O'propriation:
The inclusion of advertising, packaging, and entertainment
jargon from earlier eras in everyday speech for ironic and/or comic
effect: "Kathleen's Favorite Dead Celebrity party was tons o' fun" or
"Dave really thinks of himself as a zany, nutty, wacky, and madcap
guy, doesn't he?"
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The inclusion of advertising, packaging, and entertainment
jargon from earlier eras in everyday speech for ironic and/or comic
effect: "Kathleen's Favorite Dead Celebrity party was tons o' fun" or
"Dave really thinks of himself as a zany, nutty, wacky, and madcap
guy, doesn't he?"
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Celebrity Shadenfreude:
Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Tele-parablizing:
Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots:
"That's just like the episode where Jan lost her glasses... - Personal Tabu:
A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition,
that allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
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Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - The love of meat prevents any real change.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - You might not count in the New Order.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation...
From the same category:
- He's dead, Jim!
I know Bones I've seen the script... - Now I lay me down to study,
I pray the Lord I won't go nutty.
And if I fail to learn this junk, I pray the Lord that... - Fact: Fourteen out of every ten people like
chocolate... - Sometimes my NOW is later than it
should be... - The worst thing about censorship is that it
desensitizes people to violence-
censorship IS violence...
