One Year of Verbotomy…

Well it was a year ago today that I registered verbotomy.com. I was attending the Cross Platform Mentorship Lab at the Banff New Media Centre in Banff, Alberta, Canada. It was a special program designed to help artists design, develop and produce multimedia art projects. I was getting a lot of positive feedback on the project, but Ravi Shukla the legal advisor, told me I had to come up with new name for my project. I immediately put on my thinking cap and came up with the name “Verbotomy”. It was available as a domain name, and when I searched the word “Verbotomy”, Google produced one, and only one result! It was a reference in the Oxford Dictionary to book published in England in the seventeenth century on the Taxonomy of Language. Perfect! Today Verbotomy produces over 100,000 Google results…

Anyways I haven’t finished today’s comic, so I have to get back to work. If you’d like to leave a comment or ask me question, just post it here.

Be creative!

James

P.S. Just posted the definition and comic so I thought I’d add it to this post.

DEFINITION: v. intr. To silently signal the position of a piece of food on a person’s face using hand gestures, facial expressions and tonguing motions. n. A nonverbal communication system used to alert and assist diners with food on their faces.

Why do you keep making those stupid faces?

To see the definition and today’s verboticisms go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=cake

117 thoughts on “One Year of Verbotomy…”

  8. happy birthday!… thanks for the daily dose of brain strain [cortexercise?] i look forward to the anniversary cartoon.

  10. Having been with you at that decisive Verbotomy moment a year ago , James, I must say how thrilling it has been to watch your progress. A great success.

    Congratulations! and here’s to many more 100,000’s

    Keep pedalling.

  14. Verbotomy has provided a much needed bit of relief from the tedium of my otherwise mostly uninteresting existence. I applaud you, James, for your excellent online word game!

  15. hey happy B-day! Keep up the great work….Or keep having Fun …or well you know..GOOD JOB!

  16. James — Congratulations! Your 1 yr-old baby is very precocious. Verbotomy’s been talking since day one — and its got a ginormous vocabulary thanks to all the friends who have been feeding it daily since last November. I’ll drop by again later for some cake and to look at your photo albums!

  18. CONGRATS! let’s celebrate the the first anniversary.
    the lost of honeyis honeylast for ever last long , the honey is is money. share and care the joy witha ll the members fo verbotomy. go ahead>>::::;;;**88

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  19. Hey Franke — Yes, Verbotomy has been talking since day one, and uses a lot of big words, but no one know what language he’s speaking… Thank you for being a such a creative inspiration!

  20. James – Happy Birthday!! I look forward to the daily brain exercises and interacting with such a creative force (the verbotomists). I find that I have incorporated many new words into my vocabulary. I love to laugh and I always enjoy reading the incredible variety of sentences your site provides all day.

    Hey Clayton – where have you been? and if you’re back get in on the word today – we look forward to the banter.

  23. ARRRGH!!! Verbitch. Hope ya get the purple icing all over that tacky shirt you’re wearing. (i don’t think that i can take it, cuz it took so long to bake it…)

  30. Uh-oh. The orange slime must be migrating for the winter. Thanks for cluing me in, James.
    (did anyone remember to bring the trick candle?)

  32. Congrats James!
    just wanted to say I love ur site!
    …Once my boss is off to his 1st meeting,
    I turn to you Verbotomy! 🙂

  33. well done James,
    It’s been a most enjoyable year. It makes coming to work almost worth it! If I have the time i try to get a definition in each day. If i’m too busy, I’ll still have a look and check out the works of the great word god(ess) purpleartichokes and her disciples, and check out the newer kids on the block. Long may you run!!

  38. hey…happy birthday..is my husband’s birthday today also…Scorpio-mania!

    Thanks for using my definition today – I am honoured as usual!

  39. hey remistram – it’s one of our kids birthdays today as well – great day for a birthday

    thanks for coming up with so many wonderful ideas for us to ponder – keep them coming

  40. Congratulations on one year of great definitions and fantastic art. It is INCREDIBLE over the last year how many of these definitions have surfaced in my everyday circumstances and I had a word for the situation to the disbelief of my students, or colleagues. Our language certainly uses an excess number of words to sum up social situations we find ourselves in every day. Verbotomy forces us to capsulize this to a single word. When I checked this morning it is hard to believe that I’ve created 245 words. It is a challenging, interesting, creative and fun part of my day and for that I thank you very much. Good Luck and James, I’m sending you a foodianslip from across the room to warn you, that you got a gob of icing on your upper lip.

  43. Thanks remistram! I appreciate all your definitions. They have certainly provided lot’s of inspiration for all our Verbotomists. Happy Birthday to your hubby!

  44. Hey Stevenson0, You are certainly an inspiration to all, especially with your razor sharp wit. Thank you!

    Re: FoodianSlip. Which side of my mouth is it on?

  45. Thanks Jabberwocky!
    Makes for a very busy time of the year for me!
    Over slept an hour today as well…

    Congrats James, Verbotomy represents something fun and creative that I truly look forward to each week day….keep it going!

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