Monday, September 23, 2002The Hellatine Dictionary of Bureaucratese
"hellatine;
n., a person who coins or habitually uses words of inappropriately mixed derivation, often Greek and Latin, and usually in an attempt to impress the listener or reader; Also hellatinism, hellatinize.
(Gr. hellen: a Greek + L. latinus : a Latin) " [via blogdriverswaltz.com]
We're going to have great fun with this list at my office. If nothing else, I wonder if I could implement a script to post random definitions on the intranet....
[The Shifted Librarian]
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In what may be the biggest setback for the war on fat since supersize fries, Americans are scarfing down thousands of the gooey, calorie-laden snack cakes at county fairs and restaurants across the country.Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]"We sold 26,000 Twinkies in 18 days. People drove for hours just to taste our Twinkie," said Rocky Mullen, who sells the deep-fried, cream-filled treats for $3 (U.S.) each at the Payallup Fair, 50 kilometres south of Seattle.
As if Twinkies are not sweet enough already, vendors such as Mr. Mullen add chocolate or berry sauce and sprinkle powdered sugar on top...
Hearing about Mr. Sell's invention, Hostess, the company that makes the 71-year-old snack, started promoting deep-fried Twinkies to state and county fairs, where a captive population of junk-food addicts began gobbling them up between pig races and tractor-pull competitions.
How bad are they for your health? After deep-frying, a Twinkie packs an estimated 400 calories and 28 grams of fat.
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