Month: February 2009

DEFINITION: v. To deny one’s accomplishments, or minimize one’s abilities in order to obtain a job. n. A resume, or list of qualifications, which has been disembellished and disemboweled to meet extremely low job requirements.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Gentrylevel: /jentrÄ“levÉ™l/ When Prince Gustuv found that the family fortune was not what it once was, it became clear that he would have to find a way to make some money. There are few jobs earmarked for the nobility so it looked he would have to downplay his rank and take a (gasp!) gentrylevel position. The interviewer tried hard to not burst out laughing when he saw “formerly know as Prince” on the resume. Etymology: gentry (the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth) + level (a height or distance from the ground or another stated or understood base) play on entry-level Created by: artr.

Comments on Gentrylevel:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-25: 14:40:00
superb

kateinkorea, 2009-02-26: 20:11:00
Very good, and it made me laugh!

Disconjobulation: /dis-con-job-yu-LAY-shun/ With no possible chance to find another job in his highly specialized field, Horace found it necessary to apply for jobs he once considered beneath himself and found a little disconjobulation was necessary in order to ‘qualify’ for such menial positions. Etymology: A play on the word discombobulation, or discombobulate (To throw into a state of confusion) Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Disconjobulation:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-25: 02:15:00
I love the ‘con-job’ in the middle!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-25: 14:39:00
great

kateinkorea, 2009-02-27: 07:50:00
Love it!

Denyigreat: /dee-ny-I-grate/ In these tough economic times the only way I could get a job at the local McDonalds was to denyigreat, which was difficult because I am. Etymology: deny + I + great + denigrate (disparage) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Mcjobimize: /Mc-Job-i-mize/ To be even considered for the position at Dollarama, Joe had to McJobimize his resume leaving everything out that he did since high school. Etymology: McJobimize – verb – from McJob (a none descript low paying job such as a burger server, or store greeter) + minimize (to represent at the lowest possible amount) Created by: Stevenson0.

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DEFINITION: v. To offer pre-approved credit, loans or sweepstake prizes in order to lock the some poor sucker into permanent usury. n. Junk mail, spam or telemarketing offers for pre-approved credit and loans.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Credebt: /kred + det/ Lonnie just got a new credebt card. It gives him so much credit at such a high rate that he will never get out of debt. Etymology: Credit and Debt – Credit (money made available to borrow) and Debt (the state of owing something) Created by: rombus.

Comments on Credebt:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-24: 14:34:00
Meaning readily apparent, easy to say, a perfect pun, and sticks in the memory. Absolutely Brilliant!

Nosila, 2009-02-24: 21:59:00
That’s probably how they spelled it originally…good word

Flimflamscamjam: /flimflamskamjam/ Trudy found herself paying for one credit card with the next one. She couldn’t wait for the mail to deliver the next pre-approved offer. She was in a complete flimflanscamjam. Her financial plan can be compared to fire walking. If she hesitates at all she is gonna get burned. Etymology: flimflam (a confidence game) + scam (a dishonest scheme; a fraud) + jam (an awkward situation or predicament) Created by: artr.

Comments on Flimflamscamjam:

wayoffcenter, 2009-02-24: 07:19:00
This is one of those “Can’t say it 10 times fast” words.

Mustang, 2009-02-24: 19:02:00
New idea for a sammich: Peanut butter and flimflam jam. Good word!

Gullibullmarketing: /gull-a-bull-mark-a-ting/ Connie’s name was apt. She was adept at gullibullmarketing, and made a fortune luring young people into crippling ‘debtitude’ by scamming them with promises of a rosy credit based future Etymology: gull (to fool someone) + bull market (optimistic market) + marketing (promoting products or services) + gullible (disposed to believing anything or being suckered) Created by: petaj.

Comments on Gullibullmarketing:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-24: 15:10:00
Bullseye!

Nosila, 2009-02-24: 21:57:00
Suitabull word!

