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    Who's The Latest To Get Fired at OK! Magazine?!

    OK! Recruits Former Life & Style Editor Into Its Brutal, Jungle-Like Office

    Things Spiraling Out of Control at OK!, More Heads Set to Roll Soon

    Let's All Go Drink Margaritas With the Staff of OK! Magazine!

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    06/05/09

    In reply to Who's The Latest To Get Fired at OK! Magazine?!
    bated breath dude, unless u have a worm on a hook in there


    also: kentucky based? wtf?


    xxoo

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    06/05/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: also


    Meaning


    Breathing that is subdued because of some emotion or difficulty.

    Origin


    Which is it - bated or baited? We have baited hooks and baited traps, but bated - what's that? Bated doesn't even seem to be a real word, where else do you hear it? Having said that 'baited breath' makes little sense either. How can breath be baited? With worms?


    There seems little guidance in contemporary texts. Search in Google and you'll find about the same number of hits for 'baited breath' as 'bated breath' - around 100,000 each. In one of the best selling books of all time - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, (whose publisher could surely afford the services of a proof-reader), we have:


    "The whole common room listened with baited breath."


    As so often, help is found in the writings of the bard. The earliest citation of the phrase is from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, 1596:


    "With bated breath, and whispring humblenesse."


    Bated is just a shortened form of abated (meaning - to bring down, lower or depress). So, 'abated breath' makes sense and that's where the phrase comes from.


    Geoffrey Taylor, in his little poem Cruel, Clever Cat, 1933, used the confusion over the word to good comic effect:


    Sally, having swallowed cheese

    Directs down holes the scented breeze

    Enticing thus with baited breath

    Nice mice to an untimely death.

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    06/05/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: link for source [www.phrases.org.uk]
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    06/05/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Thanks.
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    Image of Krashstar Krashstar
    06/02/09

    In reply to Things Spiraling Out of Control at OK!, More Heads Set to Roll Soon
    OK? HA!
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    06/02/09

    In reply to OK! Recruits Former Life & Style Editor Into Its Brutal, Jungle-Like Office
    Actually, this is another argument for legalizing medical marijuana: subsidization of the newspaper industry. A big chunk of LA Weekly's advertising currently comes from pot storefront operations with names like Kompassionate Kush taking out quarter-page ads that tout "free joint for new customers."
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    Image of Cutting Makes You Sexy Cutting Makes You Sexy
    06/02/09

    In reply to OK! Recruits Former Life & Style Editor Into Its Brutal, Jungle-Like Office
    Hey! It looks like "Greek" is slang for something, and doesn't actually mean a greek person.


    Wealth of Gawker Knowledge: what is that?*


    *I'm learning so much the last couple of days.

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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    06/02/09

    @Cutting Makes You Sexy: Well, afterwards, you wind up with a lot of tzatziki on your souvlaki, ifyaknowudimean.
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    Image of leonleonleon leonleonleon
    06/02/09

    @Cutting Makes You Sexy: Anal. Don't ask.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    05/18/09

    In reply to Let's All Go Drink Margaritas With the Staff of OK! Magazine!
    Mexican food in the city.. hurl. It's all runny watery sauces and sub-par greasy shit.. Good Mexican food is one of the great tradeoffs of living in the south/southwest.. (it's all we have!) back me up on this one, Cajun Boy..
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/18/09

    @lobstr: Oh absolutely! What passes for Mexican food in this city is criminal, and as someone who's spent a lot of time in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, it REALLY sucks!
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    05/18/09

    @The Cajun Boy: I'll never forget the Cinco Mayo I spent in Chicago where the people I was with was like "hey, we should go have Mexican food!", to which I thought "they have that here??" .. so we went, and to my horror, the salsa was literally as thin as water, enchiladas were burned crunchy -- everything sucked even down to the praline (it was gummy like taffy, hah).. and everyone ate it and loved it none the wiser .. and the weird thing was, all the staff appeared to be Mexican! I guess when you grow up so far from the border, you lose the flava..
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    05/19/09

    @lobstr: But isn't Rick Bayless one of the most respected Mexican food authorities in the US? But then again, Mexican food and Tex-Mex are two different creatures, and I remember ordering nachos at a hotel restaurant in a Chicago suburb (the setting should've been a clue, but I was stuck there) and it was completely flavorless.
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    Image of cheap_sunglasses cheap_sunglasses
    05/19/09

    @lobstr: Don't forget the weather, cost of living, scenery, and quality of life! The Southwest is great. And good luck trying to find anything beyond Mexican Food 101 around NY. I've been looking for 4 years for a restaurant that has machaca on the menu. No dice.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    05/19/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Yeah, but there's a reason you never see him buying his supplies from local Chicago-area markets -- he makes frequent trips to Mexico City and Acapulco then hauls back wheels of Oaxacan cheese and tomatillos and shit.


