Tag: Creativity

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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James

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DEFINITION: v. To win approval by carefully omitting any and all facts which may put the “correct” decision in jeopardy. n. A form of persuasion, or perhaps deceit, which is based on selective omissions.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Deleteful: /de LETE full/ The guy I am now dating is delightful, but the last guy was deleteful. He always “forgot” to tell me things. He didn’t tell me he was dating other women. He said, “You didn’t ask.” He told me what he thought I should know in a nicely packaged facade, and deleted the rest. Etymology: The opposite of delightful.
DELETE: to remove something, or erase something
DECEITFUL: dishonest Created by: kateinkorea.

Comments on Deleteful:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 08:29:00
Well crafted!

Factholes: /fakthōlz/ If you could see Tim’s argument it would look like a slice of Swiss cheese. He is skilled in the use of flash and bluster to camouflage his factholes. When people find how they have been duped, they will sometimes refer to Tim as a certain variety of hole. Etymology: fact (a thing that is indisputably the case) + holes (hollow places in a solid body or surface) Created by: artr.

Comments on Factholes:

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 01:14:00
Into the void!

Skimportune: /skimp-or-tune/ Sally became the not so proud owner of a plastic water bottle facility after the salesman skimportuned her to buy it for the sake of hygiene. He neglected to tell her that water bottles were now banned in her country. Etymology: skimp (scanty) + importune (solicit pressingly) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Skimportune:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 08:36:00
exsellent!

TJayzz, 2009-02-20: 12:09:00
Good one!

Shambassador: /sham bass a door/ Shambassador to the Divided Nations, Vdy Darkneibour sent his envoy to the centre of the Black Sea to campaign for detonation of nuckelhead weapons from any of the nations’ nucklehead submarines. Etymology: shambassador is from sham (deliberately deceive or fake) and ambassador (a “spokesperson” or promoter). Created by: splendiction.

Comments on Shambassador:

Nosila, 2009-02-20: 22:59:00
shambitious word!

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 01:09:00
Love this word. Great Historical-geographical refs!

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Be Creative,

James

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the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: n. The stars, lights and birds that circle your head when you hit it REALLY hard. v. To watch the stars that circle your head after impact.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Traumastrology: /trouməəsträlÉ™jÄ“/ Sidney (aka Lumpy) is working on a new field of study, traumastrology. It is the study of how a person is effected by the alignment of the stars that occur just after a blow to the head. He has worked for years to perfect just the right whack to the noggin. Too little and there are no stars, too much and the ability to gather data is lost. His theory is that a Pisces would react differently than a Taurus to the same concussive event. He may never know. He just can’t seem to recruit test subjects. Friends think he has studied a bit too much on his own. Etymology: trauma (physical injury) + astrology (the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world) Created by: artr.

Comments on Traumastrology:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00
like it

wayoffcenter, 2009-02-19: 06:46:00
The science of the 2X4. Love it!

Mustang, 2009-02-19: 20:51:00
Good one.

Nosila, 2009-02-20: 01:40:00
Deja vu all over again…where do you get your inspiration???

mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:00:00
nice…

Starspangledbanger: /star-spangld-BANG-ehr/ When the stars were whirling around his head and he heard the ‘music’ playing after rapping his head very hard on a low overhang Arnold said aloud to no one in particular, “Whoa…that was really a starspangledbanger.” Etymology: Substituted ‘banger’ for ‘banner’ of Star Spangled Banner. Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Starspangledbanger:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:53:00
love it

silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:36:00
outstanding!

Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:57:00
Bang On!

Concustellation: /con-cus-tell-ay-shun/ Sally was a huge astrology buff and was disappointed to realize that the advent of tiny new planets in her peripheral vison was really just a concustellation, an unfortunate result of running into a tree head first. Etymology: concussion + constellation Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Concustellation:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00
heh!

silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:28:00
the 2nd syllable (cuss) is what might happen after a concustellation!

mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:02:00
very clever..

Conkfetti: /conk fet ee/ Mother Hubbard woke up to hear the kids in the kitchen. She went running and smacked her head on the open cupboard door. Instead of seeing what was going on, all she could see was conkfetti.
Etymology: CONK, CONFETTI Conk – a blow to the head. Confetti – small pieces of colored paper, often in the shapes of stars, birds, flowers, et cetera, that are thrown over people’s heads, usually at celebrations. Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Conkfetti:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 01:02:00
Song of the day: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:52:00
terrific word

Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:59:00
I must Conkfess I love it!

metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:38:00
Good one, SA! I must say!

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James

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DEFINITION: n. The tight-packed wads of fluff found in the dryer after doing laundry. v. To uncurl and dissect the fluff found in a dryer while trying to figure what it once was.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Whirlpearl: /wÉ™rlpÉ™rl/ After John retired he had to find things to keep himself busy. Sometimes it was shopping, sometimes sorting his clothes by color and hue. But today there would be none of that. Last night after doing the laundry he had found a whirlpearl — one of those time capsules of thoughts or actions past. Was it a receipt? Perhaps a shopping list, maybe even a prescription for his new OCD medication. He wouldn’t know until he unfurled the various layers of this nugget. This was a particularly good one. It had escaped detection after the washing and had hard-baked through the dryer cycle. He could hardly wait. Etymology: Whirlpool(major appliance manufacturer) + pearls (a hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-gray, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusk and highly prized as a gem) Created by: artr.

