So I gather from a TV commercial. Time to get rid of the idiot box, I'm thinking.
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Wow, that's got to be one of the least attractive coinages I've heard in a long time. I just hope it's not something you order ... can't imagine people saying "I'll have the ubermeat, please." Or maybe the ubermeat orders YOU?
"omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
"Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review
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Wow, that's got to be one of the least attractive coinages I've heard in a long time. I just hope it's not something you order ... can't imagine people saying "I'll have the ubermeat, please." Or maybe the ubermeat orders YOU?
Yeah, no accident that of the few g-hits ("about 12", including Mr. V's post), one is to a vegan website!
Stranger than that (and that's pretty strange) is their promise to give me another sandwich if I don't like the first one.
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