{"id":1349,"date":"2011-11-24T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2011-11-24T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T17:00:11","slug":"missunderstood-i-just-asked-the-boss-if-shed-date-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Missunderstood: I just asked the boss if she&#8217;d date me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To make a mistake where the benefits exceed the costs of the screw-up. <em>n.<\/em> An excellent mistake, which despite its stupidity, produces a positive outcome. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/slip.gif\" alt=\"I just asked the boss if she'd date me...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Missunderstood<\/strong>:  \/<em>miss under stood<\/em>\/ When Joe asked Miss Rogers out on a date, he thought she misstook his intentions, because she fired him. He at first was hurt. She explained later that the Company had a policy against the workers dating each other and since she found him hot and he hated his job anyway, it was a blunderful result. She missunderstood him. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Miss (young female) &amp; Understood (indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blunderluck<\/strong>:  \/<em>bl\u00c9\u2122nd\u00c9\u2122rl\u00c9\u2122k<\/em>\/ Robert didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize his mother in-law was standing in the doorway when he confessed to his brother that he hated her green bean casserole. Rob\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  blunderluck was that she hated it too but continued to foist it on the family thinking they enjoyed it. She was greatly relieved to be able to try something new.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  blunder (a stupid or careless mistake) + luck (success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one&#8217;s own actions) <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=slip\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=slip<\/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 make a mistake where the benefits exceed the costs of the screw-up. n. An excellent mistake, which despite its stupidity, produces a positive outcome. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Missunderstood: \/miss under stood\/ When Joe asked Miss Rogers out on a date, he thought she misstook his intentions, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missunderstood: I just asked the boss if she&#8217;d date me&#8230;<\/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\/1349"}],"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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}