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flap n. His face lit up when he talked about a “flap,” a term used to describe a large number of UFO reports, one March sometime in the late 1990s. (Oct. 8, 2007) [full citation…]

mother glass n. Automated Guided Vehicles do most of the work, shifting around what’s called “mother glass,” large chunks of glass substrate that are polished and cut to size. Today it’s 42 inch screens. (Oct. 8, 2007) [full citation…]

woolsack weathering n. I now know that South Africa is, in part, one of the planet’s oldest continental fragments. I also have a name for the ageing process of those jumbled Karoo koppies—it’s called “woolsack weathering,” which is pretty obvious when you think about it. (Oct. 8, 2007) [full citation…]

butthurt adj. Oh my. dont get so butthurt…i cant even remember what i wrote. (Oct. 7, 2007) [full citation…]

behind-the-counter drug n. The Food and Drug Administration is considering creating a class of medicines dubbed “behind-the-counter” drugs.…The change would let consumers buy routine medicines—including pills for birth control, cholesterol management and migraines—without a prescription, as long as they discuss it with a pharmacist first. (Oct. 7, 2007) [full citation…]

way back n. I dare say that most people who are parents now never rode in a car seat as children. Many of us didn’t even use the car seat belts when riding around town. We scrambled to ride in the “way back” of the family station wagon. (Oct. 7, 2007) [full citation…]

Dearbornistan n. Sharia is just around the corner. Dearbornistan is right in our midst. They want to kill us. It’s in the koran. (Oct. 7, 2007) [full citation…]

skulling n. The age of the birds can be determined by examining the feathers (color and shape), eye color, soft parts around the beak, and what’s known as “skulling” the bird. Young birds, like infants, go through a process like the soft spot on a baby’s head. These openings can be seen by adding water and gently parting the feathers on the top of the bird’s head and viewing the skull through the bird’s skin. This bony structure can be used to determine the bird’s age. (Oct. 7, 2007) [full citation…]

suspenser n. “Mauritius” caters efficiently to a hunger that Broadway hasn’t been gratifying in recent years. That’s the corkscrew-twist drama of suspense, a genre that was a theatrical staple for much of the 20th century.…And “Mauritius” is head and shoulders over recent Broadway examples of what the trade papers like to call suspensers, half-baked plays like John Pielmeier’s “Voices in the Dark” and Stephen Belber’s “Match.” (Oct. 6, 2007) [full citation…]

banyan model n. He proposes that work groups whose members are widely dispersed but need to have high levels of coordination—say, a computer security team protecting a global bank—do not have to assemble everyone in one room to reap the same benefit. Instead, he suggests a “banyan model,” after the Asian tree that puts down roots from its branches. (Oct. 6, 2007) [full citation…]

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