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Dave Wilton

03 Dec 2025 • 5 min read

Movie poster for Peter Jackson’s 2012 film The Hobbit: An Expected Journey

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OK Boomer

3 December 2025 Ok Boomer is a dismissive reply by a young person directed at a Baby Boomer (or Gen Xer—the traditional generational boundaries are not always observed in the wild. The phrase is rather disrespectful of their elders, but after years of being blamed for not getting “real”

03 Dec 2025 2 min read

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hairbag

1 December 2025 What is a hairbag? And is it a bad thing? The term has been New York City police slang for a veteran officer since at least 1958, when it was recorded in a glossary of police slang in the October issue of Spring 3100, a New York

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