DEFINITION: v. To call a phone “help line” and spend 45 minutes pushing buttons and screaming at dumb voice-recognition system, before being automatically disconnected. n. A push-button or voice-activated phone menu system designed to irritate those who use it.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Limboloop: /lim-boe-loop/ Jason knew that as soon as the computer started acting funny he had to call the customer service hotline. This frustrated him to no end because he knew that he would have to enter in the model number, serial number, the product code and the color of the unit before he even got to the limboloop hell of regional call centers, problem troubleshooting, cream and sugar preference, and choice of wait time muzak, only to have to give the same information when transfered to a human voice with a Irish Catholic name and an Indian accent. Etymology: limbo, a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date + loop,Something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself. Created by: arrrteest.
Comments on Limboloop:
Mustang, 2008-04-15: 03:34:00
Great word. Matches the definition very nicely.
Oblivicurse: /uh-bliv-eh-kers/ Jonesy had a secret life. Under the happy facade or bubbliness and congeniality, she was really a curmudgeon and a misanthrope. She was a call center operator script engineer. She was responsible for the impossible recursive loop design that would often frustrate callers. With each possible combination, she would oblivicurse the respondant with a multitude of irrelavent, ambiguous and time consuming questions that would often lead the person back to the beginning. With this, she would sit down and smile darkly. Etymology: Oblivion + Curse Created by: pieceof314.
Comments on Oblivicurse:
Nosila, 2008-04-14: 19:43:00
Like that one, pieceof314…I just knew those IT types belonged to convens and every company has them!
Menuisance: /men-yoo’-sance/ Jamagra discovered she could menuance her way through many menuisances by simply pressing “0” as soon as the list of “pressing” alternatives began. Etymology: “menuisance” – menu + nuisance
“menuance” – menu + nuance Created by: Jamagra.
Digigeridoo: /dij-i-uh-ree-doo/ Whenever I phone Bell Canada, our national phone company for service, I always encounter the digigeridoo system, which encompasses pressing hundreds of buttons which only produces unintelligible irritating voice activated drone sounds and than a very clear “Thank you for calling Bell”. Etymology: digit + didgeridoo (a musical instrument of Australian Aborigines that creates a low drone sound) Created by: Stevenson0.
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Definition Comments:
Verbotomy – 2008-04-14: 00:01:00
Today’s definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Jamagra – 2008-04-14: 07:25:00
I miss silveryaspen.Mustang – 2008-04-15: 03:35:00
Where did silveryaspen go?Verbotomy – 2008-04-15: 16:59:00
Silveryaspen has retired from active duty. But I am sure she is still creating Verboticisms in her head and saying wonderful things about all the Verbotomy Writers! ~ James
Mustang – 2008-04-16: 06:26:00
She is missed. She did indeed say some very nice things about Verbotomizers.