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Food, a snack, comfort food, fast food, gourmet food. Also coffee, tea, wine, beer or a cold milkshake on a hot summer day.
"Let's stop at the next rest stop on the highway and get some throat therapy."
People who are unemployed and using the free time to have fun and explore new areas in their lives while they wait for their next job opportunity.
"Hey, man, I just love being funemployed now. I can have all day and night to enjoy my life and have fun, instead of working for The Man, you know."
-- overheard at a watercooler in a public library in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, June 29, 2009
(n.) - Visually-pleasing email messages and letters that arrive in your inbox with vibrantly-colored backgrounds and icons.
"Most of my incoming email is boring black-and-white messages, but every once in a while, someone sends me some really cool eye-mail, and I love it!"
-- Overheard at a watercooler at the San Francisco Art Institute
(n.) -- A writer or blogger who "trolls" in a multichannel, multimedia environment, trying to bait readers into a reaction that editors want to generate.
"You know, a true newspaper columnist might make controversial arguments or challenge common sense, but a trollumist merely provokes outrage in order to sell papers, draw links and capture increasingly scarce reader attention. I'm sick of them!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Sydney, Australia, November 1, 2009
(adj.) Once a woman reaches middle age and her formerly remarkable and youthful good looks have completely lost their edge, she develops an air of such utter harmlessness that she is no longer attractive to men. A woman is described as "avuncular" when she stops looking like a sexual entity and starts looking like her Aunt Betty.
"At my age, with my looks going into their middle-aged stretch, my nieces and nephews now look at me with wonder and refer to me as their 'avauntcular' auntie. I love it!"
-- Overheard when two middle-aged women were chatting near a watercooler at their office on Madison Avenue in New York
The feeling that some men have when surfing the Internet, as if they cannot esscape the multiplying preponderance of boobs all over the place, from websites to blogs to spam.
"My girlfriend joked to me last night that my computer might be boobytrapped, but what I think she meant was boobtrapped, because, man, I am surrounded by boobs almost everywhere I go online."
-- Overheard at a water cooler at an office in Palo Alto, California
(n.) -- Witty, pithy slogans written on outdoor walls that either denigrate the existence of God or the gods, or praise God or the gods, or sometimes do both.
I saw this Godfiti written on a wall the other day.
"God is dead." -- Nietzsche
''Nietzsche is dead.'' -- God