Guess what Australia's leading dictionary named 'word of the year' in 2007?Not 2009 or 2008 but 2007???
Drum roll . . . . . POD SLURPING.
It has nothing to do with 7 Eleven convenience stores* and their icy cold slurpees and alien life forms.
From my 2010 WORD ORGIN Calendar for January 26 (thanks Rachel and Kyle):-
pod slurping: Downloading huge quantities of recorded material to listen to on a portable music device is a pastime of many a young person
The Australians, who are good at coming up with slang, gave the name "pod slurping" to the phenomenon.
Three years later and this is the first time I am hearing this term. Is it an age thing? An Australia thing? Had you heard the term before? If I ventured into a local middle school would it be present in the kids' conversations?
Or would they be too busy pod slurping to even converse with one another?
*Another little fact made known to me recently (thanks Corey and his marketing class):- 7 Eleven is the largest chain store in the world surpassing even McDonald's and Starbucks.
See, this blog attempts to entertain and inform.
3 comments:
only slurpping i wanna do is through a straw when i go to 7-11 to pick-up my brain freeze...watermelon, strawberry, blueberry....that kinda stuff..and by the way, do you know where the most slurppies are sold in canada??... winnipeg...
Isn't that like drinking a steaming hot chocolate in July in Palm Springs????
Or is that what Winnipeggers do with all that outdoor ice?????
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