{"id":161,"date":"2007-08-28T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T12:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2007-08-28T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T12:09:39","slug":"why-do-you-keep-looking-at-your-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Why&#8230; do&#8230; you&#8230; keep&#8230; looking&#8230; at&#8230; your&#8230; watch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly through long explications, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/talker2.gif\" alt=\"Why...  do...  you...  keep... looking... at... your...  watch?\" 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>Sloliloquist<\/strong>:  \/<em>slow-lill-a-kwist<\/em>\/ Alas, poor Rick, was such a slowliloquist that he would never again tread the boards as Hamlet. He was still to-being or not-to-being when the last members of the audience reached home. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  slow + soliloquist <em>Created by:<\/em> petaj.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Loqwaitcious<\/strong>:  \/<em>loh-KWAYT-shuhs<\/em>\/ Alex fell asleep during the loqwaitcious ramblings of his date&#8217;s explaining how she had finally come to the decision to go out with him. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  loquacious (talkative) + wait <em>Created by:<\/em> mplsbohemian.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Turtell<\/strong>:  \/<em>tur-tell<\/em>\/ Bob was a true turtell. He was so slowquacious that by the time he yelled &#8220;Fire!&#8221;, the garage was nothing but a pile of smoldering embers. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  turtle, tell <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Yawnyacker<\/strong>:  \/<em>yawn-yak-er<\/em>\/ Bill is such a yawnyacker &#8211; people have been known to commit suicide rather than wait for him to stop talking. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  yawn + yack (persistent annoying chatter) <em>Created by:<\/em> logorrhoea.<\/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=talker2\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=talker2<\/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: A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly through long explications, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Sloliloquist: \/slow-lill-a-kwist\/ Alas, poor Rick, was such a slowliloquist that he would never again tread the boards as Hamlet. He was still to-being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why&#8230; do&#8230; you&#8230; keep&#8230; looking&#8230; at&#8230; your&#8230; watch?<\/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\/161"}],"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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}