{"id":1172,"date":"2011-03-28T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:00:08","slug":"rationalbatross-all-i-had-was-a-wooden-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Rationalbatross: All I had was a wooden brain…"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFINITION:<\/strong> n.<\/em> A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity. v.<\/em> To dismantle a logical argument with piles of passionate incoherence.<\/p>\n

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VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n

Rationalbatross<\/strong>: \/ra shun al bit ross<\/em>\/ When Penelope asked her father, Gordie, for a computer (or anything that cost money), he had his usual rationalbatross excuse ready. On this occasion it was about the fact that when he was young, computers were a science fiction story, not reality. So he had to develop his super brainpower to get through all eight of his years of school. Of course, he then went into his old “I walked through five feet of snow for eight miles without boots or a winter coat, carrying a raw potato for my lunch at school, after I had milked the cows, fed the pigs and chickens and brought in a bucket of snow to melt for water” schtick. Etymology:<\/em> Rational (logical) & Albatross (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps) Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n

Duhbate<\/strong>: \/duuh – bate<\/em>\/ When I told my brother that I was going to take a little time to travel across the Midwest, he launched into a duhbate about how unsafe it was and roving bands of renegade rodeo stars that wander the streets. He told me he had spent some time there during his own rodeo days and he had first hand experience; i know better- that he’s never left the New York Metro area. Etymology:<\/em> duh + debate Created by:<\/em> libertybelle.<\/p>\n

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Comments on Duhbate:<\/strong><\/p>\n

libertybelle<\/a><\/strong>, 2011-03-24: 10:14:00<\/em>
i wish i could say that this wasn’t based on a true story…<\/p>\n

Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, 2011-03-25: 00:45:00<\/em>
Love it…sounds like your brother is a rodeo clown!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Logihooey<\/strong>: \/l\u00c3\u00a4jiho\u00c5\u008d\u00c4\u201c<\/em>\/ Whenever Cindy approaches her father with a proposal to buy something he bombards her with logihooey, passionate drivel about how he had to work for everything he has ever owned. To hear him, you would think that, as a baby, he had to work to buy his own diapers. Etymology:<\/em> logic (reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity) + hooey (nonsense) Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n

Manicdotal<\/strong>: \/man-ik-doe-tul<\/em>\/ In order to get the upperhand in this argument he was going to need to provide some pretty persuasive manicdotal evidence Etymology:<\/em> manic, anecdote Created by:<\/em> rikboyee.<\/p>\n

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:

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James<\/p>\n

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DEFINITION: n. A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity. v. To dismantle a logical argument with piles of passionate incoherence. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Rationalbatross: \/ra shun al bit ross\/ When Penelope asked her … Continue reading Rationalbatross: All I had was a wooden brain…<\/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\/1172"}],"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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}