Tag: Verbotomy

DEFINITION: n. The uneasy comfort that comes from knowing that your family, your friends, the police, the taxman, and every marketer in the world, are using the newest technology track your every move. v. To lose your privacy due to technology.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Techsposed: /tek-spozed/ Sam made a good living counting cards. All the Pit Bosses in Vegas knew him well so he had to disguise his face. Dressed as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew with hat, beard, sidelocks, and glasses, he managed to avoid detection from the biometric face-scanning surveillace cameras. What Sam didn’t count on was the new addition to the table; the high denomination chip fingerprint scanner. Soon he was techsposed and the casino goons were making a beeline for his table. Etymology: 1.tech – abbreviation for technology.
2.exposed – revealed or laid open to view. Created by: GlobalGallery.

Comments on Techsposed:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
good one!

silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:43:00
Super Snooper Duper sentence and word!

Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:14:00
All bets are now off…

Tracknowledgy: /trak-nol-ed-gee/ The lastest tracknowledgy elicits extreme anxiety as well as solace when you realize that Big Brother is riding piggyback wherever you go. Etymology: track + knowledge + edgy + technology Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Tracknowledgy:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:17:00
Your creative puns always amaze me … but this one is especially excellent!

Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:10:00
Touche, jw…Big Brother has tons of siblings!

TJayzz, 2009-02-28: 13:19:00
Excellent

Scrutinanny: /skroōtnanÄ“/ The Wilsons originally installed their CCTV system as a security measure. They soon found that it was a way to keep tabs on their sometimes-too-active daughter. The system became a virtual scrutinanny. For some strange reason, their darling offspring couldn’t wait to get out of the house each morning. Mom couldn’t understand why she started referring to herself as an inmate. Etymology: scrutiny (critical observation or examination) + Nanny (a person, typically a woman, employed to care for a child in its own home) Created by: artr.

Comments on Scrutinanny:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
No chance her becoming a screwtinanny then? love it!

readerwriter, 2009-02-27: 11:04:00
Maybe it’s time for the Super Scrutinanny?

silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:12:00
Ah … even parents … are becoming Big Brothers … and your create is a perfect verbotomy for them!

Orwellwellwellian: /awr well well well eeeeean/ The GPS phone provided an orwellwellwellian moment or two as he cruised the seedier side of town in search of his soon-to-be-ex-fiance Etymology: orwellian, well well well! Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Orwellwellwellian:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:02:00
So deeply deeply deeply and disturbingly terrorific create!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-27: 14:23:00
love it

GlobalGallery, 2009-02-27: 22:08:00
Brilliant! LOL. Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1984.

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DEFINITION: v. To take a really long, relaxing, shower; so long in fact, that you loose concept of time. n. A prolonged shower that uses up a whole tank of hot water and leaves the bather looking like a boiled raisin.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Wetternity: /wet tern atee/ Everyone in the household had to get up earlier now. This was so they could get to use the house’s only bathroom before Kara, the teenager, got into it. When she was in there, it seemed like a wetternity to any poor soul waiting their turn. Her mother always wondered that before she turned 13, Kara simply splashed water on her face and ran out the door and had to be reminded to shower or bathe, at least every other day. Since the fateful day she turned into a hormone-on-wheels, she took endless showers in the morning and after school and a long bath at night. The irony was that although she alone was responsible for the surge in water consumption in her home, she belonged to the school’s Water Conservation Club. Wait until she has to pay the utility bills, often grumbled her father. This was the same girl who was staunchly anti-litter in public, but who’s bedroom carpet had not been seen in years for ankle-high debris. Teenagers, go figure! Etymology: Wetter (more soaked in liquids, especially water, than something else) & Eternity (for all time, forever and a day; time without end; a seemingly endless period of time) Created by: Nosila.

Spaboiled: /Spar-boy-eld/ Having been gardening all day, Joe decided to take a long hot shower. As the hot water splashed around him he felt like he was being wrapped in a blanket. It felt so good he lost all track of time and ended up spaboiled, emerging looking like an over cooked lobster. Etymology: Spa(a hot water tub) + boiled(to have been immersed in hot water until cooked) = Spaboiled See Parboiled(boil until nearly cooked) Created by: TJayzz.

