Month: February 2010

DEFINITION: v., To find a lost item immediately after purchasing a replacement. n., An item which is lost and cannot not be found unless a replacement is purchased.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Searchpartycle: /surch part eee kel/ Perdita looked high and low for it. Again. How could a tv remote control disappear into the vapours. Here we go again, ripping the couch apart to look for it, but this time without luck. All her guests were arriving for the Olympics party she had organized and so she deputized them to help in the hunt. The show was starting shortly, so she had to make a quick run (her own personal best record speed to Walmart) for a replacement. Sure enough, she arrived with the searchpartycle just as someone found it in the giant bowl of popcorn. Oh well, if she lost it again, she now had a replacement, as long as she didn’t forget where she put that. No wonder they called it a remote control…it was never near her when she wanted it! Etymology: Search Party (a party of people to search for someone/something) & Particle (a tiny piece of anything) Created by: Nosila.

Voodooplicate: /voo-doo-pli-keyt / The spirits always conspire to voodooplicate the item I just purchased to replace the one I just lost. Because of this voodooplication, I seem to have two of everything I own. Etymology: VOODOO – verb – from VOODOO (to act upon with magic; magical) + DUPLICATE (to make an exact copy of)
Created by: Stevenson0.

Replilocate: /rep-li-lo-cate/ The only way I can find my missing things is to replilocate them. I just buy something just like them, and they come out of hiding just to mock me. Etymology: replicate: reproduce or repeat + locate: to find Created by: mrskellyscl.

Substidude: /səbstidoōd/ It wasn*t until she acquired a substidude that Wendy*s boyfriend started paying her much attention. Neither was all that bright. What she was left with was redumbdancy. Etymology: substitute (a person or thing acting or serving in place of another) + dude (a man; a guy) Created by: artr.

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Nosila, 2010-02-24: 22:07:00
cute

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DEFINITION: v., To find a lost item immediately after purchasing a replacement. n., An item which is lost and cannot not be found unless a replacement is purchased.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Voodooplicate: /voo-doo-pli-keyt / The spirits always conspire to voodooplicate the item I just purchased to replace the one I just lost. Because of this voodooplication, I seem to have two of everything I own. Etymology: VOODOO – verb – from VOODOO (to act upon with magic; magical) + DUPLICATE (to make an exact copy of)
Created by: Stevenson0.

Searchpartycle: /surch part eee kel/ Perdita looked high and low for it. Again. How could a tv remote control disappear into the vapours. Here we go again, ripping the couch apart to look for it, but this time without luck. All her guests were arriving for the Olympics party she had organized and so she deputized them to help in the hunt. The show was starting shortly, so she had to make a quick run (her own personal best record speed to Walmart) for a replacement. Sure enough, she arrived with the searchpartycle just as someone found it in the giant bowl of popcorn. Oh well, if she lost it again, she now had a replacement, as long as she didn’t forget where she put that. No wonder they called it a remote control…it was never near her when she wanted it! Etymology: Search Party (a party of people to search for someone/something) & Particle (a tiny piece of anything) Created by: Nosila.

Replilocate: /rep-li-lo-cate/ The only way I can find my missing things is to replilocate them. I just buy something just like them, and they come out of hiding just to mock me. Etymology: replicate: reproduce or repeat + locate: to find Created by: mrskellyscl.

Substidude: /səbstidoōd/ It wasn*t until she acquired a substidude that Wendy*s boyfriend started paying her much attention. Neither was all that bright. What she was left with was redumbdancy. Etymology: substitute (a person or thing acting or serving in place of another) + dude (a man; a guy) Created by: artr.

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Nosila, 2010-02-24: 22:07:00
cute

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DEFINITION: n., A gallant gesture which does not produce the desired effect because of poor execution. v., To offer a small gesture of assistance, which backfires as you trip over your own kind intentions.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Misstention: /miss ten shun/ Leonard always meant well, but in his hurry to impress the fairer sex, his good deeds turned into the misstention kind. His awkward attempts at basic gallantry often came back to bite him. For instance, he tried to impress Mary Jane, the cute new receptionist by holding the revolving door open, only to get his head caught in it. Then when they got up to the office, he leaned on the wall to talk to her and set off the fire alarm. The final misstention was when he bought her a nice hot latte and accidently spilled it all over her new dress, computer keyboard and important report the boss was waiting on. Yes, sometimes the road to Hell is indeed paved with misstentions… Etymology: Miss (fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind;fail to reach or get to) & Intention (an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out;an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions) Created by: Nosila.

Benevoloser: /bənevəloōzər/ Despite his illusions, Charley is a benevoloser. When Cindy broke up with her boyfriend he envisioned himself as her knight in shining armor. He had her over for a gourmet meal where he started by spilling wine on her and ended by tripping and knocking her off her chair. Instead of sweeping her off her feet and winning her heart, he knocked her to the floor and sat on her spleen. Etymology: benevolent (well meaning and kindly) + loser (failure) Created by: artr.

