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'But that wasn't cheating! We weren't married last week!'

DEFINITION: To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation.

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Calendangle

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: calen-dangle

Sentence: Chris always left me calendangling because he could always come up with an excuse for a much higher priority event that was on at the "same" time.

Etymology: calendar + dangle (like a telephone handset when the caller has run off)

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Twistory

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: TWIHST-ur-ee

Sentence: Alex's girlfriend stormed out of the room, "I NEVER dated you, you are twistory to me!"

Etymology: twist + history + story

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Mudate

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: MEW/date

Sentence: Like Joseph Stalin did with Russian history, Fred had to mudate his past. So Fred went through a transmudation, eliminating from his life all the dates and events which he didn't like, especially his first wife and their divorce. His transmudation was such a liberating experience he wrote a best seller self-help book "Mudate Your Way To Success and Happiness".

Etymology: mutate + date

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Optimez

Created by: frostycharlie69

Pronunciation: Op-tee-mez

Sentence: I had to optimez the situation so as not to worry my mother.

Etymology: Merging of "time" and "optimize".

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Fluxcapacitate

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: flux-ka-pass-eh-tate

Sentence: She should have seen it coming: His stringy bleached-white hair, his long trench coat, and his affinity for Deloreans should have been enough to warn her about his ability to fluxcapacitate his way out of an arguement.

Etymology: From the flux capacitor time travel mechanism made famous in "Back to the Future."

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Retrovise

Created by: ChristopherAndersen

Pronunciation: RET ro vize

Sentence: They decided to retrovise their daughter's birthday to AFTER the wedding.

Etymology: retro: backward, and vise: see or view

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Chronoflamming

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: KROHN-oh-flam-ming

Sentence: Twila often mailed post-dated checks to the utility companies, just in case she was a few dollars short, which was still one of the more harmless ways she expressed her congenital need to engage in daily chronoflamming.

Etymology: Chrono- (time prefix) + flamming (trickery or deception)

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COMMENTS:

a very chrono logical sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:13:00

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Liary

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: lie-ah-ree

Sentence: as he realised he'd forgotten her birthday he quickly pulled out his liary to convince her that her birthday wasn't until next week

Etymology: liar, diary

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Diartwist

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: dy/ar/twist

Sentence: Whenever it suited his purpose the diartwist rewrote the diary in the kitchen

Etymology: diary + twist + diarist

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Deloreanate

Created by: fastward

Pronunciation: delor eanate

Sentence: He tried to deloreanate his wedding date for tax purposes.

Etymology: A Delorean automobile was turned into a time machine.

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