Comments on Spaboiled:

yellowbird, 2009-02-26: 06:36:00
very nice

Mustang, 2009-02-26: 07:50:00
He was no doubt thinking of his long lost girlfriend Sammin Ella…he lobster and never flounder…

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-26: 10:28:00
terrific and love the puns Mustang

Eauvertime: /overtime/ Even though Bob worked at the public swimming pool, there was nothing he liked more than eauvertime to unwind. Etymology: eau (fr – water) + overtime (additional hours) Created by: petaj.

Comments on Eauvertime:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-26: 06:41:00
eau dear

TJayzz, 2009-02-26: 06:44:00
Good one!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-26: 10:26:00
excellent

Shour: /like “shower”/ Raoul spent many shours steaming and relaxing in the hot sudsy water of his shower. One day, after a particularly long shour, his skin appeared a fiery red, wrinkled, moist sun-dried tomato! After that day, he swore off the shour for a bathour. Etymology: shour is a homophone for shower. “Shour” has the word “hour” in it to emphasize its long duration. Created by: splendiction.

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DEFINITION: v. To deny one’s accomplishments, or minimize one’s abilities in order to obtain a job. n. A resume, or list of qualifications, which has been disembellished and disemboweled to meet extremely low job requirements.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Gentrylevel: /jentrÄ“levÉ™l/ When Prince Gustuv found that the family fortune was not what it once was, it became clear that he would have to find a way to make some money. There are few jobs earmarked for the nobility so it looked he would have to downplay his rank and take a (gasp!) gentrylevel position. The interviewer tried hard to not burst out laughing when he saw “formerly know as Prince” on the resume. Etymology: gentry (the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth) + level (a height or distance from the ground or another stated or understood base) play on entry-level Created by: artr.

Comments on Gentrylevel:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-25: 14:40:00
superb

kateinkorea, 2009-02-26: 20:11:00
Very good, and it made me laugh!

Disconjobulation: /dis-con-job-yu-LAY-shun/ With no possible chance to find another job in his highly specialized field, Horace found it necessary to apply for jobs he once considered beneath himself and found a little disconjobulation was necessary in order to ‘qualify’ for such menial positions. Etymology: A play on the word discombobulation, or discombobulate (To throw into a state of confusion) Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Disconjobulation:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-25: 02:15:00
I love the ‘con-job’ in the middle!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-25: 14:39:00
great

kateinkorea, 2009-02-27: 07:50:00
Love it!

Denyigreat: /dee-ny-I-grate/ In these tough economic times the only way I could get a job at the local McDonalds was to denyigreat, which was difficult because I am. Etymology: deny + I + great + denigrate (disparage) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Mcjobimize: /Mc-Job-i-mize/ To be even considered for the position at Dollarama, Joe had to McJobimize his resume leaving everything out that he did since high school. Etymology: McJobimize – verb – from McJob (a none descript low paying job such as a burger server, or store greeter) + minimize (to represent at the lowest possible amount) Created by: Stevenson0.

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DEFINITION: v. To offer pre-approved credit, loans or sweepstake prizes in order to lock the some poor sucker into permanent usury. n. Junk mail, spam or telemarketing offers for pre-approved credit and loans.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Credebt: /kred + det/ Lonnie just got a new credebt card. It gives him so much credit at such a high rate that he will never get out of debt. Etymology: Credit and Debt – Credit (money made available to borrow) and Debt (the state of owing something) Created by: rombus.

Comments on Credebt:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-24: 14:34:00
Meaning readily apparent, easy to say, a perfect pun, and sticks in the memory. Absolutely Brilliant!

Nosila, 2009-02-24: 21:59:00
That’s probably how they spelled it originally…good word

Flimflamscamjam: /flimflamskamjam/ Trudy found herself paying for one credit card with the next one. She couldn’t wait for the mail to deliver the next pre-approved offer. She was in a complete flimflanscamjam. Her financial plan can be compared to fire walking. If she hesitates at all she is gonna get burned. Etymology: flimflam (a confidence game) + scam (a dishonest scheme; a fraud) + jam (an awkward situation or predicament) Created by: artr.

Comments on Flimflamscamjam:

wayoffcenter, 2009-02-24: 07:19:00
This is one of those “Can’t say it 10 times fast” words.

Mustang, 2009-02-24: 19:02:00
New idea for a sammich: Peanut butter and flimflam jam. Good word!

