Category: verbotoweek

Petaj Wins The Verbotomy Cup!

Congratulations to petaj for winning this week’s Verbotomy and the very first Verbotomy Cup. The questions is: What special word will she choose to have imprinted on her smiling mug? Will it be her top scoring “insultant”? Certainly an appropriate “mot” if she works at a large office…

And of course we must honor the closest competitors, Jabberwocky, Stevenson0 and Purplearitchokes. All three of these writers have been verb-to-verb with the winners each week this month, and were noun-to-noun with petaj all week long. In fact, Jabberwocky and Stevenson0 are at the very top of our list of all-time creative writers. They are also two, of the first three players, to have created over 100 verboticisms. Jabberwocky now has 100 words. Stevenson0 has 105 words. And the ersamus has 102! And guess what? Petaj is right behind these leaders with 99 words, and Purplearitchokes is following closely with 97. There are a few other players who joined Verbotomy when it was launched for beta-testing in November/December 2006, and belong to this founding group: Alchemist (96 words), ErWenn (94 words), and rikboyee (91 words). (If any of these stats are incorrect, please let us know…) Cheers to all of you! We enjoy your brilliance!

See the final weekly results here:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomists.php?week=2007-04-23

Verbotoweek in a single pair of graphs

There can certainly be eaudoubt that this week’s verbotomy challenge was strictly mindoverbatter with the insultants and indinatarys profijeeroring from our petifoul disclothesure. When the scornstar charged in with his stalkportfolio, wearing only flip flops which exacerbated his stangst and stinkytoesis, the odorosis was so significant it flattergasted the office with appreekhension. Things came to a cerebroil when the petiquette revelationship came to light and the belligerist began to snuffleupaguest right in front of abusedriver, which caused the passengers on the bus to cravewave someone they could stalkognize so they could escape the anxietydisodor. There was much to be said this week for the telekitchenesis in the mass mindcrowave. So get your fingers poised over your keyboards for this week verboticisms.

Top five verboticisms of the week:

1. insultant Created by: petaj
2. indignatary Created by: purpleartichokes
3. scornstar Created by: porsche
4. stangst Created by: petaj
5. mindcrowave Created by: rikboyee

Interesting and creative conversations

Comments on insultant Created by: petaj

galwaywegian – 2007-04-23: 06:46:00
terrible, useless word. I’m giving you my vote even though you don’t deserve it!

wordmeister – 2007-04-23: 10:08:00
Obviously, galwaywegian works for a very large, very successful, and very expensive insulting firm. So begrudgingly, I will follow his lead and proffer my two cents to petaj.

petaj – 2007-04-23: 18:45:00
Thanks for the reprehensible comments. Is that the best you can do in the way of profijeering. And you call yourselves scornstars! Hmmph.

purpleartichokes – 2007-04-23: 19:23:00
I agree with galwaywegian. Your word is a boil on the verbotobutt, a verbotocyst. My vote was just pity points, don’t take it too seriously.

Jabberwocky had people’s tongues wagging, and stomachs turning, with marvelous sentence for Revelationship, her verbotocism about the discovering a friend’s “shrine” of somewhat compromising photos: “The revelationship that Jim had feelings for her caused her to hurl all over his new laptop.” Petaj commented “euww! vaiomit. Is there a tablet for that?”, and ohwtepph followed with “Nice… *vomits too*”. Wow! It’s amazing what you can do with all this new technology!

HEY! These words are better than most, but we ignored them this week!! WHY?!?!?!

• Psycook Created by: Osomatic
• Defamician Created by: emmyb2
• Toxicstalksyndrome Created by: porsche
• Smellyfriztfootboot Created by: LogoEggoGurl
• Instink Created by: mplsbohemian

Your stumbling observer,

Weeklink

In this week’s blahg, I’ll technoblab, arroglance and chronicletwopointoverkill our Verbotomist’s performances. Verbotomy had a superflupress epicdemic of fortythinks and nightbulbs that kept us up all night. After so much sleepdeprivision, some of us were stricken with a rare allergy that caused snotyets gesundhalt achoops and aahaahhalmosts. With one last snease, we pushwhacked our yackberrys in a great show of pushoneupmanship. Hopefully this won’t prescalate into another insomnipiphany and we can spend this coming week windowcopping and warrenebeautyspotting. It’s difficult not to obcell over such excellent words. It does tend to create some buttonenvy, but we should view it not as another irristibutton, but as an inspirwaketion and never lose sight of the ultimate goal – to have fun and be creative.

The Right-Brain Verbotomists!

