Lunch Break Rave
"Lunch break raves" started in Sweden in the fall of 2010. Instead of eating lunch at a desk, workers go to an hour-long dance party. The "lunch break rave" came to New York…
Lunch Break Rager
Flavorpill Media, along with Absolut Vodka, began "Lunch Break" parties in New York City in 2013. New York's workers spend the lunch hour at a dance party instead of at their desks.…
“A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle”
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle" is a saying that has been credited to Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) since at least 1904, but there's no…
“Drink triple, see double, act single”
"Drink triple, see double, act single" has been printed on many gift items, such as T-shirts, buttons and posters. "The big trouble with drink is that it makes too many people see…
“I can walk on water, but I stagger on alcohol”
"I can walk on water, but I stagger on alcohol" is a jocular saying that has been printed on T-shirts. To "walk on water" is to accomplish an impossible task; the miracle of…
“Friends don’t let friends drink light beer”
"Friends don't let friends drive drunk" is a popular service announcement that was started by the Ad Council and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (under the U.S.…
Stawk (stock)
"Stawk" is a spelling of "stock" that became popularly used on financial blogs, especially among the comments. "Blew chip stawks" was cited in print in June 2006 and…
Heroin Highway (Eighth Avenue; Long Island Expressway)
A "heroin highway" is any street where heroin is either transported or sold. Hastings Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, was called a "heroin highway" in 1955. The U.S.…
Readathon
A "readathon" (reading + marathon) is when there is a long session of reading; there may be many readers and there may be just one book (such as the Bible, a novel, a dictionary or…
Read-In
A "read-in" (or "read in") protest takes its inspiration from the 1960s civil rights "sit-in" protests. "Read-ins" are usually held to protest cuts in a…
Condoburg (condominium + Williamsburg)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, experienced gentrification in the early 2000s, with many developments and higher rents. Graffiti on the 80 Metropolitan project sign changed "Williamsburg" to…
“I (Babe Ruth) had a better year than he (President Hoover) did”
New York Yankee slugger Babe Ruth (1855-1948) was negotiating a new contract with the team during the start of the Great Depression. Yankee ownership believed that Ruth was asking for too much…
“How come alcohol never kills brain cells that make me want to drink?”
“How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?” ~Anonymous" has been cited in print since at least September 2007 and has been…
“History flows forward on rivers of beer”
"History flows forward on rivers of beer" is a saying about alcohol that has been cited in print since at least 1995. The authorship of the saying is unknown. Google Groups:…
“You don’t have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps”
The game of throwing darts is a popular pub recreation. "You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps" was cited in the book Darts (1975), by Ivan L. Brackin and…
“Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside”
"Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside" is a jocular saying against drinking alcohol. "Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside. ~Author…
“‘I’ before ‘E,’ except in Budweiser”
"I before E except after C" is an old spelling rule, but there are many exceptions. Budweiser is one of the highest selling beers in the United States. The beer joke "I before E…
Jerkocrat (jerk + bureaucrat/Democrat)
"Jerkocrat" (jerk + bureaucrat/Democrat) is an infrequently used political epithet, Both uppercase "Jerkocrat" and lowercase "jerkocrat" have been used, with the…
Dining in the Dark (Dark Dining)
"Dining in the dark" (or "dark dining") is a restaurant concept where blind waiters serve customers who are either blindfolded or have the entire restaurant in the dark, as if…
Terrific Tuesday
The stock market (New York Stock Exchange) on Tuesday in the first half of 2013 had a 20-week-long streak of always entering positive territory at the end of the day. The Wall Street Journal had an…