Sexting was in there as were Wags and muffin top ("referring to a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers cf spare tyre, love handle"). Included for the first time were the internet-era initialisms OMG, BFF and LOL.
Days after the South Park pair appeared on TV, The Oxford English Dictionary published its latest online update. "Sheening" was not the only example of slang to make the news recently. Referencing the amazing behaviour of the actor Charlie Sheen." an alcohol and blow extravaganza, sometimes ending in a hospital stay and/or death. In fact the new name for wasted had already been recorded three months earlier by Urban Dictionary: the online open source directory of slang phrases and neologisms. "The new name for wasted," wrote another. "Apparently sheening is a new verb," tweeted one viewer. It got a big laugh, and social media went to work. "We were just sheening our heads off," agreed Stone. "We did some Charlie Sheening and we were fine," Parker explained. Yet later on the afternoon of the big day, history records them on the red carpet, hairy chests on display under knock-off Ralph Lauren and Versace. "We had a limo and we had people doing our makeup and it was, 'Oh, let's not do this'," Parker told the Letterman audience. But when the day arrived, they got cold feet. They had gone to the trouble of getting copies made of Oscar gowns previously worn by Gwyneth Paltrow (for Stone) and Jennifer Lopez (for Parker). T he other week Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the South Park creators, told the audience of the Late Show With David Letterman about the time they decided to go to the Academy Awards in drag.