{"id":1604,"date":"2012-12-21T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2012-12-21T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:04:03","slug":"drunklebob-why-are-you-vacuuming-the-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Drunklebob: Why are you vacuuming the Christmas tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, 1. A pine needle infestation, common during and after the holiday season. 2. Prickly Christmas guests who will not leave and cannot be cleaned up. <em>v.<\/em>, To fall down during a holiday party and hide under a rug.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/vacuum.gif\" alt=\"Why are you vacuuming the Christmas tree?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drunklebob<\/strong>:  \/<em>drunk-el-bob<\/em>\/ Once again Kate and Lonnie&#8217;s Christmas party guests were snickering and whispering about &#8216;Drunklebob&#8217;,  Kate&#8217;s uncle Bob, who had once again over imbibed on the spiked egg nog and was passed out under the Christmas tree. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;Drunk&#8217;, &#8216;Uncle&#8217; and &#8216;Bob&#8217; <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Drunklebob:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=artr\">artr<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2012-12-20: 10:03:00<\/em> <br \/>Nice one! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Efirafter<\/strong>:  \/<em>ef ir af ter<\/em>\/ Once upon a time there was a prince and princess who made the mistake of getting a real tree on their first Christmas together. One of the things that keeps them together still is finding and vacuuming tree needles,all year long, happily efirafter. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Everafter (from now on, to eternity) &amp; Fir (any of various evergreen trees) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Velcronies<\/strong>:  \/<em>vel-kroh-neez<\/em>\/ Jimmy thought it would be nice to throw a Christmas party for his buds. Now it&#8217;s getting late and he has to work tomorrow but his velcronies just won&#8217;t take a hint and go home. Even changing into his pajamas didn&#8217;t do the trick.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  velcro (tradename for a hook &amp; loop fastener) + cronies (a close friend or companion; chum) <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=vacuum\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=vacuum<\/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: n., 1. A pine needle infestation, common during and after the holiday season. 2. Prickly Christmas guests who will not leave and cannot be cleaned up. v., To fall down during a holiday party and hide under a rug. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Drunklebob: \/drunk-el-bob\/ Once again Kate and Lonnie&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drunklebob: Why are you vacuuming the Christmas tree?<\/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\/1604"}],"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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}