Blip Potential

Blip: "As a linguistic plunger, I invested heavily in blips two decades ago. 'Blip has good upside potential,' it was noted in this space in 1982, when a White House spokesman shrugged off bad financial news with 'We had one bad blip today.' Since then, the usage of this onomatopoeic word has soared as jargonauts in a variety of fields embraced it, and I remain bullish on blips because the word satisfies a need for 'sudden, minor shock; meaningless interruption.'"