{"id":1100,"date":"2010-12-21T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2010-12-21T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T17:00:12","slug":"firensics-why-are-you-vacuuming-the-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Firensics: Why are you vacuuming the Christmas tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, 1. A pine needle infestation, common during and after the holiday season. 2. Prickly Christmas guests who will not leave and cannot be cleaned up. <em>v.<\/em>, To fall down during a holiday party and hide under a rug.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/vacuum.gif\" alt=\"Why are you vacuuming the Christmas tree?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firensics<\/strong>:  \/<em>fir en siks<\/em>\/ It was time to call in Lt. Horatio &#8220;Eye Candy&#8221; Cane. You know&#8230;he of the red hair, straight face and cool sunglasses. His team would soon figure out where the infestation of green needles was coming from.  Christmas was 6 months ago, so where was the source?  Pulling off his cool shades and standing with hands on hip, the lieutenant said that the trail of firensics evidence lead to a bag in the garage, covered in dead boughs and green plastic. The ghost of Christmas Tree past.<br \/>\n <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Fir (coniferous tree, often used a Christmas tree) &amp; Forensics (relating to the use of scientific methods to solve crimes and to find out who committed them&#8230;the evidence the gathers to prove criminal activity) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permaneedle<\/strong>:  \/<em>purm-ah-need-ul<\/em>\/ With all the permaneedles she discovered under the rug in July, she collected them and made miniature Christmas trees and kept them until next Christmas to give to her over-staying-their-welcome guests.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  permanent (everlasting, perpetual) + needle (from the pine or fir tree, and also to prod or tease) <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbedlier<\/strong>:  \/<em>barbd-lie-uh<\/em>\/ &#8216;Beware the barbedlier on the sofa&#8217;, Marge whispered to her husband as she passed him in the doorway. &#8216;Your friend Tom had to stay for a week the last time he was this sozzled&#8217;. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  barbed wire + lier (one who lies down) <em>Created by:<\/em> Carla.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=vacuum\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=vacuum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n., 1. A pine needle infestation, common during and after the holiday season. 2. Prickly Christmas guests who will not leave and cannot be cleaned up. v., To fall down during a holiday party and hide under a rug. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Firensics: \/fir en siks\/ It was time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firensics: Why are you vacuuming the Christmas tree?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}