DEFINITION: n. A punishment which does not fit crime. v. To assign a punishment which is bizarrely inappropriate, and seems totally unrelated to the crime which has been committed.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Payadox: /pay a dox/ Today’s legal system is broken, for the punishments do not fit white-collar crimes. Madoff runs a Ponzi scheme and instead of being in jail, he is in his million dollar penthouse. Even more absurd, he is not made to pay any restitution, he gets to keep the billions he stole! Ditto, for the criminal mismanagement of bank assets by bank management. In their case, it gets even more perverse, for they are given bail-em-out -billions, and are free to do it again! There are politicians who do not pay their taxes. Instead of jail time, the president perversely appoints them to high political office with good pay and big benefits. The payadox of today is white-collar crime does pay, and pays big! Etymology: It is a paradox when the punishment doesn’t fit the white-collar crime … and when that white collar crime pays off big-time, it is a payadox! (In the fictionary {fiction-dictionary} a dox is the new human animal: a white-collar fox in sheep’s clothing seeking out hi$ prey.) Created by: silveryaspen.
Comments on Payadox:
Jabberwocky, 2009-03-06: 09:40:00
so true and so sadNosila, 2009-03-06: 19:04:00
Good story…just sorry it is fact not fiction!
Convictimization: /kon vik tim ize ashun/ It was pre-ordained. His name was Rob and by gosh, that is what he did for a living. He also wrote very bad checks. When he was caught and sentenced to 25 years in the pokey, he thought he had fallen prey to convictimization. He was incarcerated at Sing Sing, where contrary to the name, they did not sing, often or well. Warden Gordon Borden thought it would be ironic if Rob wrote the new Prison Newsletter, since he was so good at writing (bad checks). Rob called this literary marvel, “Sentences” and worked hard at it to make it informative and entertaining. He carried regular features, such as a column on advice to the lovelorn…”In-Mates” with such pertinent features as “Are you suffering from Penal Dysfunction?”;The Daily Horrorscope (“Your life has settled into predictable routine but just wait, the new screw in Cell Block 4 has his eye on you. Prepare for excitement.”); a singles column “Cell-ABC” and recipes from the prison kitchen, “The Garden of Pleadin'” …for Chili CON carney…take 500 pounds of ground meat, throw in 18 cups of saltpeter,…etc. He also added news items that affected his readership: “Care and feeding of your pet Cockroach”; and he used the digital camera to get candid snaps of daily life column, “I’ve been framed”. Rob became a publishing ty-con and made the most of his pun-nishment! Etymology: Convict (a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison; a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence; find or declare guilty) & Victimization (adversity resulting from being made a victim; an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Convictimization:
galwaywegian, 2009-03-06: 05:56:00
written with conviction!!silveryaspen, 2009-03-06: 19:15:00
Top Notch Job creating this ‘con’ job and ‘con’ verbotomy!kateinkorea, 2009-03-08: 10:30:00
So funny!!!
Punytivedamages: /pewnee-tiv-dam-aj-es/ Punytivedamages amounting to a cutback of .025% of the Bank President’s bonus for the year seemed unfair to the dispossessed living under the bridge who had been sold useless investments by his bank. Etymology: puny (feeble, undersized) + punitve damages Created by: Jabberwocky.
Comments on Punytivedamages:
Nosila, 2009-03-06: 18:44:00
It makes you lose interest in banks!silveryaspen, 2009-03-06: 19:11:00
Master of the one letter change to form a perfect verbotomy! Brilliant!
Sissyfine: /siss eeeeeeeee feye nnnnh/ He walked into judge Draco’s courtroom with the sinking feeling that a sissyfine decision was on its way. Etymology: fine,
Sisyphean challenge” “wikipedia”
As a punishment from the gods for his trickery, Sisyphus was compelled to roll a huge rock up a steep hill, but before he could reach the top of the hill, the rock would always roll back down again, forcing him to begin again.[2] The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus.
Created by: galwaywegian.
Comments on Sissyfine:
Jabberwocky, 2009-03-06: 09:38:00
oooh!! very cerebral todaysilveryaspen, 2009-03-06: 19:30:00
Wow! Sissyfine was just fine as a simple combine of sissy and fine and a great create. Then I read the etymology, enjoyed the Greek myth new to me. Not quite an eponym for you spelled it differently from the Greek, but that just made it better. Double meanings are not easily created. Absolutely Brilliant!kateinkorea, 2009-03-08: 10:20:00
Very clever!
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