I was watching track and field last night on the Olympics and the announcer was talking about the runners in an upcoming final. He said something like, "we'll see if they "podium'" meaning win gold, silver or bronze. Podium used as a verb -- that's a new one to me. It made me do this> and this.

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Cecilia

"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

I think that is a sports interpretation of a word. Of course, if it is used consistently, it will sneak in to the Webster's by next year. Shakespeare would be proud.

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Lyn Clarke

Interesting, for sure...I like the terms, " lawyer up"..."man up"...and " unleash the lawyers"...I hear those on Nancy Grace a lot.

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Live, Love, Laugh

That's better than the last one I heard around here...
get this, I saw a local TV commercial advertising a Labor Day "Staycation" Celebration.


Ok.. so you don't have enough gas to go anywhere on Vacation so they planned some kind of public city park Staycation complete with live music, fireworks, inflatables, etc.
Things that make you go hummm

X
(who is going on VAcation the old fashion way)

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A thousand times I've failed
Still Your mercy remains,
And should I stumble again
Still I'm caught in Your grace

Staycation: I've heard this word a lot this summer, too. A furniture store uses it in one of their ads. Yeah, I can't afford a real vacation so I'll buy a ton of new furniture so I can enjoy my "staycation". Give me a break.

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Cecilia

"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

They were doing "Staycation" ideas on our news every night this summer. They'd showcase somewhere around the city and kept saying how when you live somewhere, you never take advantage of the things offered in your own city. There's truth to that!

Lisa

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"It's not having what you want,
It's wanting what you've got"

"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the best of everything they have."

I also heard "Phelpsian" on the Olympics. As in" they're on a Phelpsian run. " Meaning they're getting lots of gold?

Not too surprising since up until now they were using "medal" as a verb - "I wonder if he'll medal in this event"