{"id":1586,"date":"2012-11-28T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:05:09","slug":"tenassity-this-bank-machine-is-so-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Tenassity: This bank machine is so stupid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em>, To have the strength of character, persistence of heart, and dimness of wit to follow an unchanging course of action even when it is completely ineffective. <em>n.<\/em>, A person who unhappily does the same thing over and over again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/swipe.gif\" alt=\"This bank machine is so stupid.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tenassity<\/strong>:  \/<em>ten as sit ee<\/em>\/ Ivana shows pure tenassity when she endlessly tries to get money out of her overdrawn account on the bank machine. She reckons that if she still has a card, it should still magically provide her with funds&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Tenacity (persistent determination) &amp; Ass (a pompous fool) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Determinut<\/strong>:  \/<em>dee-TERM-eh-nut<\/em>\/ Lucinda is a thorough determinut,  never willing to accept any kind of failure, even though all indications prove that failure is final and absolute. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;determined&#8217; (resolute; staunch) and &#8216;nut&#8217; (someone who is foolish, silly, or insane) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cartblank<\/strong>:  \/<em>kart blaank<\/em>\/ Barbie was so cartblank, she thought any plastic card she used was carte blanche at any ATM for her monetary desires<br \/>\n <em>Etymology:<\/em>  A spin off of carte blanche (a blank check)<br \/>\nMaking someone go card blank, crazy<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> DrWebsterIII.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinkthunk<\/strong>:  \/<em>thingk-thuhngk<\/em>\/ Some of Marsha&#8217;s friends call her bone-headed. She prefers to think of herself as persistent. In any case she will thinkthunk her way through most any situation, rushing in and trying the first solution that occurs to her, banging her head against failure, backing up and trying it again until she breaks something or someone steps in to do it for her.   <em>Etymology:<\/em>  think (to consider something as a possible action, choice, etc) + thunk (an abrupt, dull sound) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=swipe\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=swipe<\/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 have the strength of character, persistence of heart, and dimness of wit to follow an unchanging course of action even when it is completely ineffective. n., A person who unhappily does the same thing over and over again. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Tenassity: \/ten as sit ee\/ Ivana &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1586\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tenassity: This bank machine is so stupid.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1586"}],"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=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}