Celebrity Shadenfreude:
Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- O'propriation:
The inclusion of advertising, packaging,
and entertainment jargon from earlier eras in everyday... - Poorochondria:
Hypochondria derived form not having medical insurance.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time,
but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland... - Bradyism:
A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in
large families.
A rarity in those born after approximately 1965, symptoms... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
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Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - The love of meat prevents any real change.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - The Tens:
The first decade of a new century.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation...
From the same category:
- A day without orange juice is like a day without orange
juice... - The customer's always right.
The son-of-a-bitch
Is probably rich
So smile with all your might.
Noel... - ANSI is banned at San Quentin;
too many escape sequences... - The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is
your move.
Frank... - Woman 's at best a contradiction still.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line...
