{"id":1186,"date":"2011-04-14T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:00:09","slug":"xerocks-hey-youre-copying-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"Xerocks: Hey, you&#8217;re copying me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it&#8217;s so wonderful that everyone should have one. <em>n.<\/em> An open source clone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/doctorow.gif\" alt=\"Hey, you're copying me!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xerocks<\/strong>:  \/<em>zee rox<\/em>\/ Walter was so excited by his latest science project.  He was able to xerocks himself exactly. This way he figured he could actually be in two places at once.  Yes, his new reproductive machine would xerocks his world and make him filthy rich! Too bad, Walter, that you did 2 things wrong: a) there is no way to distiguish you from your creation and b) if you were going to make another human, perhaps a handsome one would have been the smart thing to do! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Xerox (to duplicate, reproduce) &amp; Rocks (to be moved or swayed powerfully with excitement, emotion) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appropirate<\/strong>:  \/<em>ap-pro-pirate<\/em>\/ Fred would appropirate anything he found on the internet to use and share with his social network friends. He would download and copy apps, music, documents, photos and even books. Unfortunately, he ran into real trouble when he shared an app he had pirated with the person who created it. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  app:software applications used on mobile electronics such as iphones or tablets; appropriate: to take  or obtain; pirate: one who steals and plunders &#8211; to copy and distribute software without permission <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loonux<\/strong>:  \/<em>loo nuks<\/em>\/ He used loonux to develop his huge network of loonies. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  loon linux <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloningenuous<\/strong>:  \/<em>klone-in-gen-u-ous<\/em>\/ It never occured to Matt that his recycled opinions weren&#8217;t original. Even if he could acknowledge this fact, he was such a cloningenuous that he&#8217;d assume the person he&#8217;d knicked his ideas from would be flattered.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  cloning (identical copying or imitation) + ingenuous (naive, innocent) <em>Created by:<\/em> CharlieB.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=doctorow\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=doctorow<\/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: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it&#8217;s so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Xerocks: \/zee rox\/ Walter was so excited by his latest science project. He was able to xerocks himself exactly. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xerocks: Hey, you&#8217;re copying me!<\/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\/1186"}],"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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}