Month: September 2010

DEFINITION: n. Annoying neighbors who spend endless hours mowing their lawns, painting their fences, washing their cars, and browbeating you because you have a life. v. To express disapproval for someone’s lifestyle.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Neighsaybor: /nāsābər/ Ray lives next to a neighsaybor. The rules in his community say that you need to get permission from the improvement committee before taking on any exterior home improvement project. With Ray’s ”buddy” on the committee, nothing ever gets done. The group once tried to change the one-member veto rule but they were vetoed. Etymology: naysayer (somebody who says no, denies) + neighbor (a person living near or next door to the speaker or person referred to) Created by: artr.

Comments on Neighsaybor:

galwaywegian, 2010-09-28: 09:38:00
oops! sorry. should have read before I submitted 🙁

Lifenvy: /li-fen-vie/ Cam and Sylvia took their lifenviousness too far when they parked their truck on Trish’s front lawn. She’s never home to take care of her property anyway and she won’t even notice it there. Etymology: life + envy Created by: remistram.

Whoreticulturists: /hor tik kul tur ists/ When Suzy Floozie moved next door to Mona & Dick, she was always embarrassed that her yard did not look like theirs did…a cover of House & Gardens. Of course, they spent every waking moment outside weeding, watering, mowing and fertilising. They in turn found her lack of yardwork offensive. They noticed she was out all night, slept all day, not often alone and dressed scantily. They harassed and derided her at every turn and eventually attacked her. It appears that Mona & Dick were whoreticulturists and while being cuffed by the police, they shouted out “She should have been spade long ago!” and “The only Ho at work in her yard was her!” and “So much for Lawn Order!” Etymology: Whore (hooker,streetwalker,prostitute,someone who exchanges sex for money) & Horticulturists (individuals who practice the cultivation of plants) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Whoreticulturists:

galwaywegian, 2010-09-28: 03:19:00
Ho ,ho ho

Skullandcrossjones: /skul and CROS joanz/ No matter how hard anyone on the court tried, they could never match the beauty and perfection of the Jones family’s property. This was due to the fact that both Mr. and Mrs. Jones were retired landscapers, and each spent at least two hours a day working in the yard. To top it off, they went for walks each weekend in which they pointed to various sections of their neighbors’ yards and whispered to one another, apparently identifying flaws and not bothering to conceal their disapproval. Some of the court’s residents had nearly killed themselves trying to keep up with the Joneses, to no avail. The neighborhood atmosphere became so toxic that after a while, everyone started referring to them as “Mr. and Mrs. Skullandcrossjones.” Etymology: Jones, as in “keeping up with the Joneses” + skull-and-crossbones (a picture of the human skull above two crossed bones, now used as a warning of poison, danger or death) Created by: karenanne.

Comments on Skullandcrossjones:

Nosila, 2010-09-28: 19:44:00
jollyroger over and out!

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DEFINITION: v. To increase the world’s liquid water supply (and dramatically raise the level of our oceans) by accidentally melting the polar ice caps. n. The rising seas and associated flooding due to melting ice caps.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Aquament: /ah-kwa-ment/ Hilda was relieved she didn’t need plastic surgery to aquament her apartment. Etymology: aqua + augment Created by: remistram.

Tipanic: /tīpanik/ Every report of global warming sends Gloria into a tizzy. She feels like a passenger on the Tipanic except that there may not be an iceberg to run into. Etymology: Titanic (a British passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when it was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives) + panic (sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety) Created by: artr.

Icebergwetus: /eys berg wet us/ The rise in oceans due to polar meltdown was setting off bergler alarms in the world. Edna D. World, was so panicked that she told her friends she was suffering from a bad case of icebergwetus. She was in bad need of some glaciation therapy. Etymology: Iceberg (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier) Wet Us (get us soaked) and play on iceberg lettuce (lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head)
Created by: Nosila.

Byebyepolar: /biii biii poh lar/ They said gore was mad, but he proved to be byebyepolar. Etymology: bipolar, bye bye polar bears Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Byebyepolar:

karenanne, 2010-09-27: 15:21:00
Very clever!
“bye bye polar bears” – sniff 🙁

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DEFINITION: v. To exclusively use credit cards, debit cards and/or electronic banking in order to avoid using, or even touching, old fashioned cash. n. A person who never pays for anything using real money.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Creditz: /KREH dits/ Merry Spinder loves to buy everything on credit and has developed an elaborate system of rationalization for this habit. She is such a creditz that she reasons that she is actually making money doing this, because while the credit card company charges 8% interest on what she owes, the money that’s sitting in her mutual fund earning interest is supposedly making more than that. Except she forgot that the stock market hasn’t been doing too well lately, and, oh yeah, paying $39 late fees isn’t helping her “make money” either. This is the same woman who in college thought that if she still had checks in her checkbook, that meant there was still money in the account! Etymology: credit + ditz Created by: karenanne.

