News - Powered by Yahoo NewsWWE Submission: The supperviso
Wednesday?s Prompt: Create poetry, prose, a memoir, nonfiction, or an essay, and include at least one example of portmanteau in your post. Also, make sure one example of portmanteau . . .
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:57:40 -0800 -
Jennifer Lawrence, Lily Collins Go Old Hollywood Glam For Vanity Fai
Vanity Fair's 2012 Hollywood issue is here, and there's just one word to sum it up: HOLYOMGLAMOUR. (Okay, so that's not technically a word. But an occasion like this needs a wholly original portmanteau, mmmkay?) The cover features a full dozen of our favorite young leading ladies, who look like they're in attendance at a [...]
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:31:49 -0800 -
Ressa?s reckless ?rappling
Tweet ?Rappler?, a portmanteau word coined from ?rap? and ?ripple?, is the name of a fledgling web site that describes itself as a ?a social news network where stories inspire community engagement and digitally fuelled actions for social change?, and whose team promises ?uncompromised journalism [...]
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:39:47 -0800 -
Celebrities Will Sell Most Anything, As Long As It?s Not Her
It started with Charles Bronson. The year was 1972, and Jsapanese toiletries and men? skin-care company Yanagiya, trying to reinvent itself, changed its name to Mandom (a portmanteau of human and freedom) and signed up the most macho of men to splash aftershave on his face in its commercials. The campaign exploded, and Dentsu, the ad agency behind it, started importing American stars to Japan by ...
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:28:35 -0800 -
Should street fundraising in London be banned
Poll: as Islington Council announces it wants street fundraising banned throughout the borough, we ask whether the practice is a worthwhile service or public nuisance.
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:02:14 -0800 -
Boffins uncloak G-rated teledildonic breakthroug
Remotely kiss a cow, kiss a bunny, kiss your loneliness goodbye A team of robot reseachers have developed a prototype of internet-based remote kissing devices that ? for reasons unexplained ? comes in two versions, one a cartoonish bunny, the other a cow.?
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:45:39 -0800 -
WWE Submission: Kelly vs. the hypochristia
Submission Guidelines: 1. Put the following prompt at the beginning or end of your submission, so readers will know what you?re supposed to do. Wednesday?s Prompt: . . .
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:57:50 -0800 -
THE WEDDING PLANNE
getting married? here is the list of must-haves from sabyasachi mukherjee...
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:33:59 -0800 -
Too many chiefs, not enough Indian
By the end of last year Australia had around 700 too many ICT managers, and 2,700 too few ICT professionals. It?s the classic case of too many chiefs and not enough Indians. The Clarius Skills Index for Computing Professionals is a measure of the skills-demand balance in Australia which is conducted for listed recruitment business Clarius by KPMG Econotech. The December 2011 index which has just ...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:34:23 -0800 -
Occupy D.C. Protester Threw Soda Bottle, Not Brick, Police Sa
After initial reports that an Occupy D.C. demonstrator threw a brick at a U.S. Park Police officer during Saturday's crackdown on the protest movement's camp at McPherson Square, court documents released Monday said it was in fact a bottle of Coca-Cola. [ more ? ]
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:01:02 -0800 -