OMIGOD! JediJawa snatched the prize from StevensonO by just two points! What a creative genius and fierce competitor! We bow in his honor… And Jabberwocky and petaj were right on their tails. (Figuratively speaking of course!) So what can we say to JediJawa? Congratulations! We hope you’re smugmuggling yourself on your blahg! Keep up the good work! We love it!

Here are the top five words of the week for April 09 – April 15, 2007:

1. nightbulb
2. blahg
3. fortythinks
4. snee
5. arroglance

Top snippers, snippets and snibblers:

1. The comments on Purplearichokes digiredoo

pinwheel – 2007-04-10: 07:20:00
Of course if you restrained yourself, that would be digiredidnt!

petaj – 2007-04-10: 07:23:00
One of my favourite entertainments is a magic trick using an Aboriginal wind instrument – prestididgeriduation

Bulletchewer – 2007-04-10: 07:46:00
Digging Rolf’s wobble board meself, sport. All together now “tie me kangaroo down, sport, tie me kangaroo down”.

purpleartichokes – 2007-04-10: 08:21:00
Aw geez. Another song to get stuck in my head.

Osomatic – 2007-04-11: 17:13:00
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that’s it hangin’ on the shed.

2. The comments on Reblogitate by ErWinn

purpleartichokes – 2007-04-11: 13:20:00
Ah, you were a pop-up blogger back then. BTW, love the word. Sounds great when you stick out your tongue to emphasize the “blah” sound in the middle.

wordmeister – 2007-04-11: 14:15:00
Yeah it’s funny… All this new stuff, new technology, and even new words, and it’s really the same old stuff we have been doing forever…

ErWenn – 2007-04-11: 17:17:00
The difference being is that now there’s a fad for showing off all this stuff to anyone willing to pay attention.

3. Comments: Antichoo

Alchemist – 2007-04-12: 01:08:00
if you choose to choo, is it a pikachu?

galwaywegian – 2007-04-12: 04:47:00
what about uncle choo?

purpleartichokes – 2007-04-12: 04:57:00
He went into the shoe business with his nephew Jimmy.

Stevenson0 – 2007-04-12: 12:40:00
Good Word!! Also one who swallows their food whole.

Our Favorite Words That — Somehow — Our Verbotomists Overlooked This Week:

• Chimpressario
• Sneezycomesneezygo
• Sadnauseam
• Kawinkythink
• Nocturntoss

Your humbled observer

Weeklink

It was a wildly creative week where our players’ imaginations were pushed from forgotten birthdays (James’s personal foley) to virtual brain death thanks to catgrin’s TV/DVD obsessions. I must admit I was completely flintstoned and suffered from painful gomerpiles while watching rikboyee quickly dumbfound the competition with his clever retortise. And I almost went mimeopathic seeing that twinch was overlooked, or undervoted, by our team of expert verbotomists. The winner of the week, cellfish by purpleartichokes, finished on top with a strong lead, despite the fact the it must have been subject to some vote splitting thanks to Ziggy41’s equally clever, and phonetically matched, celfish.

Here are the top five words for the week of April 2 – April 8, 2007.

1. cellfish
2. episodomy
3. retalilate
4. retortoise
5. schizoscreenia

Top snippers, snippets and snibblers

Of course, the most fun is often reading the clever reparteasies that often occur between players as they play for verbal oneupmanship. Here are a few of my favorite snippletts…

Bulletchewer ranting on Olsenation

Bulletchewer – 2007-04-04: 14:33:00
*mimicked And is “annoying” a new euphemism for “hot”?

Jabberwocky – 2007-04-05: 08:57:00
Yikes!! Bulletchewer has a crush on the Olsens

And of course purpleartichokes’ brilliant word, “thinket“, inspired lots of conversation… It seem that thinkets or, or as bulletchewer calls them “thoughtdiscounts“, are an ever present phemnomen that prove that while the thought may count for something, it does not count for enough. (Attention all males, this is a wake-up call!)

I might actually use this one in real life. – iwasatripwire, 2007-04-06: 13:59:00

Can the sympoms of doghousen syndrome be eased by the sufferer sleeping on the sofa, or indeed in the doghouse? – Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00

*symptoms – Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00

I like sympoms better. Pays homage to The Simpsons and celebrates this dohccasion. And “The Couch” brings back such bad memories for my boyfriend that he’d prefer to sleep on my f.u.ton. – purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 18:30:00

Ignore his f.u.tile excuses. Tell him you want your birthday celebelated. – petaj, 2007-04-06: 19:57:00

Oooo, celebelate is a GREAT word! – purpleartichokes, 2007-04-07: 06:03:00

One can only hope that our poor James, who confessed while trying to deny it, that this definition reflected his own personal dissendowment, was not completely celeberated.

We are eagerly watching the results this week to see who will win the blessing of Daniel Pink…

Your humble observer,

Weeklink