nincompoopellectual

(n.) -- A person whose ideas and comments online are so inane and silly that he or she comes across as more of a nincompoop than a real intellectual.

"My uncle is smart and all that, he went to some Ivy League college, but in fact, he's a real nincompoopellectual most of the time, with all his silly ideas."

-- Overheard at a Thanksgiving dinner party in Teaneck, New Jersey in 2001

undercleavage

(n.) - The bottom parts of a woman's breasts below the nipples that are visible the bottom of a very short midriff shirt or t-shirt that covers the top of her breasts.

"If that's not a deliberate display of undercleavage on that model in the Vogue photo, I don't know what is!"

-- overheard at a watercooler in Los Angeles

incredulosity

(n.) -- An indistinct but generally high measure of incredulity.

"My disbelief rose beyond incredulity to an even higher degree of incredulosity."

-- overheard at a watercooler in an office building in Providence, Rhode Island, October 1, 2009

chyron

(n.) - television graphics that occupy the lower area of a TV screen, originally coined by the Chyron Corporation which develops and manufactures on-screen graphics; now a commonly-used term for such graphics on TV broadcasts worldwide

"I hate it when the chyron is spelled wrong or contains a grammatical mistake. I often see such chyron mistakes on CNN. Sometimes I think the guys who run the TV control rooms can't spell!"

counterpropaganda

(n.) - Professional and amateur news operations in print or online to identify misleading government lies or corporate product propaganda in order to raise public awareness of truthiness in the general population.

"Look, the only way we're going to turn this society into a better and more informed one is to push our counterpropaganda on the media just as hard as the forces of public manipulation do."

-- overheard at a watercooler in Austin, Texas on March 15, 2011

Bindle

A bound book made from paper with a front cover and a back cover and anywhere from 100 to 300 pages inside, printed on paper and to be read on a comfortable chair at one's leisure.

"I hate reading e-books on a Kindle. Give me a real Bindle anyday!"

-- Overheard at water cooler at a bookstore in Manhattan in June 2009.

comentum

(n.) -- When two people share the same momentum in a foot race, bicycle race or political campaign

"Wow, Jack and Stephen are neck and neck and the race is hardly over. There is some real comentum out there on the track today, and there's no way to know who's going to win."

Overheard at a track and field event in California on January 15, 2012