Comments on Whirlpearl:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-18: 13:21:00
you’ve obviously been a whirlpearl diver

Nosila, 2009-02-19: 00:27:00
Whirlpearling is exhausting…in fact, it can leave you nacre-ed!

Godfluffsaken: /god-fluff-sa-kÉ™n/ The godfluffsaken fibres of harshly tossed, spun, dried clothes are the only remnants of clean clothes. Etymology: GODFLUFFSAKEN – from – FLUFF (light, downy particles) + GODFORSAKEN (deserted; neglected) Created by: Stevenson0.

Fibercentricks: /fy bur sen trix/ It started when George T. Sampson invented the clothes dryer on June 7, 1892. His invention lint itself to, well, lint. Lint had never been manufactured in such large quantities before. This gave the idea to doctors that dryers seem to run better when they had lots of fiber. Perhaps that theory would work for humans, too. Analyzing the end product was the study of fibercentricks. Running trace evidence of dryer fiber gave scientists and criminologists the evidence that both socks had entered the dryer at the same time, but only one came out. Have all these missing socks been turned into piles of fluffy, fiberous lint? Or did Mr. Sampson have a more sinister trick up his sleeve when he made his now famous invention? This would be a hard case to unravel… Etymology: Fibre (a thread or filament from which a plant or animal tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed;dietary material containing substances such as cellulose, that are resistant to the action of digestive enzymes) & Cybercentrics (meeting of business ideas with the broadcast opportunutues of cyberspace) & Tricks (an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Fibercentricks:

TJayzz, 2009-02-18: 08:15:00
Nice one!

splendiction, 2009-02-18: 12:45:00
Your mystery is hilarious! where do those socks go?

Furensics: /furr ehn ziks/ His furensic examination of the siemens led him to believe that the bosch had led the detail but there had been a paws before final extermination. Etymology: forensic fur Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Furensics:

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-18: 13:19:00
puntastic

mweinmann, 2009-02-19: 08:28:00
like it!

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James

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DEFINITION: n. A person who lives in their car because they have lost their home. v. To live in your car.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Tajmauhaul: /täzhmÉ™yoōhäl/ When Todd’s company decided to move him to LA they made no provisions for higher cost of living. Finding a home or apartment that he could afford was next to impossible. He did however note that they allowed for the rental of truck to be used for self-movers for as long as was necessary. That’s when Todd moved into the Tajmauhaul. He opted for the 24-foot model to allow for optimal viewing of his plasma TV. It was as big as some of the efficiencies he had looked at and considerably cheaper under the leasing plan. The only issue he has had is that speed bump in the company parking lot sloshing water out of his new hot tub. Next month he is considering adding bay windows. Etymology: Taj Mahal (a mausoleum at Agra, India, built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (1592–1666) in memory of his favorite wife) + U-Haul (a rental truck company) Created by: artr.

Comments on Tajmauhaul:

TJayzz, 2009-02-17: 05:08:00
Good one

Nosila, 2009-02-17: 20:25:00
Great word…very INDUStrious!

Condominivan: /kon doh min eeeeeeeeeee van/ He lived in a condominivan with his wife, two kids, his pet sheep and his accountant. Etymology: condominium, mini van Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Condominivan:

Mustang, 2009-02-17: 08:14:00
Excellent blend. Sheep and accountant? Sounds kinky….he said, with a sheepish grin.

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-17: 09:35:00
fantastic

Nosila, 2009-02-19: 01:21:00
I think you mean Vantastic,Jab…and as for the sheep, ewe go galwaywegian!

Dwellonwheels: /DWELL on WHEELS/ When I was younger, I was hellonwheels, riding around on my Harley. But now I’ve been reduced to dwellonwheels because I am living in my car. Etymology: Play on HELL ON WHEELS and made up from DWELL and WHEELS Created by: kateinkorea.

Comments on Dwellonwheels:

silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:32:00
Puntastic!

Guest, 2009-02-17: 17:40:00
Nice play on words

Ismelstar, 2009-02-18: 19:55:00
This just make me giggle. Nice Job!

Suvivor: /suv-IVE-uhr/ After being tossed out by her two-timing husband Muriel grabbed her two kids and their puppy and she became a suvivor, happy that she at least had the SUV as it provided a bit more in the way of creature comforts than a smaller vehicle may have done
Etymology: Use of SUV (acronym for Sports Utility Vehicle) and is a play on the word survivor. Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Suvivor:

galwaywegian, 2009-02-17: 06:52:00
best one yet!

Jabberwocky, 2009-02-17: 09:35:00
terrific

splendiction, 2009-02-18: 12:40:00
This is the word! Great story!

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Be Creative,

James

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