{"id":269,"date":"2008-02-02T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2008-02-02T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T23:01:34","slug":"biographoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Biographoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v. intr.,<\/em> To identify so strongly with character from a book, show, or urban legend, that you become convinced that the story is actually about you. <em>n.,<\/em> A person who believes they are a fictional character in wonderfully tragic and heroic story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/kong.gif\" alt=\"I am King Kong!\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographoon<\/strong>:  \/<em>bi-og-ruh-foon<\/em>\/ That stupid orphan boy has been wearing those glasses ever since he read the Harry Potter books, and I heard that he is such a biographoon, he&#8217;s even considering getting a lightning bolt tattooed on his forehead. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Biography combined with buffoon. <em>Created by:<\/em> zebrahdh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Biographoon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-24: 09:32:00<\/em><br \/>\nClever combo!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=zebrahdh\">zebrahdh<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-24: 21:21:00<\/em><br \/>\nThanks<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-25: 03:40:00<\/em><br \/>\nI think it the same boy, having killed his mother and father, threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan! But after all an autobiography is a popular form of fiction in which the writer is always the hero! Interesting word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Fictomaniac<\/strong>:  \/<em>fik-to-MEY-nee-ak<\/em>\/ Obsessed by Disney characters, but a frazzled fictomaniac, Bob&#8217;s &#8220;plutolatry&#8221; convinced him of his true identity. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of Fiction &amp; mania <em>Created by:<\/em> OZZIEBOB.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Fictomaniac:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-24: 09:31:00<\/em><br \/>\nSo right on the definition.  Good one!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-24: 12:05:00<\/em><br \/>\nlove plutolatry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Skitsophrenic<\/strong>:  \/<em>-skit-suh-fren-ik-<\/em>\/ Every time Julian watches the movie Star Wars, especially the jedi fight scenes, he becomes a total skitsophrenic \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he thinks he&#8217;s Luke Skywalker, and he jumps up and starts fighting off illusionary enemies with his imaginary lightsaber. He&#8217;s such an autobiografool! <em>Etymology:<\/em> skit &#8211; a short literary or theatrical piece, or sketch (from Old Norse, skjuta &#8220;to shoot&#8221;) + schizophrenic &#8211; term used to describe a person with multiple personality disorder (from Greek, skhizein &#8220;to split&#8221; &amp; phrenic &#8220;of the mind&#8221;) <em>Created by:<\/em> Tigger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Skitsophrenic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Dougalistic\">Dougalistic<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-24: 04:30:00<\/em><br \/>\nGood word tigger!! Love the word use and blendage! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-24: 09:34:00<\/em><br \/>\nGreat creation!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-24: 16:10:00<\/em><br \/>\nGreat word, but don&#8217;t let Julian watch &#8220;Sybil&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Dejalieu<\/strong>:  \/<em>day-ja-loo<\/em>\/ Unfortunately, when Sandra read The Metamorphosis to her rodent friend, he experienced such a strong feeling of dejalieu that he turned into a large roach and had to be smashed immediately. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  deja vu (a familiar feeling) + in lieu of (in place of, or instead of) <em>Created by:<\/em> yellowbird.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=kong\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=kong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative,<\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/\/\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Definition Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Verbotomy\">Verbotomy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2008-01-24: 00:01:00<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s definition was suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Dougalistic\"><strong>Dougalistic<\/strong><\/a>. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2008-01-25: 11:30:00<\/em><br \/>\nEveryone got me-deep into this definition!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. intr., To identify so strongly with character from a book, show, or urban legend, that you become convinced that the story is actually about you. n., A person who believes they are a fictional character in wonderfully tragic and heroic story. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Biographoon: \/bi-og-ruh-foon\/ That stupid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biographoon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3,4],"tags":[90,92,93,89,91,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}