out who to blame.
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April 3, 2007
Topics toilet, internet, google, humor, free, software, funny, dictionary, bizarre, milk, single, cover, green, california, head and office
Head Honchos at Google Inc. thought it would be funny to pull an elaborate prank on their customers for April Fools Day telling them they could get free Internet access through their toilet. Google's "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) came complete with a mock press release, FAQs, and a step-by-step online installation manual. The release said access is "free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system. "
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January 25, 2007
Australia's Macquarie Dictionary on Wednesday named "muffin top" the word of the year. In this case, muffin top does not mean the top of a muffin - it refers to the roll of fat that overflows out of the top of low-cut or too-tight jeans. Muffin top topped the list in an online Macquerie Dictionary poll, despite the American Dialect Society's nomination for "whale tail," a term for the part of G-string underwear that shows over the waistband of low-cut pants. A whale tail can be either intentional or unintentional.
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January 8, 2007
Topics prince, sleep, dictionary, vacation, wales, marriage, wedding, hand, star, newspaper, law, wife and house
Although grooms-to-be would not be the least bit pleased, Britain's Prince Charles has the legal right to sleep with Welsh virgins on their wedding night if he so desired. The prince became a Welsh landowner when he purchased the 192-acre Llwynywormwood Estate, in the village of Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, last year, and, under an ancient law, he is entitled to sleep with local virgins before the groom - unless their new husbands hand over 65 cents.
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