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• Gmail 'Mail Goggles' stymie drunk e-mailing
The name is derived from the slang term "beer goggles," or the curious effect of alcohol on one's ability to see the true nature of that "cutie" at the other end of the bar. But you can set up Mail Goggles to protect you from yourself at other ...
• Documents say detainee pushed near insanity
... of what we've suspected all along, that the brig was run as a prison beyond the law. There was an effort to create a Gitmo inside the United States," Jonathan Hafetz of the ACLU's National Security Project in New York said, using the slang word for ...
• Kan. mayor apologizes for blackface skit
He admitted the character's name was meant to be slang. The mayor also told the paper he informed CASA officials of his plans before the skit. The Linda Groth, director of Court Appointed Special Advocates, said she noticed Kuhn's face was darker but ...
• Travel: 40 years hiking the Appalachian Trail
But even if hikers never veer from the trail, there’s no need to survive on GORP (hiker slang for Good Old Raisins and Peanuts). On his hike, Maddrell brought an Outback Oven—a lightweight covered skillet—and surprised his shelter-mates by ...
• post from September 28
New Office Slang — This reads a little like one of those e-mails you get with thirty people on the "To" line, and frankly, I work in an office and I've never heard these words, but I recognize all of the definitions. A whole list of complaints about ...