{"id":149,"date":"2007-08-14T00:54:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T04:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-08-14T00:54:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T04:54:22","slug":"i-coughed-up-50-for-these-tickets-and-what-do-i-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"I coughed up $50 for these tickets and what do I get?"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFINITION:<\/strong> The slow but steady rise of murmurs, coughs or harrumphs in audience. May indicate audience dissatisfaction, or the presence of a lethally infectious virus.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Pandepneumonium<\/strong>: \/pan-de-nyew-moan-ee-um<\/em>\/ Despite the attendance figures steadily declining, pandepneumonium could be discerned as the flu took hold eliciting the full gamut of coughs, sneezes, growls and snorts. Etymology:<\/em> pandemonium + pneumonia Created by:<\/em> petaj.<\/font><\/p>\n

Acriscendo<\/strong>: \/ak-kri-SHEN-do<\/em>\/ A euphorical blisscendia warmed up the wonder of fans as they eagerly awaited the appearance on stage of their fire-eating idol. But after an hour had passed, and still he had not appeared a slow, rythmic handclapping began. The bliss had bottomed out; acriscendo was almost apexical. And, by the time the riot squad arrived, some aggrescendic, fired-up fans had turned the stadium into conflagrational chaoscendico. Etymology:<\/em> Acriscendo: blending of acriminious & crescendo (“rising bitterness”). Blisscendia: blending of bliss & incendiary (“fiery bliss”) Aggrescendic: blending of aggression & crescendo (“growing aggression”) Chaoscendico: blending of chaos, crescendo & ic ( Created by:<\/em> OZZIEBOB.<\/font><\/p>\n

Expectatoration<\/strong>: \/eck-speck-tay-toh-RAY-shun<\/em>\/ As the latest incarnation of INXS launched into the second half of an anemic concert filled with 25 year old hits, a muffled, yet audible wave of expectatoration moved across the arena, but not in the usual cheerful way one often sees at sporting events. Etymology:<\/em> Expectoration (throat clearing, spitting) + spectators. Created by:<\/em> Kyoti.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ahemplification<\/strong>: \/uh-hehm-plih-fih-KAY-shuhn<\/em>\/ Alex’s one-man show, “I Was A Dating Ne’er-Do-Well” closed after one night, as indicated by the massive ahemplification through the show. Etymology:<\/em> ahem + amplification Created by:<\/em> mplsbohemian.<\/font><\/p>\n

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DEFINITION: The slow but steady rise of murmurs, coughs or harrumphs in audience. May indicate audience dissatisfaction, or the presence of a lethally infectious virus. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Pandepneumonium: \/pan-de-nyew-moan-ee-um\/ Despite the attendance figures steadily declining, pandepneumonium could be discerned as the flu took hold eliciting the full gamut of … Continue reading I coughed up $50 for these tickets and what do I get?<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}