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micturator
Pit wrote 3 months ago: someone who pees, cf. The Guardian, Thursday, August 6, 2009 … more →
ladette thugs
Pit wrote 9 months ago: (young) female criminals, cf. The Daily Mail … more →
carpocalypse
Pit wrote 11 months ago: a term for the present crisis of the American automobile industry, coined by the website jalopnik.co … more →
Twitterati
Pit wrote 11 months ago: people who “twitter“, i.e. – according to Kathleen Parker in The Washington Post, … more →
glocal news
Pit wrote 12 months ago: outsourcing Pasadena coverage to India at Pasadena Now seen in: The New York Times, Sunday, November … more →
gestational surrogacy
Pit wrote 12 months ago: hiring one woman to bear another woman’s child [aka surrogate motherhood] seen in: The New Yor … more →
Barack Whisperer
Pit wrote 1 year ago: nickname given to Barack Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs found in: The Washington Post … more →
to schlep
Pit wrote 1 year ago: meaning “to lug“, from German “schleppen“ found in: The Los Angeles Times, … more →
Lambocop
Pit wrote 1 year ago: a policeman driving a Lamborghini police car in Italy found in: The New York Times … more →
Newsheimer's Disease
Pit wrote 1 year ago: When a politician pretends he didn’t read a certain newspaper so as to avoid to have to commen … more →
Caribou Barbie
Pit wrote 1 year ago: This is, what, according to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, critics call Sarah Palin. In the sam … more →
Patio Man
Pit wrote 1 year ago: “[...] the quintessential suburban American, the service economy worker, the guy who wears kha … more →
Rovian
Pit wrote 1 year ago: = aggressive, or, as considered by the Democrats, dirty, e.g. “Rovian tactics”, named af … more →
Palinism
Pit wrote 1 year ago: “a philosophy delivered without a passport and with a view (on a clear day) of Russia”, … more →
Palintology
Pit wrote 1 year ago: the science dealing with Alaska’s first female governor and US VP nominee, Sarah Palin found h … more →
Hillary Harridan
Pit wrote 1 year ago: “a creepy literary type [... of] irrational, emotional, self-referential women” quoted f … more →
metabolomics
Pit wrote 1 year ago: the science of (the) metabolism (of cells) seen in: The Economist … more →