Mortalgage: /mort-al-age/ The sales pitch and the rates were good we decided to lock into a 60 year mortalgage. Etymology: MORTALGAGE – from MORTAL + MORTGAGE or MORTAL + ENGAGE Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Mortalgage:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-24: 08:59:00
very clever

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DEFINITION: v. A software update or patch which uses up a ton of memory and hard drive space, stalling the computer with a crippling case of performance anxiety. n. To stall out a computer by installing a software “upgrade”.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Freezedrived: /freez – drivd/ My booting has become freezedrived ever since I applied the latest microstall patch. I now have a slowseepeeyou, a lockedclock and my ram butts badly. Etymology: Freeze + Drive(as in Hard Drive) also play on “freeze dried” >> Freeze (Stop moving or become immobilized) Drive (computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it) Freeze Dried (The substance is frozen and then dried in a vacuum) Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Freezedrived:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-23: 10:51:00
Each verbotomy made me laugh more! Super Duper!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-23: 15:48:00
terrific

TJayzz, 2009-02-23: 17:25:00
Stupendous!

Nosila, 2009-02-23: 21:45:00
PCU around…good word!

kateinkorea, 2009-02-24: 07:58:00
Really good word.

Grimstallation: /Grim-staw-lay-shun/ Since having his computer installed with the latest upgrade, Tom couldn’t believe how slow it was. He came to the conclusion that it had suffered a grimstallation and immediately called the ‘experts’ back in to sort out the problem. Etymology: Grim(unfavourable, not good) + Installation(a set up of a program added to a computer) = Grimstallation Created by: TJayzz.

Comments on Grimstallation:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-23: 10:48:00
Great Create!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-23: 15:50:00
hopefully he didn’t call the brothers grimstallation company – they aren’t noted for their sense of humour

Mustang, 2009-02-23: 18:07:00
Tom no doubt grimbled about that mess.

splendiction, 2009-02-23: 21:27:00
Great word!

Webstuck: /web stuk/ It takes so long for some embedded files, they should call them inbedded files, for they take all night! ET hated spyware, and wished they made spryware, a program for nimble and quick downloads. ET didn’t call it a web stack, he called it a webstuck! While waiting for his software on demand to download, ET not only had time to phone home, but every one on his home planet! Etymology: WEBSTUCK is a play on WEB STACK, Web stack is the term used to refer to software stacks in Web development environments. The stack of software, mainly comprised of open source software, will contain an operating system, Web server, database server, and programming language. One of the most most well-known web stacks is LAMP.
Let us hope it will enlighten our way! Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Webstuck:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-23: 15:52:00
very apt

TJayzz, 2009-02-23: 17:26:00
Like it

Nosila, 2009-02-23: 21:48:00
Beeee good!

Affordapatchee: /aff ord a pat chee/ He had his reservations. After all, this new upgrade, while inexpensive (actually free) could cost him his whole computer system. It would affect his computer Manitouls, he’d be shaman his ancestors. It was definitely accessible and affordapatchee, but it tended to slow down his hard drive, took lots of memory and stalled out his access to the Home Shopping Network and his daily dose of Verbomtomy! No good could come from that…it would be Totem bedlam. Using his Inuituition and wearing his Bow Tie and his Arrow shirt,he decided that he would buy the patch anyway…if his system crashed, he could always Sioux the manufacturers! Etymology: Fort Apache (John Ford movie, starring John Wayne as a commander at Fort Apache, who has sympathy for Cochese and his Native followers. He is replaced (upgraded as it were) by Henry Fonda, who is not so liberal and whose arrogance causes the Natives to uprise and give the Fort trouble…relationships have to be repaired) & Afford ( be the cause or source of;be able to spare or give up) & Patch (a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program;a connection intended to be used for a limited time) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Affordapatchee:

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:53:00
Inuituition ….you crack me up, Hon!

galwaywegian, 2009-02-23: 07:00:00
love it!

silveryaspen, 2009-02-23: 10:45:00
superb injunuity!

Mustang, 2009-02-23: 18:05:00
injunious….

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DEFINITION: v. To win approval by carefully omitting any and all facts which may put the “correct” decision in jeopardy. n. A form of persuasion, or perhaps deceit, which is based on selective omissions.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Deleteful: /de LETE full/ The guy I am now dating is delightful, but the last guy was deleteful. He always “forgot” to tell me things. He didn’t tell me he was dating other women. He said, “You didn’t ask.” He told me what he thought I should know in a nicely packaged facade, and deleted the rest. Etymology: The opposite of delightful.
DELETE: to remove something, or erase something
DECEITFUL: dishonest Created by: kateinkorea.

