Tag: Creativity

DEFINITION: n. A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity. v. To be excessively patient.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Waitforitude: /wait-for-it-tude/ Bo had the right waitforitude to be successful in the major leagues, but he couldn’t hit the fastball, so he became the oldest player in the minor leagues, staying there until he was finally let go. His waitforitude came in handy when he had to stand in the unemployment line. Etymology: “Wait for it,” said over and over by coaches to encourage batters to exercise patience at the plate was also a line from the Mel Brooks’movie “Robin Hood, Men in Tights.” + fortitude: strength of mind to allow endurance in spite of obstacles Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Waitforitude:

splendiction, 2009-10-05: 22:54:00
hey hey, good word!

Expectwaitions: /expeck – wayt – shuns/ Jimmy was ever so patient, he had high expectwaitions that if he stood there long enough, the right pitch would eventually be his. Etymology: expectations, wait Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Expectwaitions:

splendiction, 2009-10-05: 22:57:00
very well crafted.

Nosila, 2009-10-06: 01:17:00
good one

Foreverbearance: /for ever ber ans/ Doug Out was one of the most patient hitters in the entire Baseball League. His patience was actually a foreverbearance and often drove his team members crazy. He would wait forever for the perfect pitch, but often ended up striking out for his inaction. When asked where he got his patience to act this way, his answer was simple. “Why everyone knows, a diamond is forever…”! Etymology: Forever (for a limitless time) & Forbearance (good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence; a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting;exceptional patience & waiting ability) Created by: Nosila.

Opportimistic: /op ur ti MIS tik/ Alan was opportimistic that this time he would find just the right work-from-home scheme. He considered it “job-hunting” when he was surfing the Web for ways to earn cash in his free time. And he had a LOT of free time now, since losing his job due to excessive time spent surfing the Web. Etymology: opportunity + optimistic Created by: karenanne.

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DEFINITION: n. A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players. v. To get so caught up in a video game that you cannot stop.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Pwiioccupied: /pwēˈäkyəˌpī/ Wendell is pwiioccupied with gaming. He Eats, breathes and sleeps a video game life. He thinks his Wii Fit app has improved his wiiflexes, his wiiaction time. His friends think it has made him a social wiitard. Those friends are planning an intervention to get him into wiihab. It*s all wiidiculous. Etymology: preoccupied (dominate or engross the mind of someone to the exclusion of other thoughts) + Wii (home video game console released by Nintendo) Created by: artr.

Comments on Pwiioccupied:

galwaywegian, 2009-10-02: 10:06:00
poifect

Nosila, 2009-10-02: 11:01:00
wiitty woid, you wiiascally wabbit!

Wintendonitis: /win ten do nye tis/ Buster played his video games morning, noon and night to the consternation of his parents. He was so intent on winning each game, he was oblvious to the need to rest, eat and hydrate himself. He could barely move his hand or arm anymore, as he was developing wintendonitis. There was always a pong coming from his room, his nickname was Gameboy and he thought Mario and Luigi were his real brothers. His parents could not wait for September, when Buster would go to school and apply his energy elsewhere. It would be hard for him to hold a pencil or crayon, unless they could surgically remove his hand controls. Grade One was going to be a tough year for Buster! Etymology: Win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious) & Nintendo (Video game system made by the Japanese Nintendo Co.) & Tendonitis (inflammation of a tendon due to over-use, such as in thumb, elbow, shoulder,etc) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Wintendonitis:

galwaywegian, 2009-10-02: 10:12:00
ecin

Mariopia: /marr-ee-oo-pee-a/ Clyde suffered from Mariopia and it ruined his life. It started out with a simple Gameboy–black and white screen, bad graphics. Yet he was compelled to conquer it, and was willing to let his life fall into shambles around him. Today, Clyde is so destitute that he has taken to hanging around Best Buy looking for some kid who he can convince to “test drive” Mario Kart on the store’s demo Wiis. The scene usually ends with the kid crying, Clyde taunting and security escorting him off the premises. Etymology: Mario, the ubiquitous gaming brothers, combined with suffix “opia” which means affecting vision. Created by: Nuwanda.

