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December 2008

• December 4 - Mistake on the Lake, Filthadelphia, Sewer City, Trashua. Celebrity quote: Travel Columnist Dan Schlossberg
  
• December 11 - lead apes in hell. Celebrity quote: Eighteenth century poet William Shenstone
• December 20 - off the chain, off the hook, off the hizzle. Celebrity quote: Rapper Twista
  

November 2008

• November 3 - the elephant's instep. Celebrity quote: Tech writer Austin Modine
• November 13 - Mary Sue. Celebrity quote: Writer Noy Thrupkaew
• November 19 - floss, ball, big ballin, kemosabe. Celebrity quote: Rapper T.I.
• November 26 - banquet-beagle, feast hound, chow hound, hash hound, gully gut, gobble gut, greedy guts. Celebrity quote: Playwright Ben Jonson.

October 2008

• October 2- mackerel. Celebrity quote: Author Elliot Paul
• October 9 - hamfat, hamfatter. Celebrity quote: Actor Charlie Chaplin
• October 16 - mazuma, ducat, clam. Celebrity quote: Author Leif Enger
• October 23 - Joe Sixpack, Joe Blow, Joe College, Joe Doakes, Joe Bloggs. Celebrity quote: Journalism professor Craig Allen

September 2008

• September 4 - booster. Celebrity quote: Loss prevention specialist John Talamo
• September 11 - put lipstick on a pig. Celebrity quote: Senator John McCain

August 2008

• August 7 - stoner, pot, Uncle Fester, Skunk, Maui Wowie, Square Mackerel, Belyando Spruce, Purple Urkel. Celebrity quote: Director Jonathan Levine
• August 15 - dope. Celebrity quote: The Tubes
• August 28 - PUMA. Celebrity quote: Jonathan Capehart in the Washington Post

July 2008

• July 11 - tricked out, spinners. Celebrity quote: Journalist Perryn Keyes
• July 18 - stink-pot. Celebrity quote: Children's book character Bridget Butt
• July 24 - shipper. Celebrity quote: Nix, writing on Scificool.com

June 2008

• June 5 - steez, swag. Celebrity quote: Rapper Guru
• June 12 - goon, thug, ill, sick, nasty. Celebrity quote: Rapper Plies

May 2008

• May 1 - gooseberry, gooseberry picker, gooseberry eyed, play old gooseberry. Celebrity quote: Author Lucy Maude Montgomery
• May 8 - blue light special, Robert Hall. Celebrity quote: Rick Nelson, writing for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
• May 15 - juicy booty, junk in the trunk. Celebrity quote: Peach Candy
• May 22 - give someone the mitten, talk to the hand. Celebrity quote: author Eleanor Porter
• May 29 - flivver, tin Lizzie. Celebrity quote: Emily Lambert writing on Forbes.com

April 2008

• April 10 - wooden overcoat, cement kimono, cement shoes, concrete overcoat, Chicago overcoat, Chicago typewriter, Chicago piano, Chicago lightning. Celebrity quote: Singer/songwriter John Wesley Harding
• April 17 - scuppie, yuppie, guppie. Celebrity quote: Maria Puente, USA Today
• April 24 - Hail Mary pass, Flutie effect. Celebrity quote: J.P. Vettraino in Auto Week

March 2008

• March 6 - D&D, G&T, M&D, R&R, B&B, grok. Celebrity Quote: Weird Al Yankovic
• March 13 - townie, cutter Celebrity Quote: Brian O’Shea in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• March 20 - cockroach killers, winklepickers. Celebrity Quote: Author Tyler Beard
• March 27 - logrolling. Celebrity Quote: Journalist Brander Matthews

February 2008

• February 7 - bang a uey, frappe, tonic, spa, spuckies . Un-Celebrity quote: Tim, posting on bostoncrazydriving.blogspot.com
• February 14 - dap. Celebrity quote: Singer Sharon Jones
• February 21 - honey wagon. Celebrity quote: Filmmaker Thomas Hildreth
• February 28 - blow-off, grifter, bally, cooch, flattie, scratch, mark. Celebrity Quote: Former Circus Historical Society owner A. W. Stencell

January 2008

• January 3 - bad hair day. Celebrity quote: Ruth Ryon for the LA Times
• January 10 - gwap, lettuce, kale, cabbage, dough, bread, potatoes, cheddar, bricks. Celebrity quote: Rapper Havoc
• January 17 - four fifth, fifth. Celebrity quote: Rapper Kaos
• January 24- crank, counterfeit crank, the falling sickness. Celebrity quote: Elizabethan author Thomas Harman
• January 31 - chillax, moob, fucci, bootylicious . Celebrity quote: Jawaiian Reggae duo Def Tech

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