{"id":1693,"date":"2013-04-19T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2013-04-19T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:01:59","slug":"serendumbity-i-just-asked-the-boss-if-shed-date-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Serendumbity: I just asked the boss if she&#8217;d date me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To make a mistake where the benefits exceed the costs of the screw-up. <em>n.<\/em> An excellent mistake, which despite its stupidity, produces a positive outcome. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/slip.gif\" alt=\"I just asked the boss if she'd date me...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serendumbity<\/strong>:  \/<em>sair-ehn-DUM-eh-tye<\/em>\/ Once again Filbert was the accidental &#8216;victim&#8217; of serendumbity,  having made what for anyone else would be a major faux pas but for him ended up with his dream date. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;serendipity&#8217; (finding unexpected treasure or joy) and &#8216;dumb&#8217; (stupid &#8211; unintelligent) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wincorrect<\/strong>:  \/<em>win kor rekt<\/em>\/ Tony always played the same lottery numbers every week&#8230;a combination of birthdates of his family. For 20 years he won nothing. One day he had to rewrite his lottery board because the old one would not go through the reader.  He accidentally transposed one birthdate from an 12 to a 21 and lo and behold that group he selected won full prize of several millions&#8230;he got the wincorrect winning numbers afterall! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Win (victory;attain something) &amp; Incorrect (not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snafruition<\/strong>:  \/<em>sna-froo-ish-uhn<\/em>\/ Jerry was just another starving artist. After years of trying, he finally found a Gallery Director who was willing to look at his watercolors. His wish to be successful came to snafruition when he got caught in a downpour on his way to the gallery. The Director proclaimed his half-blurred paintings as genius and immediately scheduled a showing.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  snafu (mistake) + fruition (attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment) <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=slip\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=slip<\/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 make a mistake where the benefits exceed the costs of the screw-up. n. An excellent mistake, which despite its stupidity, produces a positive outcome. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Serendumbity: \/sair-ehn-DUM-eh-tye\/ Once again Filbert was the accidental &#8216;victim&#8217; of serendumbity, having made what for anyone else would be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serendumbity: I just asked the boss if she&#8217;d date me&#8230;<\/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\/1693"}],"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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}