Wow! My brainwaves are melting cheese!

DEFINITION: To pace, stare or drool in front of your stove or microwave, in an effort to use sheer willpower to make your food cook faster.

Wow! My brainwaves are melting cheese!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Cerebroil: /sare-ee-broil/ Jim prefers his steak done Pompeii style, whereas I like it rare. I always used to have problems getting the timing right but now I just cerebroil his so they are both done at the same time. Etymology: cerebral (of the brain) + broil (to cook by direct heat Created by: pinwheel.

Mindcrowave: /mynd-crow-wayv/ when she walked into the kitchen she found Allan standing in front of the oven, desperately trying to mindcrowave the osso buco in time for dinner Etymology: mind, microwave Created by: rikboyee.

Dishfullthinking: /dish-ful-think-ing/ With only minutes left before his guests arrived he resorted to dishfullthinking to cook the frozen lasagne in time for dinner Etymology: wishfull thinking + dish (as in dish up food/cook)+ dishfull as in full dish Created by: Jabberwocky.

Telekitchenesis: /telly-KITCH-en-e-sis/ Uri, if you really must use your telekitchenesis skills at least put them to good use. Save us some electricity instead of just bending spoons and forks. Etymology: telekinesis + kitchen Created by: petaj.

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James

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Do you really get paid to insult people?

DEFINITION: A person who insults people for a living.

Do you really get paid to insult people?

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Indignatary: /in-dig-nuh-tair-ee/ Sue is a professional indignatary, seizing every opportunity to publically insult people. Etymology: indignant, dignitary Created by: purpleartichokes.

Insultant: /in-sult-ant/ “I have spent many years honing my insulting skills, so your suggestion that I’m ripping you off is, well, it’s an insult, an apersion, an impertinence.” And so ended another negotiation over the extortionate insultant fee. “And you smell like bag of rotten mussels”, she yelled as she left the building. “Quite clearly she is excellent at her job, let’s get her back next time.” Etymology: consultant + insult Created by: petaj.

Scornstar: /scorn-star/ Because he was a popular scornstar, he attracted masochists Etymology: porn star + scorn Created by: porsche.

Belligerist: /-bəˈlɪdʒəˌɹɪst-/ “You vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!” shouted the belligerist at the unexpecting man who had just purchased an argument and accidentally wandered into the wrong room. Etymology: From belligerent + -ist Created by: ErWenn.

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James

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Verbotoweek: Trying to Verbotomize Vonnegut

Rikboyee Wins!

Congratulations to rikboyee for winning this week’s Verbotomy, played in tribute to Kurt Vonnegut. It is also fittingly coincidyll that Stevenson0, (Sony Stevenson was a character in ‘The Sirens of Titan’ and also featured in some Vonnegut TV spinoffs) should do so well. and Jabberwocky true to it’s nonsensical namesake set a fast pace early in the week with a wicked placeebull.

Without the benefib of a lullalie, this week’s words were a taopestry of meshergy and kismesh. While the fishtorians in the group may have a different pointofviewtopia and perhaps be jealeash of the erosponge reference, for the slaveheart, it was the paradaxiom antidoter for the anecdontalist/anecdadalist in all of us. As the tangentvangelist once said to his domimator, “It’s just a diggdang of chickenpoup”. So let us all be cheerfullofit and toast the master who holds the key to finding the chronosynclastic infundibulum (Kurt Vonnegut) and keep those caterpillaries charged for the next Verbotomy challenge. As Sony Stevenson once said, “Sometimes the obvious is obviously obvious.”

Top five verboticisms of the week:

  1. placeebull Created by: Jabberwocky
  2. loveshackler Created by: rikboyee
  3. benefib Created by: Stevenson0
  4. tangentvangelist Created by: porsche
  5. lullalie Created by: suzanne

Which inspired some dangerously creative conversations…

Playdohheart verbacious creativity had a host Verbotomy Writers keyboarding a full tilt with this sentence for anecdadalist

“When I was younger I only had one pair of pants. They were purple plaid flares and all the other kids made fun of me. And when you bring up the subject of pants, I think of that and then I get all worried that I’m still just the kid with the proverbial purple plaid flares and you’re such an angel of miraculous beauty. I’m going to go lay down now because I’m upset. I don’t think I can go out to dinner tonight until I feel validated as a man again… you know… sexually.” She sighed, realizing she should have known better than to ask Jim, the master anecdadalist, if she looked fat in these pants.

