DEFINITION: n., A fear that occurs immediately after you have lodged a complaint, and is focused on the possibility that your service representative (i.e. waiter, bank manager, dental hygienist, etc.) is planning sabotage (i.e. secretly spitting in your food, secretly ruining your credit rating, or secretly removing your tonsils, etc.).
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Regretribution: /ree gret trib you shun/ Rhett was already feeling regretribution for complaining to his Bank Manager, Chet, about the way he had been treated by the bank employees while doing a little banking. He did not realize that such a complaint might reflect badly on Chet’s perfect career record and maybe hinder or halt any career aspirations he had to be Bank President. You could Abetribution that there would be Rhettribution from Chetribution which would cause Sweatribution, Upsetribution and Threatribution and Rhett could Getribution a big Debtribution. Yes, next time Rhett tried to rob a bank, he’d pick one with nicer tellers! Etymology: Regret (sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment;feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about) & Retribution(the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Regretribution:
metrohumanx, 2008-10-28: 02:25:00
Good grief! That sentence makes my head swim!…..but i like it.Nosila, 2008-10-28: 12:52:00
That’s called dizzytribution, but don’t fretribution, if you were on a plane, it might be jetribution or on a boat it would be wetribution!metrohumanx, 2008-10-28: 17:55:00
If the warden lets me use the computer, I’ll make another contribution.
Gripesniperr: /gripe-SNIPE-air…..(can be pronounced with a mock French accent)/ Petula stopped at the local Serbo-Croatian restaurant on the way home from her assertiveness training seminar. The tripe was not up to snuff, and when the waiter brought her a flaccid eclair, she sent it back to the chef after browbeating the waiter who delivered it. As the minutes crawled ominously by, Petula was seized by a sudden GRIPESNIPERR….perhaps she was being too hard on the “Beav”- he was only waiting tables to pay off that AK-47 he brought from his homeland. An exorbitant tip might compensate for her hasty harangue, but by then it could be too late….Milosh might be a real GRIPESNIPER….err…..”Czech, Please.” Etymology: GRIPE+SNIPE+ERR=GRIPESNIPERR………..GRIPE:to complain with grumbling;Middle English, from Old English grÄ«pan; akin to Old High German grÄ«fan to grasp, Lithuanian griebti…..SNIPE:shoot at exposed individuals from a usually concealed point of vantage…..ERR:to make a mistake,to violate an accepted standard of conduct, especially in an eatery of suspiciously vague ethnic origin; Middle English, from Anglo-French errer, from Latin errare to wander, err; akin to Old English ierre wandering, perverse, Gothic airzeis deceived. Created by: metrohumanx.
Comments on Gripesniperr:
metrohumanx, 2008-10-28: 01:47:00
Can’t identify that snack? Lookee here:
http://www.hanttula.com/exhibits/mofa/metrohumanx, 2008-10-28: 02:11:00
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy SmothersJabberwocky, 2008-10-28: 12:59:00
merde! she got away just in timeNosila, 2008-10-28: 13:59:00
Yes, Petula was just being Prague-matic!
Hostillaserve: /HOSTILLASERVE/ I KNEW I WAS A VICTIM OF HOSTIALSERVE WHEN I SAW THE LOOGIE GENTLY RESTING IN MY TOMATOE SOUP. Etymology: Created by: day4ghee.
Comments on Hostillaserve:
metrohumanx, 2008-10-28: 17:48:00
Grossly realistic. Nice word.
Remorselangst: /re-MORSE-uhl-angst/ Seeing what she thought was vengeful aggravation in the eyes of the waiter when she complained about her dinner, Matilda experienced a huge wave of remorselangst and found herself wishing she’d just eaten the overdone steak rather than to complain about it. Etymology: Blend of remorse, morsel, and angst
Created by: Mustang.
Comments on Remorselangst:
metrohumanx, 2008-10-28: 02:28:00
Downright inspirational!Jabberwocky, 2008-10-28: 13:01:00
like it!
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