{"id":156,"date":"2007-08-24T00:53:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T04:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-08-24T00:53:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T04:53:46","slug":"this-is-going-to-be-the-closest-shave-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"This is going to be the closest shave ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> To push yourself so hard, to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you end up undercutting your own success.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/shave2.gif\" alt=\"This is going to be the closest shave ever!\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Paragonwrong<\/strong>:  \/<em>parra-gone-wrong<\/em>\/ Nikos dream of perfection was never reached. He wanted his cafe in the centre of town to be the epitome of a Greek kafenion, but he was never satisfied with the decor and continued to import nick-nacks and concrete all the surrounding area until the customers could barely find room to sit. He was a paragonwrong. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  paragon + gone wrong <em>Created by:<\/em> petaj.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Paragonorrhea<\/strong>:  \/<em>pare-ah-gon-ah-ree-ah<\/em>\/ Hair perfectly coiffed, immaculate three-piece suit, and a fresh coat of polish on his shoes &#8211; it was readily apparent to all who attended the company picnic that Bob was dealing with a nasty bout of paragonorrhea. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  paragon, gonorrhea <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Nulltimate<\/strong>:  \/<em>nuhl-tuh-mit<\/em>\/ He was forever trying so hard to get it right he continued to achieve the nulltimate goal &#8211; nothing! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  null + ultimate <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Perfaultion<\/strong>:  \/<em>per-fault-shun<\/em>\/ Her tendency to over-pluck her eyebrows is a perfualtion. Now after years of tweezing, plucking and pulling, her eyebrows won&#8217;t even grow at all. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  perfection + fault <em>Created by:<\/em> KristinA.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=shave2\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=shave2<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">Be Creative,<\/p>\n<p>James<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/\/\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: To push yourself so hard, to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you end up undercutting your own success. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Paragonwrong: \/parra-gone-wrong\/ Nikos dream of perfection was never reached. He wanted his cafe in the centre of town to be the epitome of a Greek &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is going to be the closest shave ever!<\/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\/156"}],"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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}