Comments on Mariopia:

Nosila, 2009-10-02: 23:32:00
A Mario made in Heaven…good word

Videowiiality: /vid – eee – ooo – wee – al – et – ee/ No one could get Jonah’s attention for the past two days. He was clearly in videowiiality and we were all worried.
We thought he was becoming dehydrated and it looked like his game system had become his new hallucinogenic. Etymology: video, wii, reality Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Videowiiality:

artr, 2009-10-02: 12:22:00
Don’t tell me Jonah forgot his energy drink!

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DEFINITION: n. A condition where you get so distracted by the fact that you can’t find something, that you forget what you were looking for. v. To forget what you are looking for while you are looking for it.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Diversiamnesia: /dy ver jha am neez eeya/ My son, Whatshisname, cannot remember a thing. He suffers from diversiamnesia.
I don’t know where he gets it from, but he goes into a room and forgets why he went there. Ideas land on his brain but flitter away like little butterflies if he has any distraction at all. My nagging makes it worse according to him, but you cannot trust him to run a simple errand or remember important things. I think he’s hitting old age early and his condition is inherited from his father, Whateverhisnamewas. Where was I…??? Etymology: Diversion (a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); a distraction) & Amnesia (partial or total loss of memory) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Diversiamnesia:

splendiction, 2009-10-01: 19:15:00
“hitting old age early” – chuckle!

Absentfindedness: /AB sent find ed NESS/ Able tore around the apartment, digging through gobs of stuff to find many things he forgot he had. Unfortunately, his absentfindedness prevented him from actually remembering what he was looking for. Perhaps Able found it after all that finding! Etymology: I forgot… (Uh, a twist together of absentmindedness and find). Created by: splendiction.

Comments on Absentfindedness:

Nosila, 2009-10-01: 20:19:00
Good word…amazing how many people are afflicted with this disease…not me, at least I don’t remember having it!

Roomnesia: /roŏmnÄ“zhÉ™/ Tom has more nesias than you can shake a stick at. There*s roomnesia, where he is working and realizes he needs something to complete his task only to forget what he was going to find when he leaves the room. There is roamnesia, where he forgets what he was working on as soon as he starts to wander in search of something he now can’t remember. He also shows signs of homenesia, where he forgets where he is going as soon as he leaves the house and Romenesia where he can*t remember his vacation to Italy. Tom figures the final stage will be tombnesia when he can forget everything and get some long-lasting rest. Etymology: room (a part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling) + amnesia (a partial or total loss of memory) Created by: artr.

Comments on Roomnesia:

mrskellyscl, 2009-10-01: 06:40:00
I have worknesia, where I get so distracted thinking up a word for Verbotomy that I forget to get ready for work.

Alzhunter: /allz-hun-ter/ Carl was certain that he had early onset of Alzhunter’s Disease when he began to forget what it was that he was looking for in the first place; however, while he was hunting it, he found what he was looking for yesterday — except he couldn’t remember why he was looking for it. Etymology: Alzheimer’s Disease: dimentia often beginning with short-term memory loss + hunter: one who searches or seeks for something Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Alzhunter:

artr, 2009-10-01: 11:06:00
I often find things by looking for something else.

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DEFINITION: n. A state of heightened, subconscious awareness that allows drivers to “safely” navigate and control a vehicle without watching the road. v. To drive without bothering to watch where you are going.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Napigate: /nap-a-gate/ After years of working the graveyard shift, Joel was highly skilled at napigating between his home and workplace. So successful in fact, that after retiring, he would sometimes awake with a start to find himself trying to unlock his old office. Etymology: Navigate plus nap. Created by: Nuwanda.

Comments on Napigate:

artr, 2009-09-30: 14:43:00
I hate it when I go to work when I don’t have to.

Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:30:00
Love it…

Carvoyance: /car-voy-ance/ Clair used her extra sensory powers of carvoyance to get through the last 15 miles of car avoidance because she had been driving all night and was going into a nod. Etymology: car + clairvoyance: second-sight, ESP — to be able to see in a trance like state into the world beyond the perception of the normal senses Created by: mrskellyscl.

