DEFINITION: n., The wondrous, and the “wonder how I’m going to pay for it” feelings of the holiday shopping season. v., To stumble through a shopping mall like a zombie on a buying binge, grabbing anything and everything that will fit on your credit card.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Letusowe: /let us o/ Oh, the Crowds in the Mall are frightful,but the sales are so delightful. And since we have one week to go, letusowe, letusowe, letusowe.
It doesn’t show signs of stopping,
And I’ve bought my cards for shopping,
My limits are now way down low,
letusowe, letusowe, letusowe!
When we finally kiss goodnight,
How I’ll have hated going out in the store!
When I get my bill I’ll turn white,
And hope that I don’t lose the farm.
The shoppers are slowly dying,
And, for credit we’re still applying,
But as long as you love me so,
letusowe, letusowe, letusowe! Etymology: Play on “Let it Snow”…Christmas Song (apologies to Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne)…owe (to be in debt) Created by: Nosila.
Obligiftion: /ob lih GIF shun/ I love that feeling of obligiftion that holidays and birthdays engender. (Not.) There’s nothing like spending money on someone you don’t really like so that he/she doesn’t talk negatively about you to other friends or relatives. It is a joy that is only exceeded by the thoughtful, useful, and attractive (not) gift that said person in turn gives you through his/her own sense of duty and obligiftion, and then expects to see displayed in your house when he/she visits. Etymology: obligation + gift Created by: karenanne.
Comments on Obligiftion:
Nosila, 2009-12-19: 01:53:00
obligreatword!
Fooltide: /fool-tide/ At 5:00 pm on October 31st the “fooltide carols” begin to work their voodoo on their unsuspecting targets. Accompanied by the glow and sparkle of lights and tinsel, and the lure of huge sales, the happy little tunes plant themselves in the brains of shoppers who wander trancelike through the aisles, knowing full well that they’re destroying their credit rating, but unable to resist the hypnosis of the television commercials that even make buying a Lexus with a big red bow seem reasonable. At 12:00 noon on December 25 the music stops and everyone goes back to their lives as if nothing happened. Etymology: wordplay on Yuletide — fool: one who lacks good judgement; one acts unwisely on a given occasion + tide: time or season – most often used in combination such as yuletide or Christmastide Created by: mrskellyscl.
Ghoulcarding: /gool-card-ing/ On Christmas Eve the the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill for it.
Etymology: ghoul (a possessed evil spirit, or demon) + gold card
Created by: Stevenson0.
Comments on Ghoulcarding:
Nosila, 2009-12-19: 01:54:00
ghoulopogos word
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