“You knucklehead!” Where’d we get an epithet like that? Grant tells the story about the wartime cartoon that helped popularize the term. Check out the adventures of R.F. Knucklehead in LIFE magazine. More about cartoons used for war-time education...
exit-level adj.— Note: Thanks to Joe Clark for suggesting this catchword. «Since redefining himself as an “exit-level designer,” Fella has churned out a steady stream of colored-pencil drawings, collages, doodles and fliers, including a series of...
nerdfury n.— «At that point, what drivingblind likes to call the nerdfury will begin. Posters will show up from nowhere to shower you with disdain, tell you how that place used to be good but has now totally sold out and—most important to your...
pre-bay adj.— «Even among those who collect old-fashioned memorabilia such as posters and autographs, the market seems to be somewhat down. Marc Zakarin, president of the Huntington, N.Y.-based memorabilia house It’s Only Rock and Roll, says prices...
past-poster n. a gambler who places a (surreptitious or illegal) bet on a game or race after its outcome has been determined. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
