User:PamelaEsoteric/Slang (terminology, usage)

I believe I coined the usage of the word glacial on or about May 6, 2009.

I had gotten tired of telling people they rock, or they're really cool...so I thought of the biggest coolest rockiest thing I could...glaciers...and started referring to the coolest people as glacial.

Googletalk transcript of May 6, 2009: 7:19 AM yesthattom: thanks! u rock! me: thanks for the inspiration...muse-man. ttfn 7:34 AM        me: what's bigger than rock? you...mountain? or maybe it's cool, you...glacier! 7:35 AM        me: ;-> "the glacial tom limoncelli" 7:36 AM        me: but just in a cool way, no bad read on that please yesthattom: np

Googletalk transcript of May 13, 2009: ... 11:46 AM yesthattom: yes, most of it. New blog post on www.everythingsysadmin.com (if you have any editing advice) 11:47 AM        me: ut oh, you got that about me, eh? yesthattom: :-)                 me: regina+i had lunch with her friend who's a big editor at IEEE 11:48 AM         me: told him my 'glacial' coinage and he used it in a sentence 2min later!          yesthattom: Hey, you demonstrate yourself to be a good editor, I start volunteering                      you to edit my stuff. what can I say? :) me: word-y! yeah, baby!!! yesthattom: glacial? me: as in the totally-rocks, ubercool mr. limoncelli 11:49 AM        me: a proper grammatical usage of my 'glacier' coinage yesthattom: ah yes! i remember now. 11:50 AM        me: you make me wanna be your terminal morraine (sounds like poetry) yesthattom: :) 11:51 AM            i gotta go back to work. ttyl!                  me: np! later.

Googletalk transcript of May 18, 2009, P. Howell to Gina: 8:06 PM me: you totally rock! i'm putting you in the 'glacial' category! (that's really cool, and totally rocks)

Googletalk transcript of June 18, 2009, P. Howell to Karen: 8:06 PM me: you're so glacial.

Gmail transcript of July 20, 2009, P. Howell to A. Meyer: On 7/20/09, Andreas Meyer  wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 06:36:11PM -0400, Pamela Lynn Howell wrote: > > GREAT! You so very rock. > > Can I put that on my resume'?

Andy-

What goes on the resume is 'glacial'...a new terminology i've reserved for those who clearly rock but are also very, very cool. (To be truthful, I coined it for Tom.) I am available to provide testimonials on whatever websites you require accreditation! ;->

Googletalk transcript of Sept. 3, 2009, P. Howell to Kharry: 6:50 AM kharbomb78: i dont rock anymore awwwww 7:21 AM me: wait, u don't know my coinage of 'glacial' cuz glaciers are made of ice they're uber-cool, and a lot like (and/or full of)...ROCKS so glacial is someone insanely cool who also totally and completely ROCKS i reserve it only for the most special

Gmail transcript of Sept. 15, 2009, P. Howell to Tony: Pamela Lynn Howell  to	a keller <...@...com> date	Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:12 AM subject	Re: what an ad i would write would say u freakin rock! glacial mf, you are.

if i dug you any more than i do...you'd be the marianas trench already.

---p

Gmail and googletalk transcript of Sept. 15, 2009, P. Howell to various: so, i was having a chat with my friend tom yesterday. i had made a geological reference about him, really a coinage, several months ago. i said he was glacial, because he was uber-cool and he really rocks. (glaciers=cool and rock-y).

i told him i had come up with yet another geological coinage when speaking to my friend kharry. i said, "if i dug you any harder, you'd be deeper than the marianas trench already!"

then tom said:

-- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Limoncelli Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM Subject: Chat with Tom Limoncelli To: pamelahowell@gmail.com

1:50 PM me: i came up with another geological reference just this morning: ""if i dug you any harder, you'd be deeper than the Marianas trench already!" Tom: :-)  me: hiya, sorry for the innundation.   i believe u know i'm on 'broadcast and ignore or respond at will' 1:51 PM Tom: Did you listen to the BBC drama about the Lehman Brother's failure on NPR last weekend? A guy says nearly the same thing!  me: nope.   meme transmission thru the ether with no hearing! very cool  Tom: yup   Not that you aren't brilliant in your own right  me: i know i'm often on 'receive' without knowing it

---p so i went and found the reference, below, which i thought you might enjoy both in general and because of the above: Yours for happy listening: BBC World Service devotes "season" to the Great Recession. "The BBC World Service is to dramatise the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in a radio drama recorded on location in and around Wall Street. This fictionalised account of events over the weekend prior to the bank's demise and the chain of events that led to the critical decision to let Lehman die stars John Shea and John Rothman, and was made with the assistance of New York's WNYC Public Radio. The Day That Lehman Died is written by Matthew Solon and directed by John Dryden... . Solon and Dryden's 60-minute play, which will air on 5 September, will launch a season of programmes on the World Service, the BBC World News television channel and BBC.com investigating and reflecting on the impact of the global recession." The Guardian, 27 August 2009. "'It's a bunch of guys sitting in a room discussing finance. It's potentially such a dry subject. It could be a turkey,' [director John] Dryden says. 'But people who have listened to it say it stands up as a drama of high stakes.' Exactly how do you make collateralized debt obligation come to life? 'It's difficult,' writer Matthew Solon says. 'If you had to explain what a CDO was, it would take 20 minutes of a 57-minute program. But the audience doesn't need to know those details to get the story.'" Wall Street Journal, 29 August 2009.

Gmail transcript of Sept. 16, 2009, bernieS to P. Howell, and P's response: Hi, yeah I heard the BBC radio play the other day. I've long made geological allusions to depth by referring to the Moho, which is even deeper than the Marianas.

-bernieS

see, you totally get it. i needed the info (what, if anything, is deeper than the Marianas!) and you just gave it to me. perfect!

now shhhh, this is a secret. but i've actually dug you so much for so long that there is already a 4th dimensional aspect to it (not just the this-planet geological aspect)... i think i've dug us a wormhole. oops, now i told you.

---p

Gmail transcript of Sept. 16, 2009, JoeD to P. Howell: Interesting stuff. See, when you kept using glacial, I thought you mean "Cold and slow-moving." Hence my confusion.

Googletalk transcript of Sept. 16, 2009, P. Howell to Kharry: the glacial thing i coined for my pal tom kharbomb78: dunno me: and then i think i was talkin to hmmm...i don't remember who. kharbomb78: maybe me: and i said "if i dug you any harder, you'd be deeper than the marianas trench already" kharbomb78: yes u told me lol yes u did me: so i told tom that i had a new geological coinage 9:04 AM kharbomb78: and then i said i need someone to dig me me: and he said some guy on NPR had used almost the exact same phraseology last week and i know i didn't hear it anywhere kharbomb78: omg really me: oh yeah right, i said it about YOU kharbomb78: wow me: yeah, gotta go look it up