Odds and Ends

Pit’s complete waste of bandwidth

glocal news

outsourcing Pasadena coverage to India at Pasadena Now

seen in: The New York Times, Sunday, November 30, 2008

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gestational surrogacy

hiring one woman to bear another woman’s child [aka surrogate motherhood]

seen in: The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, November 30, 2008

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Barack Whisperer

nickname given to Barack Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs

found in: The Washington Post

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to schlep

meaning “to lug“, from German “schleppen“

found in: The Los Angeles Times, “But at least it saves you from schlepping your luggage.”

November 2, 2008 Posted by Pit | language notes | , , , , | No Comments Yet

Lambocop

a policeman driving a Lamborghini police car in Italy

found in: The New York Times

November 1, 2008 Posted by Pit | language notes | , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet