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February 4, 2007
Word du Jour: Schadentraffic
schadentraffic:defn: the vicarious thrill you get while in your office surfing various traffic webcams around the country and taking pleasure at all the poor bastards still sitting in their cars
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Funny, as soon as I heard the word, I instinctively thought of a different definition:
DEF: The Blog traffic generated by readers wanting to see some personal or professional disaster. See the now defunct "Iamfacingforeclosure.com" or some other horrifically embarrassing web page.
See also: Schadenvideotraffic: a similarly embarrassing event posted on YouTube.
Hey, that's the exact feeling I get every day when I'm on my commute over Highway 17 going the opposite way of the bulk of the traffic. Thanks for the new bit of jargon.