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-Anti-citrus
Alone, his comment might
be dismissed as the forlorn rantings of a lone anti-citrus bigot.
- whupp-ass
Juve, plainly bored with Milan's
company, simply opened a large can of whupp-ass on their newly-promoted
hosts.
- Transfer-ban
Chelsea have
denied breaking the rules in their fight for Nigerian teenager John Obi Mikel ,
after the BBC obtained access to a letter from the MU Rowdies to Fifa demanding
a season-long transfer-ban on the Special One and chums.
- e-grocery
Tesco's e-grocery service has
also proved a big success. However, it is based on a very different model
customers' orders are selected, packed and dispatched from a "bricks-and-mortar"
store as opposed to an Ocado-style warehouse.
- paedo-chic
Girlish as they are , they are rather flattering without quite being an
example of what I call in my more refined moments paedo-chic. I refer you
to the resurgence of Miffy and Hello Kitty as style icons.
- hoodied
A pretty, brilliant American girl goes to
sleep in an Oxford sleep laboratory, and never wakes up shot in the night by a
man wearing a hoodie. Chief suspect is her troubled (and hoodied) sort of
boyfriend.
- interest-o-meter
With Davies floundering in his
role as MC, just a few sides left in the drum and the early fixtures barely
registering a flicker on the Fiver's interest-o-meter, it was more in
hope than expectation that we stayed tuned to events at Soho Square rather than
switching the channel to revel at the latest madcap scheme involving mischievous
Toadfish replacing Harold's tuba with Paul Robinson's prosthetic leg on
Neighbours.
- anti-moustache
The official reasoning given for
these anti-moustache sentiments, beyond the operating theatre at least,
are bunkum of the highest order. Employers have argued in the past that facial
hair is unhygienic! An employees' eyebrows, sideburns and arm hair are all
sanitary enough but apparently you can never be sure when an employee might go
postal and use their moustache to daub E.coli all over the workplace. Heaven
knows we've seen it before.
- joke-rock
In the last series of Rock School (Channel 4, Sunday), joke-rock legend Gene Simmons somehow managed to
create a rock'n'roll band from the hallowed halls and manicured lawns of Christ
's Hospital school .
- frumphood
Jess Cartner-Morley The pleated skirt has long been sartorial shorthand for
frumphood.
- KKK-type
And
when he asked me, in his Alabama drawl , if I was English , I thought Another
typical raghead-hating, stars-and-bars, KKK-type redneck.
- nimf-ism
However , motoring
organisations are sceptical about whether motorway drivers can be persuaded to
allow an extra person to share their space - a reluctance dubbed nimf-ism
or not in my front seat.
- snot-dribbling
She slumps, she croons, she recollects the confusions of her
childhood world. There are moments of adult irony and of snot-dribbling
tearful anger.
- hyperbuck
Our Croat
counterparts are the talk of the kiosk this morning after revealing that not one
but two clubs are lining up hyperbuck deals for the really , really ,
really good Ronaldinho.
- screech-fuhrer
This is the brainchild of
screech-fuhrer Perry Farrell, who's been much taken with the recent
flashmob fad, in which upwards of 200 people gather at an appointed place to
execute some pointless task.
- Jowellgate
It's been hard for Gordon Brown to
compete with Jowellgate, loans for ermine, stonking great deficits in the
NHS and Labour rebellions over the education bill.
- death-of-the-Sixties
Riot as a whole is one of
the definitive death-of-the-Sixties artefacts, an aural downer in the
aftermath of the decade that was supposed to change the world
- Cowell-alike
It broadly satirises a pop idol-like TV
show (with Grant as your Cowell-alike) and an out of touch US president
who makes an appearance on it.
- hellpits
The guilds system was a voluntary method of management that gave
every worker a degree of responsibility for his own output, which is rare in
today's Fordist production lines and service centre hellpits.
-
Debenhamed
Time and again he discovers:
"Where there was once production there is only heritage now." Glasgow, he notes
bitterly, "has been Dixoned and Debenhamed". And yet, as he journeys
through this post-industrial, chainstore-massacred landscape, McKie is alive to
what's good.
- eco-renovate
The family rents a ramshackle
cottage in Dorset, but plans to "eco-renovate" a property once the money
from the house sale in France comes through. "We want to be as green as we can,
but on a budget," she says.
- jingothon
If this was an example of
what we can expect at the World Cup, where the England side will field 11
Englishmen, then we're in for a jingothon of blinkered nationalism that
will make Pathe newsreels of the Suez invasion look like models of factual
objectivity
- ultra-materialistic
The change is part of a big push to strengthen Confucian values
among the population of 1.3 billion people in China at a time when moral
compasses have been sent spinning by the country 's rapid shift from
revolutionary communism to ultra-materialistic capitalism
- shit-eater
How he says
what he says, of course, opens us into the central irony of most Amis novels ,
in which the issue of storytelling is always the issue of character, of
self-interest and nuanced self-deception - narrative as the filthy Nabokovian
stream from which the reader, like a shit-eater at the bottom of the
labour camp food chain, must filter moral sustenance
- Googleware
Googleware, the seamless union
of hardware and software, gives the search company the largest computer system
in the world and keeps it ahead of the competition.
- scampishly
I Want You, scampishly
introduced as a slow one for the ladies and all the pretty boys is only slow
compared with the runaway-train velocity of Checkin' it Out and Get Delirious.
- Wagnerphiles
No doubt there are
some Wagnerphiles who are glad to have a culturally acceptable version of
Tolkien, but that does not account for all of his appeal.