{"id":25,"date":"2007-03-29T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-03-31T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T20:33:02","slug":"thats-my-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s my word!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> To engage in an emotional debate over the small, yet somehow surprisingly important details in a simple game.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/lists\/images\/jimage\/squabble.png\" alt=\"That's my word!\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" \/><\/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>Scrapple<\/strong>:  \/<em>skra-pull<\/em>\/ Despite the fact that the points were as useless as tits on a bull, Bulletchewer and Jabberwocky scrappled over the nuances of Stevenson0&#8217;s Verbotocism. In the meantime, Purpleartichoke&#8217;s word languished, garnering nothing more than a passing glance. <em>Etymology:<\/em> Scrabble &#8211; the word game; Scrap &#8211; an argument; Scrap &#8211; a small detail; Scrapple &#8211; A Pennsylvania Dutch meat product made from cornmeal mush mixed with normally discarded pork scraps, onions, and spices. <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Monopolemics<\/strong>:  \/<em>mono-pole-em-ix<\/em>\/ Boardgames were just an excuse for us to engage in monopolemics <em>Etymology:<\/em>  monopoly (popular board game) + polemics (art or practice of controversy) <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Parcheeseoff<\/strong>:  \/<em>par-cheese-off<\/em>\/ Bill, how often gets overly competitive in games, usually starts to parcheeseoff the other players within the first rounds of the game. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Parcheesi (a game) + cheese off (annoy) <em>Created by:<\/em> jedijawa.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Protoclash<\/strong>:  \/<em>proh-tuh-klash<\/em>\/ Because of his competitive nature, a protoclash would undoubtably occur if the score was not in his favour. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  protocol (rules) + clash  <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/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=squabble\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=squabble<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">Be Creative,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">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 engage in an emotional debate over the small, yet somehow surprisingly important details in a simple game. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Scrapple: \/skra-pull\/ Despite the fact that the points were as useless as tits on a bull, Bulletchewer and Jabberwocky scrappled over the nuances of Stevenson0&#8217;s Verbotocism. In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s my word!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}