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...energy bill last August were lost on the Twitterati. Out of a torrent of mocking tweets came the site Hoekstraisameme.com, which compiles parodies posted by other users who fail to empathize with Hoekstra's plight. The site manages to turn the congressman's name into both a verb and a noun at once: "To Hoekstra is to whine using grandiose exaggerations and comparisons," it asserts, while also inviting users to "submit your Hoekstra." (Read "Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pete Hoekstra: Internet Meme | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...replicate the success of his freshman year, Jeff Cohen’s name could become a verb. This season alone, opposing goalies were owned, pwnd, and Cohened 34 times...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MALE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Cohen Leads Scoring Charge | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...former glory. Instead he shows up with Larita, a race-car-driving native of Detroit who doesn't want to play lawn tennis, is a fan of Lady Chatterley's Lover and demands to know the cook's name ("Cook, I can't call you by a verb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easy Virtue: Jessica Biel Shakes Up the Brits | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...very fluid, like watching someone speak Spanish. So seeing that happen convinced me that it's a real language; it's not people playing dress-up with a different vocabulary. You can speak textbook Esperanto or you could be especially Esperanto by using an unusual word as a verb just because you can make any word in Esperanto a verb, like la cielo bluas ("the sky is bluing") instead of la cielo estas blua ("the sky is blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arika Okrent: Speaking Klingon | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...just rolled out of bed to make it to that 9 AM intensive language class. No morning haze allowed: you will translate, speak, or spout verb forms and do it with a smile. Before 9 AM, though, you may be groggily walking through your House's tunnels to the dining hall to wolf down some combination of eggs, sausages, and bacon. Sure, it isn't healthy, but since you probably stayed up till 4 AM memorizing those verb forms anyway, health has become irrelevant at this point...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Budget Plinko, Part III: Cutting the Bacon | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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