{"id":1338,"date":"2011-11-10T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2011-11-10T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:00:11","slug":"lineswine-hello-hello-is-this-customer-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Lineswine: Hello? Hello? Is this customer service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To greet a person on the phone in rude or obnoxious manner, and then do your best to ignore, or talk over, whatever they say as the conversation continues. <em>n.<\/em> A person with atrocious phone manners. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/hello.gif\" alt=\"Hello? Hello? Is this customer service?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lineswine<\/strong>:  \/<em>line-swine<\/em>\/ &#8220;WHO&#8217;S THIS?!?!?&#8221; barked the old lady over the phone. I immediately hung up.  Not dealing with lineswine today. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  line (phone line) + swine (pig) <em>Created by:<\/em> youmustvotenato.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sinsolent<\/strong>:  \/<em>sin sil ent<\/em>\/ Rudi Persson was prone to be a sinsolent individual.  She was paid to answer phones and help people, but in fact, she did the opposite. When people told her, &#8220;Have a Nice Day&#8221;, she would mutter, &#8220;I&#8217;ve made other plans&#8221;. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Sin (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake) &amp; Insolent (marked by casual disrespect;an offensive disrespectful impudent act;trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties) <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obnoxyeller<\/strong>:  \/<em>\u00c9\u2122bn\u00c3\u00a4kyel\u00c9\u2122r<\/em>\/ Brittney is such an obnoxyeller that nobody wants to be placed near her cubicle. Her shrieking has been known to effect calls by other salespersons. Strangely, her customers find her ranting more entertaining than offending. They also tend to be fans of the Soup Nazi from Sienfeld. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  obnoxious (extremely unpleasant) + yeller (a person who is loud\/shouts) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=hello\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=hello<\/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 greet a person on the phone in rude or obnoxious manner, and then do your best to ignore, or talk over, whatever they say as the conversation continues. n. A person with atrocious phone manners. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Lineswine: \/line-swine\/ &#8220;WHO&#8217;S THIS?!?!?&#8221; barked the old lady over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lineswine: Hello? Hello? Is this customer service?<\/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\/1338"}],"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=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}