INTERNET SLANG (2014)
A Spanish speaker might text his amigo "ADM" or "ay Dios mio", this in English
Oh My God
Munster or Melville.
What is Herman?
This resinous preparation is mentioned in "Puff the Magic Dragon".
What is sealing wax?
(James Risen of The New York Times delivers the clue.) Though it's gotten me a couple of subpoenas, my protection of my anonymous sources stems from my faith in this constitutional amendment.
What is the First Amendment?
Boulder, Colorado is in the Flatiron Range, part of these mountains.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Someone trying to get your goat is one of these, just like the foe of the Billy Goats Gruff
What is a troll?
Thierry was the first name of the man who founded this French company; his last name was really that of a god.
What is Hermes?
The Weddell seal is usually found hanging around this continent.
What is Antarctica?
"The Journalist's Bible" is the AP stylebook; AP is short for this oldest news-gathering agency in the United States.
What is the Associated Press?
What the Arabs call Jebel Musa, "Mountain of Moses", is better known as this.
What is Mount Sinai?
RDV is a cool way to type this word for a meeting.
What is rendezvous?
Soft-bodied crustacean that lives in the castoffs of others.
What is a hermit crab?
Traditionally used on private letters, the pope's Fisherman's Ring is this type of sealing ring.
What is a signet?
(New York Times legal columnist Linda Greenhouse delivers the clue.) I don't often interview Supreme Court justices; to write my articles I usually read these formal statements containing the reasoning & principles of law behind judicial decisions.
What are opinions?
You must be 42" tall to hop on this Disneyland ride; its 14,692-foot namesake in the pennine alps is tougher sledding.
What is Matterhorn?
If you're gaming with a pal online & he doesn't respond, it may be a case of "LD", this "dead".
What is link?
Old Hickory's plantation home near Nashville.
What is the Hermitage?
Navy SEALs know that their name comes from these 3 places where they fight.
What are sea, land, and air?
A "nut graf" gives the essentials of a story; "graf" is short for this.
What is paragraph?
This peak is the only mountain in North America that exceeds 20,000 feet.
What is Denali?
Eminem knows that if someone calls you a "stan" it's not a compliment, it means you're one of these.
What is an obsessive fan (or stalker fan).
It's an old word for people who are now said to have "an intersex condition".
What is hermaphrodite?
As part of the job, this U.S. Cabinet secretary is the guardian of the Great Seal of the United States.
Who is the Secretary of State?
(New York Times reporter
Andrea Elliott delivers the clue.) Just 8 years after getting my degree from this university's graduate school of journalism, I won one of the Pulitzer Prizes that the school administers
What is Columbia?
Not quite 14,500 feet, this California peak is named for geologist Josiah.
What is Mt Whitney?