Rum

Rum (n.)

An area within a building delineated by walls.  When preceded by a possessive, short for “bedroom.”

Example: “It’s been a long day, I just want to go to my rum.”

Contributor: Brian Zinkel

Teefbrush

Teefbrush (n.)

A small brush used for cleaning teeth

Example: “Damn, yous got a lotta teefbrushes. Whatchu gon’ do wif a hundred teefbrushes?”

Contributor: Sean McBeth

An Illustrated Dictionary

I had a random idea today and decided to follow through on it. I'm putting together a dictionary of bad words - not swear words, but rather words that are bastardizations of real words created by children or grammatically-challenged adults - in the style of a children's dictionary. The first entry is below. I have a few more in the queue that I'll work on, but feel free to suggest words such as "teefbrush" and "puss" (noun meaning small bag often carried by women). Real, correctly spelled/used words need not apply.

I'll eventually put these in an alphabetized PDF with a goofy intro, if the ambition lasts long enough. The first entry comes from my own childhood struggle with words, as remembered by my mother.

maggot-finding glass  (n.)

A lens used to make small objects appear larger.

Example: “Mo-om! Sean’s burning ants again with the maggot-finding glass!”

Contributor: Melody McBeth

I don't understand Facebook

I use Facebook every day for work. I manage our social media outlets to the best of my ability in the face of all the other duties I try to juggle. Occasionally, I attend a webinar or read some articles about "new" strategies for social media (the same five strategies have been recycled for the past two years) to try to keep my skills sharp and offer my organization's followers what they're looking for and coming to expect from a nonprofit's Facebook Page or from a Page in general. So, I like to think I'm pretty good with Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn and even Classmates.com.

But then a strange thing happened.