Urbean: /ur-bean/ John’s attempt to be urbane, chivalrous, courteous, polite and just plain well-mannered became urbean when his head got jammed in the doorway helping a damsel in distress.

Etymology: URBEAN – noun – from URBANE (polite, refined and often elegant in manner) + MR. BEAN
Created by: Stevenson0.

Mannerd: /man-nerd/ Even though Sal was a brilliant rocket scientist, he was totally inept in social situations, especially when it came to his approach to women. In his dreams he was dashing, witty and chivalrous, but the reality was that he was well-mannerd because his attempts to be polite and helpful were so awkward. Etymology: mannered (well) polite, courteous + nerd: socially inept Created by: mrskellyscl.

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DEFINITION: v., To ignore a “friend” at work because you don’t want anyone else to know that you are friends. n., A co-worker and secret “best friend” with whom it is best to keep your friendship confidential.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Hushhushpal: /hush-hush-pal/ As hushhushpals Sarah and I pretended to barely tolerate each other at work. Etymology: To keep sth hush hush – to keep it quiet/secret

pal – friend Created by: Missnah.

Nodnodacquaintance: /nod nod akwain tans/ By day, Jill was a mild-mannered accountant and Jack was a mild-mannered sales manager. But no one in their office realized that they had a nondnodacquaintance. They appeared casual and aloof to each other at work. But by night, they were red-hot lovers and neither of their spouses realized that their collegiality actually went from the boardroom to the bedroom. Their clandestine relationship may have had something to do with the fact that they worked for a very religious publisher who had a no tolerance policy towards extra-marital trysts, punishable by termination of both parties. Etymology: Nodding Acquaintance (someone known to you in passing;informal relationship) & Nod Nod (wink, wink, say no more, nuff said, know what you mean, a wink’s as good as a nod to a blind horse…credit Monty Python…meaning secret, hint) Created by: Nosila.

Cryptopal: /crip-toe-pal/ Clay and Doug worked at the same company but their immediate bosses were locked in a vicious feud so they were strictly cryptopals at work. Etymology: crypto + pal Created by: Koekbroer.

Comments on Cryptopal:

Nosila, 2010-02-23: 00:30:00
Cute…so Superman’s secret friend is a Kryptopal??

Incogmigo: /in-kog-mee-goh/ Jenny liked to have a number of incogmigos at work who were used as her contacts to keep track of all the politics and gossip going on.

Etymology: INCOGMIGO – noun – from INCOGNITO (having one’s identity concealed to avoid notice)+ AMIGO (a friend)
Created by: Stevenson0.

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DEFINITION: v., To have the strength of character, persistence of heart, and dimness of wit to follow an unchanging course of action even when it is completely ineffective. n., A person who unhappily does the same thing over and over again.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Notparticularlyprofoundhog: /naht (if you’re from Boston) parr tik ewe larr leee proh fow nd hhhh og/ this notparticularlyprofoundhog woke up the next morning to find everything was the same… she was still broke. Etymology: groundhog, not particularly profound Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Notparticularlyprofoundhog:

Nosila, 2010-02-20: 02:14:00
ewe go, guroundhog!

Blissnorance: /‘blis-nor-ence/ Kimberly’s blissnorence of what happened to discarded sweaters behind the tool shed was well-deserved. Etymology: bliss (happiness) + ignorance (lack of comprehension) Created by: thegoatisbad.

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Nosila, 2010-02-20: 02:15:00
were they purl-loined?

Modemoperandom: /mode dem oper an dom/ Cindy was a creature of habit. She hated changes and so she had problems keeping up with modern technology. Since she never kept her debit receipts, she never knew how much money was in her bank account. And since most of her bills were paid by auto deduction and all her revenue sources were paid by automatic deposit, she had even less clue. She’d swipe her card until it ran out of funds and still kept trying to get money from it, because she was unclear what “Cannot process transaction” really meant. Finally her friend suggested changing banks to help her with her modemoperandom issue. The new bank was called Blunt Bank. Now, whenever she had run out of funds, the message that came up was very simple: “Piss off, you’re broke!” Etymology: Modem ((from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line) & Random (lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance;taken haphazardly)& play on Modus Operandi (an unvarying or habitual method of procedure) Created by: Nosila.

Dumbassiduous: /dum-as-sid-you-us/ I stood in line for 25 minutes because of a dumbassiduous woman who believed if she just tried harder the money would appear in her bank account. Etymology: dumbass: someone who is not very bright; blockhead + assiduous: persistent; Created by: mrskellyscl.

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