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  1. New column: Graffiti tagger gets tagged. http://tinyurl.com/muwt8q
  2. New movie quotes: Find out which raunchy story about Sylvester Stallone was referenced in Tropic Thunder. http://tinyurl.com/nu5ldn
  3. Today is Insult Your Boss Day! http://tinyurl.com/m8ep88 Celebrate with some obscure insults from a new column: http://tinyurl.com/lux8wq
  4. Not what you think: Knock-me-down and strip-me-naked were eighteenth century terms for strong beer and gin, respectively.
  5. New column: What does macaroni mean in the song Yankee Doodle? http://tinyurl.com/mcec5d
  6. Back to basics: Thai asks about the phrase "get rich or die trying" in the new Ask AC column. http://tinyurl.com/n3jjqk
  7. Not what you think: In the seventeenth century, rhino-fat and rhinocerical meant rich, not overweight.
  8. New column: Kerplunk! and other onomatopoeia in slang. http://tinyurl.com/nsvebf
  9. 808, 3008, Super-8, stupid 8-bit: A closer look at the language and cultural references of Boom Boom Pow. http://tinyurl.com/np3bcw
  10. New column: Blood sack, smeck, veck and fangbanger. http://tinyurl.com/llg3lg
  11. Back in the day: In the 18th century, a buz-napper's academy was a school that trained buz-gloaks (pickpockets).
  12. New column: gob, gobsmacked, gobstoppers, Godsmack. http://tinyurl.com/pj2m9v
  13. Movie translation: "I need to B my L on someone's Ts." Forgetting Sarah Marshall http://tinyurl.com/qnqa4j
  14. My last post seems to have disappeared! Last week's column: Miss Thang http://tinyurl.com/mp3tx5
  15. Mix-A-Lot! Inspired by the recent icky Burger King commercial, Slang City revisits Baby Got Back. http://tinyurl.com/rx59bx