Nodopilot: /nod o pyle it/ It’s no wonder Dora’s long daily commute lended itself to her being able to drift into nodopilot mode. She left her home in Sleepy Hollow, drove past the Yawnkers turnoff, under the Boredwalk, past Lake Weary, close to Fort Fatigue, under the Spentsylvania overpass, through the town of Tuckerdout, past Conkorde-Jetlag Airport, over the Siesta Bridge and into the city of St. Pall where she worked as an accountant in the Restminster Abbey Nursing Home. Then eight long hours later, she would turn around and reverse her journey, while listening to Perry Como cd’s in her car. Etymology: Nod (to let the head fall forward through drowsiness;be almost asleep) & Autopilot (a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness;a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course)
Created by: Nosila.

Kipvana: /Kip Va Na/ Ned had become so enraptured in his 5:30 kipvana that he did not hear his name called on the radio and failed to claim the $100,000 prize. Etymology: Kip= Australian for nap.

Vana= A great rock band or the second part of Nir Created by: idavecook.

Comments on Kipvana:

Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:32:00
Kip Kip Hooray for your word!

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DEFINITION: v. To eat your favorite food, not because you are hungry, but because you are feeling sad or lonely. n. Food which is eaten to satisfy emotional cravings.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Cheereal: /chear – ee – ul/ Whenever Douglas felt sad or lonely, he poured a bowl of cheereal and he always felt better. He did not really know whether he actually liked the stuff but it gave him the warm fuzzies. Etymology: Cheer, Cereal Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Cheereal:

mrskellyscl, 2009-09-29: 08:44:00
I’ll never look at Cheerios the same way again. No wonder we give it to 2 year olds.

galwaywegian, 2009-09-29: 10:01:00
🙂

splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:05:00
Cheeryoh!

Fareapy: /fare-a-py/ Food endorphins have been recognized by many in the medical community as a legitimate form of fareapy. Sugar, salt and fat, either alone or in combination can help with stress relief. Those fareapy foods that have shown the greatest success treating the following conditions are: 1)RBSO (rejection by significant other) – Captain Crunch or another cereal with no nutritional value except sugar, 2)Employment Fatigue – chips or pretzels with french onion dip and/or nachos with cheese and salsa, 3)EBAS (empty bank account syndrome) – whatever your mother is cooking, 4)TTOTM (that time of the month) – any Ben and Jerrys ice cream and/or chocolate, 5)Road Rage – Twizzlers or another chewy form of candy, 6)POT Stress (parent of teenagers) just clean out the cupboard and eat whatever you find in the back. Fareapy should continue until the patient has finished calling all her or his friends, or slept for over 24 hours. Other treatment options may include 7)Cartoon Network Stimulus or 8)Musication (playing the same sappy song over and over and over) until the patient has has time to heal. Etymology: Fare: food + therapy: treatment of an illness or physchological condition Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Fareapy:

Nosila, 2009-09-29: 19:47:00
Life’s not fare…good word!

Relationchip: /reee lay shun tchippp/ women may come and women may go but you can rely on a good relationchip Etymology: relationship chip (as in french fry) Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Relationchip:

Nosila, 2009-09-29: 11:23:00
It’s the only way to ketchup with your love life!

splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:06:00
ha!

mweinmann, 2009-09-30: 08:13:00
I agree!

Moodtrients: /mood tree ents/ Tony consumes moodtrients when dealing with emotional issues. His favourite moodtrition was found in bowls and bowls of cereal. Each mood was reflected in the cereal choice: Lucky Charms when he lost at poker; Cheerios when he was dumping someone;Froot Loops when he felt a little crazy;Alpha-Bits when he felt like spelling;Chex when his bounced;Quaker Oats when he felt like sowing his and Trix when he felt the need to visit the local ladies of the evening. Etymology: Mood (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;the prevailing psychological state) & Nutrients (any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy & build tissue;of or providing nourishment; food)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Moodtrients:

splendiction, 2009-09-29: 23:06:00
Funny!

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