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DEFINITION: The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency.
Verboticisms
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Inlaptitude
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: in/lap/ti/tude
Sentence: Chris' inlaptitude at sorting socks resulted from leaving his laptop at the office.
Etymology: ineptitude + lap top
Dotcompromised
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dot/compromized
Sentence: He was so dotcompromised that he couldn't function at all without being hooked up to his umbilical mouse.
Etymology: dot com + compromise
Gogtechelpendo
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: gog/tech/hel/pendo
Sentence: The girl could not find her homework and in anger screamed. The teachers knew she had Gogtechelpendo.
Etymology: Google/technology/help/Dependant.
Googlocious
Created by: leaffan001
Pronunciation: gu-gol-o-shis
Sentence: Dependance on search sites.
Etymology: From the web site google.
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COMMENTS:
Good Word - leaffan001, 2007-07-19: 19:39:00
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Cyberspacey
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: sigh-burr-space-E
Sentence: Since being diagniosed as cyberspacy, John has begun riding his bike to work because keys are "too much responsibility." He's also given up on the sock thing and only wears sandals. Even then, he's been seen barefoot, one shoe in-hand and searching for the other.
Etymology: "cyber" for the tech dependency + "spacey" for the absentmindedness, also the play on "cyberspace"
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COMMENTS:
Is that Kevin Spacey's brother? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-19: 12:41:00
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Cataloggedoff
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: cat-ah-logd-off
Sentence: he wandered aroung the house completely cataloggedoff, unable to even remember what he was searching for in the first place
Etymology: catalog, logged off
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COMMENTS:
A vote from an ex-cataloguer - petaj, 2007-07-20: 05:03:00
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Morginobbset
Created by: halimay
Pronunciation: mor-g-in-obb-set
Sentence: Oops! I Morginobbset my sock again!!
Etymology: Come Again?
Internutty
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: In + ter + nut + ee
Sentence: I'd probably be able to find my keys if I could go online and search for them... I guess I'm a bit internutty.
Etymology: internet + nutty
Dogpiled
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: dawg-pi-uhled
Sentence: He had Googled, Yahooed, MSN'd, and Asked Jeeves, but he was dogpiled and still couldn't figure out which slot in the drawer the spoons went.
Etymology: Dogpile "All the best search engines piled into one."; dog pile - what my mother used to call my bed
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COMMENTS:
One can only imagine why your bed was called a "dog pile" ;) - ziggy41, 2007-07-19: 04:49:00
hehe! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-19: 06:51:00
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Altavistuffers
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: All-tuh-viss-tuh-furs
Sentence: Danny usually found things in the last place he looked, which he presumed was all the confirmation that he needed to prove he was joining the ranks of the world population of altavistuffers.
Etymology: Altavista + Alzheimer's + stuff + suffers
Comments:
Kyoti - 2007-07-19: 10:25:00
Altavistuff
Kyoti - 2007-07-19: 10:26:00
Wow, look at that. I need a drink! ;))
Does alcohol have a salutary effect on boxlexia?