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'I sent in my resume, not a prison record.'

DEFINITION: To submit a resume, letter of intent, or proposal for an opportunity that's just perfect for you, and then to get absolutely no response. Nothing.

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Norrespondence

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: No-res-pawn-dense

Sentence: I was saddened to realize I was "too old" for the job. After 40 years in college training in lifeguarding, it turns out the only qualifications you need are youth and looks.

Etymology: Correspondence (mail) + no response (without an answer)

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Nullapply

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: null-app-lie

Sentence: Not only was Fred's proposal nullapplied, his pay cheques mysteriously stopped being processed.

Etymology: null (nothing,nil) + apply

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Applicoldshoulder

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈæpləˌkoʊldˌʃoʊldɚ/

Sentence: For some reason, when I submitted my resume to join the Rockettes, I just got the applicold-shoulder

Etymology: From application + cold-shoulder

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Applibilious

Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: ap-li-BIL-yuhs

Sentence: Philip became applibilious whenever he didn't receive a rejection letter. The only thing he hated worse than failure was the failure to fail properly.

Etymology: application + atrabilious

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COMMENTS:

The sentence did it for me,have my vote 8-) - grasshopper, 2007-06-27: 12:41:00

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Applicannot

Created by: micheles

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Flopositioned

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: flop-oh-si-shunned

Sentence: His resume was stellar, so why was he flopositioned every time he submitted it? What a poor businix decision on their part. Perhaps he should have just submitted a crapplication. Or maybe he should just stop applying to large abyssnesses altogether.

Etymology: flop, proposition

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Perfectascrew

Created by: kikiec83

Pronunciation: PUR-FECK-AH-SKRU

Sentence: While Egor believed a "Carrie" theme was incredibly appropriate for their senior prom, the student body exec board's immediate revocation of his invite was an apparent perfectascrew.

Etymology: Middle English parfit, from Anglo-French, from Latin perfectus, to carry out, from per- thoroughly to make, do; scrue, usually vulgar, fucked, rejected

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Voidmail

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: void-mail Can't make it any easier than that.

Sentence: Hannah compulsively applied for all of the vacant positions that appeared in the Little Piddlington Gazette, but had not yet received even an acknowledgement. She blamed it on voidmail, a strange virus that had migrated from email to snail mail. But the real problem was that Hannah's reputation was well known by all the employers in Little Piddlington. No one was prepared to take on her gloomy mien and manic depression tempered with occasional bouts of tourette's syndrome.

Etymology: voicemail + void

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Frasume

Created by: missmurder

Pronunciation: frai-su-may

Sentence: It sucks when you get a fresume.

Etymology: failed+resume

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Submissedout

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: sub-mist-owt

Sentence: i'd submissedout non-stop for the last month and then realised i'd forgot to put a contact number on my resume

Etymology: submission, missed out

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Comments:

jrogan - 2006-10-31: 15:10:00
Dear Queeny, The proposal was good. Too bad your husband missed it...

queeny - 2006-11-01: 09:11:00
whhhhhhat?

queeny - 2006-11-01: 09:11:00
I gave it a shot!!

Clayton - 2007-06-27: 01:23:00
Fealtility

purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 07:04:00
Hey James, my word isn't showing up.

petaj petaj - 2007-06-27: 07:24:00
Nor mine.

purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 08:01:00
Perhaps they've been kidnapped by a nounja.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-27: 08:25:00
The lost words have been rescued... ~ James

purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 08:42:00
Oh thank goodness. They were too young to be wandering about on their own. Something appears to be wrong with the Rankings page. I see some folks who verbotomized with only 4 points.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-27: 13:04:00
Hey Purple, I have updated the score so that it is correct now. I will be watching it to see the Double Verbotomy introduces any other bugs ~ James

purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 13:54:00
Thanks James!

Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:01:00
Hmm... my word's not there, either. No word means no votes. Not that I would've gotten any.

Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:02:00
Never mind that last comment. Very strange.

Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:02:00
Wait... it's missing again.

Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:12:00
Wait... it's missing again.