Comments:

purpleartichokes2007-04-18: 06:00:00
Fantastic sentence! Can’t wait til the book comes out!

Jabberwocky2007-04-18: 08:54:00
you get my vote for a great story

Bulletchewer2007-04-18: 13:03:00
Just realised that your name could’ve worked for yesterday’s definition. I’ve seen murderers with shorter sentences, mind.

Jabberwocky2007-04-18: 13:17:00
Be careful with your acid-ic comments Bulletchewer. Keep in mind Playdoheart’s heart is made of playdoh

playdohheart2007-04-18: 14:52:00
Ha, you’re right about the name relating to yesterday! But I think a playdohheart would be the one having his or her life molded by someone like a domimator. I did get a bit carried away by the novel-ty of my sentence(/paragraph), but it appears I’ll do anything to make the punchline work… the best jokes are dangerous.

And Alchemist’s Noodality inspired a few well-chosen words…

petaj2007-04-20: 07:55:00
If Jeff was also a good naturist too, then your etymology could include ‘nude’!

Alchemist2007-04-20: 08:51:00
done!

wordmeister2007-04-20: 10:27:00
Wow, creative collaboration! Dan Pink would be proud of your group kayveeisms.

And finally, a few clever words that deserve a second look…

Your almost humble observer,

Weeklink

OMIGOD! Prada is on sale at Wal-Mart!

DEFINITION: A place, or a moment, where all the different kinds of truths fit together, and where there are many different ways to be absolutely right about everything.

OMIGOD! Prada is on sale at Wal-Mart!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Kismesh: /kiss-mesh/ I knew it was kismesh when the toast fell on the floor butter side up. Etymology: kismet (destiny) + mesh (coming together) Created by: pinwheel.

Chronosynclastic infundibulum: /chro-no-sin-kla-stik in-fun-di-bu-lum/ You might think it would be nice to go to a chronosynclastic infundibulum and see all the different ways to be absolutely right, but it is a very dangerous thing to do. Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for The Sirens of Titan, published in 1959. Created by: vonnegut.

Pointofviewtopia: /poiynt-ov-vyew-toe-pee-ah/ for the first time ever, our family get together had not disentegrated into a slanging match, and everyone left feeling amiable….it was as if we had been in some sort of pointofviewtopia Etymology: point of view, utopia Created by: rikboyee.

Coincidyll: /co-ince-i-dill/ The coinicidyll immediately preceded the big bang. Etymology: coincide + idyll + ideal Created by: petaj.

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James

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Your hair is attached directly to your brain!

DEFINITION: The tendrils of one’s life; the intertwining connections with people, ideas, or things that support an individual’s personal growth.

Your hair is attached directly to your brain!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Taopestry: /tao-pess-tree/ on his deathbed he looked back on his rich taopestry and was pleased with what he saw Etymology: tao [the way or the path] tapestry Created by: rikboyee.

Meshence: /mesh-ence/ John was expelled from school simply because his meshence comprised of friends that his parents described as ‘bad influences’. Etymology: Mesh (an interwoven structure) + essence (one’s basic character) Created by: pinwheel.

Umbilicalcard: /um-bil-i-cal-card/ All the important deatils of her relationships were stored on her umbilicalcard which she played sometimes to her advantage Etymology: umbilical cord + card (agenda) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Characturds: /kar-ak-turds/ A sixth-grade science teacher who made me eat chocolate covered ants, a mother with an obsession for gardening, and a nasty fall on the head as a child; these are some of the knitwits, purpleartifolks, and characturds that moulded me into the fine verbotomiss I am today. Etymology: character, turds (I seem to get the cream of the crap when it comes to influences) Created by: purpleartichokes.

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James

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