Comments on Deleteful:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 08:29:00
Well crafted!

Factholes: /fakthōlz/ If you could see Tim’s argument it would look like a slice of Swiss cheese. He is skilled in the use of flash and bluster to camouflage his factholes. When people find how they have been duped, they will sometimes refer to Tim as a certain variety of hole. Etymology: fact (a thing that is indisputably the case) + holes (hollow places in a solid body or surface) Created by: artr.

Comments on Factholes:

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 01:14:00
Into the void!

Skimportune: /skimp-or-tune/ Sally became the not so proud owner of a plastic water bottle facility after the salesman skimportuned her to buy it for the sake of hygiene. He neglected to tell her that water bottles were now banned in her country. Etymology: skimp (scanty) + importune (solicit pressingly) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Skimportune:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 08:36:00
exsellent!

TJayzz, 2009-02-20: 12:09:00
Good one!

Shambassador: /sham bass a door/ Shambassador to the Divided Nations, Vdy Darkneibour sent his envoy to the centre of the Black Sea to campaign for detonation of nuckelhead weapons from any of the nations’ nucklehead submarines. Etymology: shambassador is from sham (deliberately deceive or fake) and ambassador (a “spokesperson” or promoter). Created by: splendiction.

Comments on Shambassador:

Nosila, 2009-02-20: 22:59:00
shambitious word!

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 01:09:00
Love this word. Great Historical-geographical refs!

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DEFINITION: n. The stars, lights and birds that circle your head when you hit it REALLY hard. v. To watch the stars that circle your head after impact.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Traumastrology: /trouməəsträlÉ™jÄ“/ Sidney (aka Lumpy) is working on a new field of study, traumastrology. It is the study of how a person is effected by the alignment of the stars that occur just after a blow to the head. He has worked for years to perfect just the right whack to the noggin. Too little and there are no stars, too much and the ability to gather data is lost. His theory is that a Pisces would react differently than a Taurus to the same concussive event. He may never know. He just can’t seem to recruit test subjects. Friends think he has studied a bit too much on his own. Etymology: trauma (physical injury) + astrology (the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world) Created by: artr.

Comments on Traumastrology:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00
like it

wayoffcenter, 2009-02-19: 06:46:00
The science of the 2X4. Love it!

Mustang, 2009-02-19: 20:51:00
Good one.

Nosila, 2009-02-20: 01:40:00
Deja vu all over again…where do you get your inspiration???

mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:00:00
nice…

Starspangledbanger: /star-spangld-BANG-ehr/ When the stars were whirling around his head and he heard the ‘music’ playing after rapping his head very hard on a low overhang Arnold said aloud to no one in particular, “Whoa…that was really a starspangledbanger.” Etymology: Substituted ‘banger’ for ‘banner’ of Star Spangled Banner. Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Starspangledbanger:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:53:00
love it

silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:36:00
outstanding!

Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:57:00
Bang On!

Concustellation: /con-cus-tell-ay-shun/ Sally was a huge astrology buff and was disappointed to realize that the advent of tiny new planets in her peripheral vison was really just a concustellation, an unfortunate result of running into a tree head first. Etymology: concussion + constellation Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Concustellation:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00
heh!

silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:28:00
the 2nd syllable (cuss) is what might happen after a concustellation!

mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:02:00
very clever..

Conkfetti: /conk fet ee/ Mother Hubbard woke up to hear the kids in the kitchen. She went running and smacked her head on the open cupboard door. Instead of seeing what was going on, all she could see was conkfetti.
Etymology: CONK, CONFETTI Conk – a blow to the head. Confetti – small pieces of colored paper, often in the shapes of stars, birds, flowers, et cetera, that are thrown over people’s heads, usually at celebrations. Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Conkfetti:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 01:02:00
Song of the day: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:52:00
terrific word

Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:59:00
I must Conkfess I love it!

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:38:00
Good one, SA! I must say!

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