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  • Oxford's word of the year 2023

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 08:06:42 2023
    rizz

    Derived from the word "charisma," "rizz" refers to a person's ability
    to attract a romantic partner through "style, charm or
    attractiveness," dictionary publisher Oxford University Press (OUP)
    said in its announcement Monday. The word received more than 32,000
    votes from the public, OUP added.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/world/oxford-word-of-the-year-2023-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Dec 4 20:37:48 2023
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    rizz

    Derived from the word "charisma," "rizz" refers to a person's ability
    to attract a romantic partner through "style, charm or
    attractiveness," dictionary publisher Oxford University Press (OUP)
    said in its announcement Monday. The word received more than 32,000
    votes from the public, OUP added.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/world/oxford-word-of-the-year-2023-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

    Spring has sprung
    The grass has rizz
    Where last years
    Careless drivers is.
    Burma Shave

    And don't forget Sir Terry Pratchett's contribution to the lexicon:

    Charisntma

    exhibited, IMHO, by a certain orange celebrity.

    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere on Mon Dec 4 20:07:31 2023
    On 04 Dec 2023 20:37:48 -0400, Mike Spencer
    <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

    Spring has sprung
    The grass has rizz
    Where last years
    Careless drivers is.
    Burma Shave

    Burma Shave roadway advert signs were placed along two-lane highways
    before interstates. When interstates came, signs were not allowed,
    and that ended Burma's signage.

    It may have been "riz" instead of "rizz".
    ==============================

    Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous
    for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs.

    Burma-Shave sign series first appeared on U.S. Highway 65 near
    Lakeville, Minnesota, in 1926, and remained a major advertising
    component until 1963 in most of the contiguous United States.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 20:14:06 2023
    Anyone who might be aged out/creeped out by the "rizz" phenomenon
    could entertain an alternative theory that's equally unfounded and
    compelling: What if the term reflects the enduring appeal of Stockard Channing's turn as Betty "Rizz" Rizzo, the independent and sexually
    clued-in icon from the 1970s film Grease?

    Consider this famous nighttime exchange with John Travolta's Danny
    Zuko in the film:

    Danny: "You're looking good, Rizz."

    Rizzo: "Eat your heart out."

    That, as they say, is rizz.

    https://www.npr.org/2023/12/04/1216950808/rizz-oxford-word-of-the-year-swiftie

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Mike Spencer on Tue Dec 5 16:40:18 2023
    On 2023-12-05, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
    And don't forget Sir Terry Pratchett's contribution to the lexicon:

    Charisntma

    Ooo, that's good. Almost like a spectacularly coiffed hair-don't.

    Really enjoyed the Burma Shave quote too; great stuff.

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Dec 7 19:11:18 2023
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    On 04 Dec 2023 20:37:48 -0400, Mike Spencer
    <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

    Spring has sprung
    The grass has rizz
    Where last years
    Careless drivers is.
    Burma Shave

    Burma Shave roadway advert signs were placed along two-lane highways
    before interstates. When interstates came, signs were not allowed,
    and that ended Burma's signage.

    Having been bored to tears by a transcontinental road trip in 1948,
    after I had learned to read, I remember them.

    It may have been "riz" instead of "rizz".

    Yes, it was, I cavalierly changed it to echo the OP "word of the
    year". Mea culpa.

    Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous
    for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs.

    Burma-Shave sign series first appeared on U.S. Highway 65 near
    Lakeville, Minnesota, in 1926, and remained a major advertising
    component until 1963 in most of the contiguous United States.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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