Comments on Creditz:

Nosila, 2010-09-24: 23:55:00
Sadly, she ain’t the only creditz around…

Masterhard: /mastərhärd/ Willie hates cash. He makes a point of never touching the dirty stuff. He had a masterhard time when he was told that tickets were on a cash-only basis for the upcoming Johnny Cashless and Plastico Domingo Concert. Etymology: MasterCard (a credit card) + hard (difficult) Created by: artr.

Robberdinero: /rob ber dee ner o/ Robbie’s Dad, Robert, hated touching cash. He thought the bills and coins were full of germs. Robbie and his friends nicknamed him robberdinero, because, to be franc, he had no yen to handle the filthy lucre. “Although you are a sterling character,You know euro-verdrawn at the bank?”, his son reminded him. His father replied, “If yuan your allowance, you will have to get a debit card and make your mark on the world of finance.” Robbie had a ruble-ation and went to pound on doors to get a job. His father is headed for the Loonie bin. Etymology: Robber (a thief who steals from someone) & Dinero (informal terms for money) and a play on Robert DeNiro (actor…famous for the line, “Are you talking to me”???)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Robberdinero:

karenanne, 2010-09-24: 08:05:00
Funny! That must have taken some thought!

Nosila, 2010-09-24: 23:57:00
It’s just my two bits’ worth…

Dollarepsy: /daw-ler-epp-see/ Jim’s dollarepsy was so severe that he ignored the $20 bill that he spotted on his neighbour’s front lawn. Etymology: dollar + epsy (as in affected by) Created by: remistram.

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DEFINITION: v. To expectorate unexpectedly, especially in situations where it is not considered socially acceptable. n. A person who habitually spits, even when among polite company.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Spitiosyncrasy: /spitēəsingkrəsē/ People have learned to give this guy on the bus plenty of personal space. It is well known that he suffers a particular spitiosyncracy. If anybody dares to engage the phlegmonster in conversation they are sure to do it from a distance. Etymology: spit (saliva, typically that which has been ejected from a person’s mouth) + idiosyncrasy (a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual) Created by: artr.

Comments on Spitiosyncrasy:

galwaywegian, 2010-09-23: 14:26:00
heh

Inhospittable: /in hoss pit abel/ anyone that inhospittable was always going to end up in hospittle Etymology: inhospitable spit Created by: galwaywegian.

Rasputum: /rah SPYU tum/ I don’t really enjoy eating with my brother-in-law or sitting anywhere with him for any length of time, because he chews tobacco and seems to think it’s OK to spit anywhere, at any time. I’m always worried that he’s going to accidentally/on purpose spit into my drinking cup at dinner. Worst of all, Rasputum, as I like to call him, somehow got my sister to pick up his nasty habits, too. Etymology: sputum + Rasputin (a person who is felt to have an insidious and corrupting influence) Created by: karenanne.

Comments on Rasputum:

Nosila, 2010-09-24: 02:05:00
love it!

Salivationarmy: /sali vay shun armee/ When Judy Drench went out for dinner with Rudy B. Havior, she did not understand that she would be dating the salivationarmy. Rudy shlurped and shpittled his way through the meal. By the end of the evening, she was a human spittoon. Judy had more DNA samples on her than a CSI lab. Etymology: Salivation (the secretion of saliva) & play on Salvation Army (a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Salivationarmy:

galwaywegian, 2010-09-23: 14:26:00
😀

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DEFINITION: v. To ask a someone a bizarre question in order to get them to think outside their mental little boxes. (And to see if they are actually listening.) n. A creative provocation designed to pull people out of their daily stupor.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Stunmulate: /stun myu layt/ When the geek asked Elvira for a seat for his wheelbarrow, she, being the quintessential helpful sales associate quipped quickly to the question designed to stunmulate her out of a boring sales day. He told her it needed a seat and she proceeded to flourish her tape measure and tell him that if he needed to ride in the wheelbarrow, he’d need a safety approved seat belt, a helmet and a made-to-measure bucket seat. They just needed to measure his seat area…all part of the service. Etymology: Stun (overcome as with astonishment or disbelief) & Stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic;cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Stunmulate:

RightOnTheWin, 2010-09-22: 03:02:00
I like it `.’

Prodvoke: /prädvōk/ During his weekly meetings with his staff, Larry loved to prodvoke people to think outside the box. As he was being fired, he was reminded he worked for a packaging company and that people are paid to think INSIDE the box. Etymology: prod (an act of stimulating or reminding someone to do something) + provoke (stimulate or incite) Created by: artr.

Comments on Prodvoke:

Nosila, 2010-09-22: 18:03:00
carton me, but a good story!

Queery: /KWEE ree/ Ms. Luny, our 7th-grade science teacher, loved to pose queeries that really made us think. My favorite one of all time was, “Why doesn’t the sun come out at night when we need it?” Etymology: query (question) + queer (strange; odd; peculiar) Created by: karenanne.

Comments on Queery:

galwaywegian, 2010-09-23: 14:28:00
brilliant

Mindgame: /ˈmīndˈgām/ Derek enjoys to mindgame “slow” people so they’ll demean themselves. However, the day came when Derek himself became the victim of mindgame. Etymology: Rather obvious. Mind(noun) + Game(verb) Created by: RightOnTheWin.

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