Gullibullmarketing: /gull-a-bull-mark-a-ting/ Connie’s name was apt. She was adept at gullibullmarketing, and made a fortune luring young people into crippling ‘debtitude’ by scamming them with promises of a rosy credit based future Etymology: gull (to fool someone) + bull market (optimistic market) + marketing (promoting products or services) + gullible (disposed to believing anything or being suckered) Created by: petaj.

Comments on Gullibullmarketing:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-24: 15:10:00
Bullseye!

Nosila, 2009-02-24: 21:57:00
Suitabull word!

Mortalgage: /mort-al-age/ The sales pitch and the rates were good we decided to lock into a 60 year mortalgage. Etymology: MORTALGAGE – from MORTAL + MORTGAGE or MORTAL + ENGAGE Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Mortalgage:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-24: 08:59:00
very clever

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DEFINITION: v. A software update or patch which uses up a ton of memory and hard drive space, stalling the computer with a crippling case of performance anxiety. n. To stall out a computer by installing a software “upgrade”.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Freezedrived: /freez – drivd/ My booting has become freezedrived ever since I applied the latest microstall patch. I now have a slowseepeeyou, a lockedclock and my ram butts badly. Etymology: Freeze + Drive(as in Hard Drive) also play on “freeze dried” >> Freeze (Stop moving or become immobilized) Drive (computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it) Freeze Dried (The substance is frozen and then dried in a vacuum) Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Freezedrived:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-23: 10:51:00
Each verbotomy made me laugh more! Super Duper!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-23: 15:48:00
terrific

TJayzz, 2009-02-23: 17:25:00
Stupendous!

Nosila, 2009-02-23: 21:45:00
PCU around…good word!

kateinkorea, 2009-02-24: 07:58:00
Really good word.

Grimstallation: /Grim-staw-lay-shun/ Since having his computer installed with the latest upgrade, Tom couldn’t believe how slow it was. He came to the conclusion that it had suffered a grimstallation and immediately called the ‘experts’ back in to sort out the problem. Etymology: Grim(unfavourable, not good) + Installation(a set up of a program added to a computer) = Grimstallation Created by: TJayzz.

Comments on Grimstallation:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-23: 10:48:00
Great Create!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-23: 15:50:00
hopefully he didn’t call the brothers grimstallation company – they aren’t noted for their sense of humour

Mustang, 2009-02-23: 18:07:00
Tom no doubt grimbled about that mess.

splendiction, 2009-02-23: 21:27:00
Great word!

Webstuck: /web stuk/ It takes so long for some embedded files, they should call them inbedded files, for they take all night! ET hated spyware, and wished they made spryware, a program for nimble and quick downloads. ET didn’t call it a web stack, he called it a webstuck! While waiting for his software on demand to download, ET not only had time to phone home, but every one on his home planet! Etymology: WEBSTUCK is a play on WEB STACK, Web stack is the term used to refer to software stacks in Web development environments. The stack of software, mainly comprised of open source software, will contain an operating system, Web server, database server, and programming language. One of the most most well-known web stacks is LAMP.
Let us hope it will enlighten our way! Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Webstuck:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-23: 15:52:00
very apt

TJayzz, 2009-02-23: 17:26:00
Like it

Nosila, 2009-02-23: 21:48:00
Beeee good!

Affordapatchee: /aff ord a pat chee/ He had his reservations. After all, this new upgrade, while inexpensive (actually free) could cost him his whole computer system. It would affect his computer Manitouls, he’d be shaman his ancestors. It was definitely accessible and affordapatchee, but it tended to slow down his hard drive, took lots of memory and stalled out his access to the Home Shopping Network and his daily dose of Verbomtomy! No good could come from that…it would be Totem bedlam. Using his Inuituition and wearing his Bow Tie and his Arrow shirt,he decided that he would buy the patch anyway…if his system crashed, he could always Sioux the manufacturers! Etymology: Fort Apache (John Ford movie, starring John Wayne as a commander at Fort Apache, who has sympathy for Cochese and his Native followers. He is replaced (upgraded as it were) by Henry Fonda, who is not so liberal and whose arrogance causes the Natives to uprise and give the Fort trouble…relationships have to be repaired) & Afford ( be the cause or source of;be able to spare or give up) & Patch (a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program;a connection intended to be used for a limited time) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Affordapatchee:

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:53:00
Inuituition ….you crack me up, Hon!

galwaywegian, 2009-02-23: 07:00:00
love it!

silveryaspen, 2009-02-23: 10:45:00
superb injunuity!

Mustang, 2009-02-23: 18:05:00
injunious….

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