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Lenny Skutnik n. Every president since has used the device—planting people in the audience to illustrate a key point in the speech—to the extent that speechwriters now use the term “Lenny Skutniks” as slang for any such person used to make a predetermined point. (Feb. 4, 2005) [full citation…]

yacker tracker n. The yak-o-meter is an interesting device. It has a siren and a blinking light. When the noise level reaches above 80 decibels, this yak-o-meter makes a sound. But instead of calling it by its correct name, the kids refer to it as the “yacker tracker.” (Feb. 4, 2005) [full citation…]

RFN n. The rodeo or some arts fair was in town filling us to the brim with total white trash or “RFN’s” as we call them (Running For Nothing). (Feb. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

Canseco n. Every man has a couple of friends who demand a warm handshake and a hug even when you run into them at the newspaper stand (these people are referred to as “Clintons” in male-touching parlance). Some of us know men who would limit their greetings to fist and arm bashes at a funeral (the “Cansecos”). (Feb. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

Clinton n. Every man has a couple of friends who demand a warm handshake and a hug even when you run into them at the newspaper stand (these people are referred to as “Clintons” in male-touching parlance). Some of us know men who would limit their greetings to fist and arm bashes at a funeral (the “Cansecos”). (Feb. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

chela n. By piggybacking on Heineken’s distribution network, FEMSA is hoping to get its chelas (Mexican slang for beer) in the hands of more beer-loving Latinos. (Feb. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

randonneuring n. Randonneuring is long-distance, unsupported endurance cycling, a sport which began in France and Italy. “Randonnee” is a French word for “ramble” or “tour.” (Feb. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

Cosby n. Their success often leads other black people to refer to them, not always charitably, as “Cosbys,” with the implication that they have abandoned their black roots.&helliip;“People will call them ‘Cosby-like,’ which they may say instead of ‘uppity.’” (Feb. 3, 2005) [full citation…]

precariat n. In all big political meetings you now hear people saying that we must re-found the movement outside of the social democratic tradition, by building unity between factory workers and other workers and the excluded, and by recognising that the social “precariat” and the intellectual forces of production are now predominant in political terms. (Feb. 2, 2005) [full citation…]

blogveldt n. I seem to have missed a blogveldt-wide tizzy about book-banning. (Feb. 2, 2005) [full citation…]

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