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Cargando... Shoot the Puppy: A Survival Guide to the Curious Jargon of Modern Lifepor Tony Thorne
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Are you a boboor a wombat? Are you tempted by infobiaor to kick dead whales up the beach? If your answer to any of these questions is 'What are you talking about?', then you definitely need a copy of Shoot the Puppy. Amusing, informative and newly updated for 2007, it guides the reader through the ever-growing heap of contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about our contemporary world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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* al desko : eating at one's workstation
* blook: a book derived from a blog
* the pig in the python : baby-boomers
* 1661 : a reminder that looks can be deceptive (refers to woman who look 16 from the back and 61 from the front)
* BOBFOC : Body off Baywatch, Face off Crimewatch
* Smirting : flirting while smoking
Most of the extended explanations are boring, but some are worth reading. Shoot the Puppy is more a coffee-table flick-through kind of book, than something to read cover to cover. (