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[Victor Steinbok]

Shepp Smith on Fox News within the last half-hour:

    "That and a dollar ninety-six will get you a Starbucks."


On his internet problems with Times-Warner:

    "I'll be screaming at Times-Warner till the cows come home and make
    new cows!"


He's in a particularly snarky mood today.

Speaking of which, OED falls far short on the snark angle:

snark, n.
> An imaginary animal. Also /Comb./



snark, v.
> 1. /intr./ To snore; to snort.
> 2. intr. and trans. To find fault (with), to nag.



snarky, adj.
> /colloq./ Irritable, short-tempered, ‘narky’.


The derivatives snarkily, snarkiness and snarkish seem to be just fine.
"Snarking" is not listed at all.


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