New words added to the OED! Here’s a full list of the words. In addition, the alphabetical range pleb-Ponak has been added to the New Edition. (via Literary Gas)
Month / September 2006
This Week’s Edition of Throwing Money at the Problem Isn’t Necessarily the Answer
Alex Beam opines that the $225 million Joan Kroc gift has done little for NPR: “Here is the problem. What was once an insurgent radio movement now sounds like Chet Huntley reading the evening news. Call it NPR Classic. But NPR management won’t put the old warhorses like Cokie and Linda out to pasture for fear of alienating the loyal listeners who answer the bell during pledge drives.”
He Died With His Hoots On
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Jim Schinneller did not request to run a photo of the back of his head with his death notice in Sunday’s paper. But he was asking for it, his son said, after a lifetime of making people laugh and challenging them to rethink what’s normal.”
Gervais Pulls the Podcasting Plug
Ricky Gervais has put an end to his podcasts, claiming that he “wants to knock it on the head for a while before everybody hates us.” The good news is that the podcasts made so much money that Karl Pilkington may never have to work again.