Verboticisms

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: o - wem - EF - jee

Sentence: "The oemeffgy I felt was unlike any other feeling of disappointment I ever felt in my entire life when I knew I made the mistake to make a verbotomy cartoon based on the beautiful Katie Holmes and her wedding with the famous scientologist we always see in Mission Impossible [Who was he, again? Ted Cramps?]. I remodeled the face and now she looks exactly like Bai Ling!" - James Gangg [James Gang's evil twin half-brother who slaves for the drawings everyday]

Etymology: Originated from [American English Slang] - OMFG (If you guessed right, you're a genius!) XD

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LOL. BTW, are you cruisin for a bruisin? - petaj, 2007-05-17: 05:48:00

Hey! I'm a genius!!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-17: 07:02:00

@petaj: nah. it's a harmless euphemism. :] @purpleartichokes: good to know you're one, PA! ;] - ohwtepph, 2007-05-17: 07:07:00

Here's a creativity vote. You made me giggle! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-17: 18:28:00

@petaj: Yeah, i didn't get that first joke about the cruisin. I guess I'm not a genius then. LOL - ohwtepph, 2007-05-17: 21:13:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: snaˈfoōl

Sentence: Tom knew it was a mistake to let his brother-in-law Cletis get involved in the house he was building but his wife had insisted. Now with it almost completed and a tear-down order order from the city in hand Cletis (I*ll take care of all the permits and inspections) was nowhere to be found. Tom was left to play the part of the snafool.

Etymology: snafu (in utter confusion or chaos - acronym from situation normal: all f*ed up) + fool (a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: DUH-pif-anee

Sentence: Rodger had worked on his presentation for weeks. Everything hinged on his ability to explain his radical new concept to the executive committee. The fact that he was in a room full of knodding heads didn't prepare Rodger for the duhpiphany moment that was heading towards him at break-neck speed. One properly-placed stupid question was about to send him back to square one.

Etymology: Duh: (as in DUH!) combined with epiphany: (a moment of sudden revelation or insight)

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: DEV-a-start-shun

Sentence: When I found that the turkey had burned to total blackness - that was when the devastartion sank in... out I went to buy a new turkey.

Etymology: A play on the word DEVESTATION - only with the word 'START' replacing the STAT in the middle to reference starting over.

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Created by: coch000

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Created by: shutz

Pronunciation: Bo-ner-rev-a-la-shun

Sentence: He had a bonerevelation when his boss remarked that his almost-complete project's plans used "double quotes" to designate measurements in 'feet'.

Etymology: From "boner", meaning a big mistake, and "revelation", the name of a particular section in the New Testament.

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: ex/pose/hay

Sentence: It was a huge exposeheh when she realized he had said 'would you like to meet my wife' not 'would you like to be my wife'.

Etymology: expose + heh?

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COMMENTS:

Love it - reminds me of a very old song: "I can't get away to marry you today, cause my wife won't let me!" - Nosila, 2008-08-15: 23:15:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: viz - jun - err - or - ee

Sentence: Leticia became a visionerrory when she realized that her lifetime goal of completing her Master's Degree was not going to happen. Her professor had realized that Leticia plagiarized her final paper and it all came crashing down in a moment.

Etymology: visionary, error

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Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation: SIS i fuk

Sentence: It was 3am. Somehow, the warning "This Action Cannot Be Undone" failed to penetrate. In one sisyphuc, by clicking "Revert to Saved," John effectively erased half of his thesis.

Etymology: From the myth of Sisyphus, forced eternally to roll the same big rock up the same big hill. Clayton's comment inspired me to alter the word (from sisyphstant) - not sure about the ethics of such a move, but we could consider it etymological evolution?

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COMMENTS:

Hard to pronounce, but Camus would be proud. - Clayton, 2007-05-17: 15:50:00

sisyphuc would be easier to say, wouldn't it? And perhaps more expressive. - cohenarie, 2007-05-17: 17:03:00

Nice one. Just glad for the ph spelling instead of f. - texmom, 2007-05-18: 07:26:00

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Created by: iwasatripwire

Pronunciation: you-ree-kill

Sentence: My eurekill came when I realized that the problem I was solving relied on gravity pointing upward.

Etymology: eureka + kill

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