Neologisms

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated Mon, 4 Mar 2002  9:47:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bapopik at AOL.COM writes:

>    Greetings from a horrible internet machine in the Hermitage at Mount Cook.  I bungeed this morning and did not die.

Some people Web-surf.  Judge Popik Web-bungees.

In a message dated Mon, 4 Mar 2002  9:32:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> writes:

>"to be buffaloed" after all means to be
> flummoxed or intimidated, and obviously derives from the fact that
> the Buffalo Bills football team participated in four consecutive
> Super Bowls, losing each one by increasingly lopsided margins (more
> or less).

folk riddle:
Q.  How do we know O. J. Simpson was innocent?
A.  Because he was a Buffalo Bill, and the Bills always choke.