    Sure, anyone with a PBS show is gonna have quality :D ..

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    lobstr was starred lobstr was unstarred
    Image of lobstr lobstr
    05/19/09

    @cheap_sunglasses: I'm on somewhat of a diet but this thread prompted me to have barbacoa migas this morning }:D
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/19/09

    @lobstr:


    Alas, you were in the wrong part of Chicago. Condolen ces.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/19/09

    @Claire Buoyant:


    Rick Bayless rocks as restaurateur and cookbook author. When Mrs. Smitros and I dined at Topolobambo in February, he was in there working like everybody else and not just being a celebrity.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/18/09

    In reply to Let's All Go Drink Margaritas With the Staff of OK! Magazine!
    The margarita pictured, though better than flat-out sobriety, looks a bit F'd up.
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/18/09

    @Smitros: Which is exactly why I chose it to accompany this post. It looks like the most horrible margarita ever.
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    Image of Kitten_Witawip Kitten_Witawip
    05/18/09

    @The Cajun Boy: No salt?
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/18/09

    @Kitten_Witawip: OK! gets no fucking salt!
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    05/18/09

    @Smitros: I'm gagging just looking at it. And if I had only consumed water today and ended up vomiting into a glass, I'm pretty sure that's what it would look like.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/18/09

    @The Cajun Boy:


    Point taken.


    These poor staffers. As you, they'd be better off chugging straight tequila alone in a dimly lit apartment with a hope of halfway decent carryout. (Then again, my aversion to enforced conviviality among co-workers is, in some extremely small circles, legendary.)

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/18/09

    @Smitros:


    "As you know . . ."

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    Smitros was starred Smitros was unstarred
    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/18/09

    @mattchew03:


    One more reason to order the classic rocks version, I suppose.

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    Image of octopusink octopusink
    05/18/09

    In reply to New Boss In Control at OK! Magazine
    I'm sorry, I just don't see what this has to do with Kari Farrell, aka the Hipster Grifter. I just don't.
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    Image of Just Sayin'....... Just Sayin'.......
    05/18/09

    @octopusink:


    there is a picture of Kari in prison reading OK magazine in this week's issue of the Village Voice

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    Image of TheCaliDude TheCaliDude
    05/18/09

    @I'm Just Sayin'.......: I can't tell if you're serious or whether you're just f#$%ing with everyone.
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    Image of Just Sayin'....... Just Sayin'.......
    05/18/09

    @TheCaliDude:


    I'll have you know you are speaking to a lady. I don't have to take that kind of language.

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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    05/18/09

    @Just Sayin'.......: Fasting is a dirty word?
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    Image of alec_baldwin alec_baldwin
    05/11/09

    In reply to Heads Are Rolling at OK! Magazine
    Oh gawd. Who is going to write about Nick Lachey's horrid singing on One Tree Hill? He sounds like a chipmunk?
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    Image of Crabby Cakes Crabby Cakes
    05/12/09

    @alec_baldwin: Stay out of it, Nick Lachey!
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    05/11/09

    In reply to Heads Are Rolling at OK! Magazine
    "OK! You're fired!"
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    Image of ObamaIsMyPresident ObamaIsMyPresident
    05/11/09

    In reply to Heads Are Rolling at OK! Magazine
    Am I missing something about that headline or is it a typo: "Head Are Rolling...."
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/11/09

    @ObamaIsMyPresident: Nothing clever, that was a typo. Unfortunately I caught it right after I hit the button to publish and it takes a few minutes for edits to update at times.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    05/05/09

    In reply to Newly-Hired Editor At OK! Is Just 'Consulting' (Read: Taking Over)
    his tie knot is bigger than his head. not cool.
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    Image of Krashstar Krashstar
    05/04/09

    In reply to New Top Editor at OK!?
    Working for this guy would not be OK.
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    05/03/09

    In reply to New Top Editor at OK!?
    Oh, Ryan. That headline. That pic. I'm not biting.
    I refuse to make a top joke. *tongue bleeds*
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