{"id":280,"date":"2008-02-17T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2008-02-17T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:19:09","slug":"clicksand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Clicksand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.,<\/em> The uneasiness, social discomfort, and\/or impending sense of doom which occurs when you realize that you&#8217;ve sent out a few too many emails after drinking way too much. <em>v. intr.,<\/em> To be worried about your social standing after a night of heavy drinking and stupid emailing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/hangover.gif\" alt=\"Fell asleep at the keyboard again...\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clicksand<\/strong>:  \/<em>klik &#8211; sand<\/em>\/ Knowing there was nothing he could do to fix the inevitable drunken harm he&#8217;d done at the keyboard the previous night, Bob accepted the impending reprocussions as he stewed in his own clicksand. <em>Etymology:<\/em> click (computer or texting) + (quick)sand + click send (modified past tense of clicking the send button to send an email that now cannot be unsent) <em>Created by:<\/em> Magnetic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Clicksand:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 11:30:00<\/em><br \/>\nExcellent choice of words well blended into into a simple clear-meaning catchy verboticism. Reprocussions is a nifty one, too. Excellent creations!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 12:47:00<\/em><br \/>\nfantastic word<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-10: 16:40:00<\/em><br \/>\nabsolutely great!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Tipsymailaise<\/strong>:  \/<em>tip-see-mail-ayz<\/em>\/ After a night of pounding down shots, singing rousing bouts of &#8220;What Shall We Do With a Drunken Mailer?&#8221;, and sending out dozens of Jack Danmails, Bob awoke to an In Box full of hate mail, three computer viruses, and a heavy sense of tipsymailaise. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  tipsy, email, malaise <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Tipsymailaise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 06:28:00<\/em><br \/>\nSounds like a fairly nasty dis e-ase<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 11:25:00<\/em><br \/>\nTerrific Puns &#8230; Double Funs!  Can I get tipsymalise from the fumes when I open JackDanmails?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 12:46:00<\/em><br \/>\nnice one purple and now I&#8217;ve got that song n my head for the rest of the day<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=picabomama\">picabomama<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-09: 07:59:00<\/em><br \/>\nI especially like the reference Jack Danmails in the sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-10: 16:52:00<\/em><br \/>\nGreat sentence; luv the word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rogueemailephant<\/strong>:  \/<em>rowg-emial-efant<\/em>\/ The rogueemailephant finally sent one too many drunken emails which forced the company into bankruptcy. He hasn&#8217;t been herd from since, although it has been speculated that he may try to join the Societe Generelephants. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  email + rogue elephant (person who avoids others) <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Rogueemailephant:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 07:38:00<\/em><br \/>\nI assume he will packiederm his bags and go<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 10:45:00<\/em><br \/>\nYou&#8217;re very hugely creative, today! Evokes thoughts of rogue mails big as elephants! Can you e-male us ladies some to Njoy? (very red faced with longlived laughter)<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 10:46:00<\/em><br \/>\nGreat puns &#8230; through and through &#8230; you are so good at what you do!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=purpleartichokes\">purpleartichokes<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 11:44:00<\/em><br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s the sad truth about drunken elephants&#8230; http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21432722\/<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 12:52:00<\/em><br \/>\ntruly shocking story but at least they went out happy<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-09: 03:51:00<\/em><br \/>\nVery cute, almost Babaric&#8230;did you pull that one out of your trunk?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-10: 16:50:00<\/em><br \/>\nCreative and interesting!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Egret<\/strong>:  \/<em>like regret, drop the first R<\/em>\/ It was the morning after the big celebration and Dmitri woke in a puddle of his own sick. Worried that he may have defiled his prized laptop, he gingerly tapped the mouse and waited. What he found was a fully operational computer, buzzing with reply e-mails. The previous evening&#8217;s activities came into sharper focus as he scanned the subject lines in his in-box. His EGRET reached it&#8217;s zenith as he read the e-mail firing him from the very job promotion he had been celebrating. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  regret, and e-mail <em>Created by:<\/em> picabomama.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Egret:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-08: 18:12:00<\/em><br \/>\nExcellent!  Short and right to the point!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mustang\">Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-02-09: 04:10:00<\/em><br \/>\nGreat verboticism<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=hangover\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=hangover<\/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>2008-02-08: 03:25:00<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s definition was suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\"><strong>Nosila<\/strong><\/a>. Thank you Nosila. ~ James<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Tigger\">Tigger<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2008-02-08: 14:30:00<\/em><br \/>\nAhh, e-mail and alcohol&#8230;  They go together like peas and carrots, or like &#8216;lack of inhibition&#8217; and &#8216;lack of employment&#8217;,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n., The uneasiness, social discomfort, and\/or impending sense of doom which occurs when you realize that you&#8217;ve sent out a few too many emails after drinking way too much. v. intr., To be worried about your social standing after a night of heavy drinking and stupid emailing. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clicksand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[90,92,93,89,91,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}