Theme to today’s edition:

• E-bail: Using an e-mail to either cancel an appointment or to break up with someone.
• E-bandon: To suddenly stop e-mail someone.
• E-cest: To have cybersex with a family member.
• E-gnoring: To ignore people on the Internet, to ignore someone virtually.
• E-gypt: Being on the wrong side of a bad online transaction.
• E-rand: An online errand or chore.

More words to add to your vocabulary:

• Cinemuck: The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.
• Copafeliac: Somebody who can’t control their urges to grab members of the opposite sex.
• Drink bait: Term used to describe when a person’s role at a bar is to receive free drinks as gifts from unknown people and then give them to his/her friends instead. Typically played by a female, who will give her free drinks to her male buddies.
• Multislacking: Doing multiple slacker-esque things at one time, like watching TV, eating pizza, and chatting online.
• Vacationship: A long-distance relationship in which the couple only gets together for idyllic vacation-like excursions, therefore avoiding the “real-life” issues of dating.

Here are your new words from todays show:

• Brolimic: A guy who is suffering from bulimia.
• Complidiss: A back-handed compliment.
• Digital packrat: An obsessive collector of digital media, for which ample space (disk and physical) may become problematic.
• Re-re-rehab: A person’s second, third or fourth attempt to enter rehab. See Britney Spears.
• Scar vendor: Any amateur tattoo artist that distributes and sells tattoos either without a proper license, or without credible experience.
• Spedestrian: Any person whose walk is the speed of an average man’s run, yet still has natural steps. May cause others in the group to jog in order to catch up.

Add ‘em to your vocabulary:

• Accountant sex: Very planned out formalized sex.
• Ghetto pancakes: Toast covered with butter and syrup.
• Hostage lunch: A meal purchased by the company you work for, often pizza, and delivered for employees who bosses require them to attend a meeting or work over their lunch hour.
• Workend: A weekend in which you have to go into the office to get caught up/ahead on work.

Here’s some new words to add to your vocabulary courtesy of Urban Dictionary:

• Alphaholic: 1) Someone who always wants to be the first to do something or the winner of some event; 2) A person who can text a message faster than they can dial a 10 digit phone number.
• Aqualibrium: When using a water fountain, the point at which the water stream is at the perfect height to sip.
• Mandaid: The manly form of a band-aid. It consists of a strip of duct tape and either a paper towel, napkin, or any absorbent cloth. The duct tape is then placed on any wound.
• Nausty: Someone who is naughty combined with nasty.
• Neighbornet: The neighbor’s wireless network (often used on vacation). Usually unencrypted and slow but great when yours goes down, or you need to do something questionable.
• Ungoogable: 1) A way of not being part of the Google-able world; 2) Things that Google, i.e. the general world, can’t pick up or define the nature of.
• Wikidemia: An academic work passed off as scholarly yet researched entirely on Wikipedia.com.

I talked about how there is no left lane discipline in Calgary, and that many drivers seem to be oblivious to the rule: keep left, unless passing. Here’s an example of a guy who just doesn’t get it:?

Josh,? ?The left lane is not “the passing lane”, it is not “the fast lane”.The rule is: ?Slower Traffic Keep Right.? That means slower than the speed limit.If a vehicle is in the left lane and travelling at the speed limit he has every right to do so.? If you want to go faster then you can pass on the right, a?manoeuvre that takes little or no imagination.If tail-gating someone who is travelling at or exceeding the speed limit in the left lane is a?symptom of the problem, then the problem is that you have s$%t for brains.My custom is to travel at ten kmh over the speed limit (when safe) because if you exceed that you get a speeding ticket.? If I move into the right lane I have to come down to a speed that is below? the speed limit because that is the speed the vehicles in that lane are doing.S%$t-for-brains who charge me from behind and tailgate and try to intimidate me into moving over are offering me two choices:? 1.? drive excessively fast and risk getting a ticket.? 2.? move into the right lane and travel slower than the speed limit.Neither of these choices is acceptable to me so f%*k off.? ?Colin??I appreciate Colin’s passion for the issue, but I disagree with most of what he says. The right lane is not for traffic that travels slower than the speed limit. It’s for drivers going slower than the flow of traffic. The left lane is the passing lane. Talk to any driver who is passionate about driving and knows the international rules of the road, and you’ll soon find out: keep right, except to pass.??I found a good website that explains the issue and the benefits pretty clearly:??Slower Traffic Keep Right