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organlegger n. The organlegger was officially dead. His heart went into storage immediately. His skin followed, most of it in one piece, all of it still living. The doctor took him apart with exquisite care, like disassembling a flexible, fragile, tremendously complex jigsaw puzzle. The brain was flashburned and the ashes saved for urn burial; but all the rest of the body, in slabs and small blobs and parchment-thin layers and lengths of tubing, went into storage in the hospital’s organ banks. Any one of these units could be packed in a travel case at a moment’s notice and flown to anywhere in the world in not much more than an hour. If the odds broke right, if the right people came down with the right diseases at the right time, the organlegger might save more lives than he had taken. (Mar. 4, 2005) [full citation…]

ecotistical n. I thought why not change the “g” to “c” in egotistical, thus creating the word ecotistical. This is how I formally define it: Characteristic of those having inflated the truthfulness about their own environmental accomplishments. Characteristic of having an exaggerated sense of environmental importance. An environmental disregard of others. (Mar. 4, 2005) [full citation…]

informational kudzu n. Mapping Web Sites seems pitched at graphic designers hoping to cope with their clients’ informational kudzu. (Mar. 4, 2005) [full citation…]

K’Tini n. Drink enough cocktails, and you forget about that, and that’s where the K’Tini comes in. This is sauerkraut’s first big sex-it-up step, a martini-like drink with a kraut-stuffed olive. (Mar. 4, 2005) [full citation…]

blingosphere n. “Bling bling” is a phrase hijacked from black culture and press-ganged into white culture. “Blingosphere” is an ironic mockery of the original slang—a term so lame that it declares whiteness on its face. Thus, while the original term carries the lameness of white people trying to talk black, the new term is an ironic mockery of that process, and is thus, reverse-cool. (Mar. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

secret disease n. Inger feels the media brainwashing leads to “the insanity of being unacceptable,” which can manifest in overeating or more serious problems, like the Princess Disease (bulimia) and the Secret Disease (anorexia). (Mar. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

mallsino n. In addition to ensuring our ‘Freedom to Breathe’ (a liberty that was apparently previously restricted), legalizing mallsinos and keeping McFat People for McSuing McFast Food restaurants, our 2005 Legislation also found they have something in common with George Orwell’s 1984: They would like to rewrite the past. (Mar. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

charley n. I hate cocaine, and hated it more when this scumbag referred to it as “charley.” (Mar. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

green language n. Instead, they should be taught English as a second language, Robinson said, knowing that they’ll need to speak properly in order to get a job and earn a living.…Robinson calls standard English the “Green Language” as a way to equate it with earning money. (Mar. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

exformation n. A Danish writer, Tor Norretranders, invented a term for this in his book The User Illusion: exformation. Exformation is short for “explicitly discarded information,” the information you strip out of a message because you know your reader already has it. The more you share with your reader, the less you have to say. (Mar. 2, 2005) [full citation…]

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