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Proposed Definitions:
DEFINITION: Noun: The more-than-coincidental experience where you and most/all your co-workers show up wearing the same colour of clothing that day, and it's not even St.Pat's Day, or Red Fridays or Blue Mondays. Verb: To wear similar colors/clothing by shear chance...ooo wee ooo!
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: Noun: The sign that your biological clock is ticking, because you transfer the attention you would give a cjild to a pet. Verb: You demonstrate your need/readiness to have a child by focussing all your energy and love onto a pet (like you have doggy birthday parties, kitty sleepovers, etc.)
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: Noun: The disappointment you feel when you meet one of your idols (be it a movie or musical star, a politician, an athlete, a famous author/poet/artist...only to find they are not nice and act abrupt/rude to you. Verb: When someone you have idolized for a long time shows they have feet of clay.
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: Noun: The ability to work with a wide variety of people, learn their life stories and share life's big moments with them, only to find that 2 years later, when you have gone separate ways, you run into them again and cannot recall their names. Verb: To become so close to work associates, yet find that out-of-sight, out-of-mind a short time later, you cannot even recall their names!
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: Noun:To be so dependant on computers and other gadgetry that you cannot add simple numbers, form a sentence grammatically or spell correctly. Verb: To be able to launch satellites with your technology, but be unable to carry on an intelligent, correctly spelled and grammatically sound conversation or be able to calculate the amount that 5% sales tax on a $10 item might be...(P.S. It's .50 cents)
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: Noun: Why at big box stores there are close parking spots for the disabled, seniors, parents, people with babies,people with pets, people who drive hybrids, but none for the middle-aged, semi-arthritic, hard-working people who spend the most inside. Verb: To cater to the special interest groups so much, we discriminate against the average person.
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: Noun: The compulsion to do spring things, even though winter has not left. Verb: To rush the planting season, ready your yard and put away your blower and get out your mower, even though the snow still falls, polar bears roam tour area and youhave not yet sent that parka to the cleaners.
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: Noun: New parenthood...the telltale signs, like lack of sleep; the trail of gooky down your shoulder and back of your shirt;you search the flyers for deals on formula and diapers, not cosmetics or new cars. Verb: To transition to living with a new baby and everyone else knows it by the signs.
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2009-04-25
DEFINITION: The craving of an foreign spicy food that makes your nose run and makes your face turn red and makes you profusely sweat that you absolutely love to eat.
CREATED BY: abrakadeborah - 2009-04-24
DEFINITION: To conjure up an image of a person on the internet that you know nothing about on a web site and automatically dislike them because,they are not from your continent of the world.
CREATED BY: abrakadeborah - 2009-04-24
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