I expected more from my other creation, AAFL, (all abbreviations for laughter, brought about when I saw someone on Facebook using 'lol', 'rofl', lmao', and 'pmsl' all in the same status update), when I rolled that out. The problem I had with AAFL was my daughter's refusal to use it, because she thinks I'm uncool, (yes, me!), and therefore she didn't spread its use over Facebook and her school friends. The only other people to my knowledge using it are Andy Haynes from off the radio, and my dad. I genuinely had high hopes for both AAFL and 'well imp', but alas it was not to be.
Today though, I came up with an expression that is sure to be a winner. 'Horse-meating'. The expression comes from the frenzy last week when it was discovered that horse meat was found in Tesco burgers, (I'm amazed a trace of animal was found in a supermarket burger), and how quickly all the jokes came and flooded the social networking sites. They were all there last week, then they fizzled out. Then today, it was 'revealed' that Findus beef dishes are predominantly horse. The problem of course, is that we used up all of our jokes last week at Tesco's expense. In future, when something happens that gets the media in a flurry of excitement, hold a few jokes back. Only hold back a couple of middle range puns, it isn't worth sitting on your guaranteed laughs just in case, but you need to save some jokes for when the big story happens again. Nobody did this, and Findus have avoided the stream of gags at their expense.
Failure to hold some jokes in reserve will now be known as 'horse-meating'. Blowing all of your jokes at the first sign; "I can't believe I horse-meated all my jokes last week, now I've nothing for Findus'.
I'm going to send it in to the dictionary people.
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