{"id":395,"date":"2008-07-10T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2008-07-14T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T16:45:27","slug":"eblivious-yeah-i-do-have-a-lot-of-online-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Eblivious: Yeah, I do have a lot of online friends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world &#8212; like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/anda.gif\" alt=\"Yeah, I do have a lot of online friends.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eblivious<\/strong>:  \/<em>ee bliv ee us<\/em>\/ Joanie become so addicted to her computer, that she became eblivious to everyone and everything else around her. Between her e-mails, surfing the Net, playing games, shopping online, ordering food electronically, competing on her daily Verbotomy site, gambling on-line, doing surveys and writing her own blog about the life she used to lead as a human, she had no time for anything else. Not only did she let her personal hygiene and appearance lapse, she was developing rectangular eyeballs and callouses on her fingertips from clicking and dragging all day and night. What would become of her when they shut off her e-lectricity and she had to face the real world once again? Oh, Joanie, how your eblivion has cost you&#8230;   <em>Etymology:<\/em>  e &#8211; (shortcut prefix for electronic) &amp; oblivious &#8211; (unaware of or paying no attention to somebody or something; forgetting about somebody or something)<\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Eblivious:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mustang\">Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 21:11:00<\/em> <br \/>Best of the day!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-09: 03:32:00<\/em> <br \/>Another great word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Blogtied<\/strong>:  \/<em>bl\u00c3\u00b4g&#8217;tahyd<\/em>\/ Sally&#8217;s mom was getting a wee bit tired of tripping on the laptop power cord while vacuuming around her blogtied, couch potato of a daughter. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Combination of BLOG (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. &#8220;Blog&#8221; can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. + HOGTIE (To restrict the activity or free movement of) <em>Created by:<\/em> hooterbug.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Blogtied:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 13:29:00<\/em> <br \/>funny<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 15:50:00<\/em> <br \/>BLOGTIED is excellent.<br \/>\nFun to say.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mustang\">Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 21:12:00<\/em> <br \/>Wish I&#8217;d thought of it first.  <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-09: 03:30:00<\/em> <br \/>Funny &amp; fantastic<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Laptrapped<\/strong>:  \/<em>lap-trap-ed<\/em>\/ Jenny was no different from many of her friends, laptrapped and totally emersed and esnared in her virtual world, fingers poised at her keyboard ready to discuss and solve all her friends&#8217; problems. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  LAPTRAPPED &#8211; verb &#8211; from LAPTOP (a portable, battery-powered computer small enough to rest on the user&#8217;s lap) + TRAPPED (to ensnare, or capture and prevent from escaping, or getting free) <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Laptrapped:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 15:46:00<\/em> <br \/>LAPTRAPPED is good.Punchy, bold and dynamic.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 19:35:00<\/em> <br \/>For exercise she could always lap-dance!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-09: 03:31:00<\/em> <br \/>So many excellent words today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Eclusionist<\/strong>:  \/<em>E-kluh-SHUN-ist. <\/em>\/ Roxie became so immersed in a world of virtual reality that she became e-communicado; an Eclusionist (E-clusionist) living in a world of E-bay, E-food and, when speaking, doing so only in in E-speranto.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  E: prefix used to describe anything related to the internet; cyberspace &amp; CLUDERE: to shut up, enclose, close up, confine,&#8221;  from L. secludere &#8220;shut off, confine,&#8221; &#8220;to shut&#8221;.  Meaning &#8220;to remove  from public view&#8221;  Based on seclusion ; exclusionist. Cognates: Eclusion; Eclusionery, Eclusionate. <em>Created by:<\/em> OZZIEBOB.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Eclusionist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 13:31:00<\/em> <br \/>sounds a bit e-litist<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-07-08: 19:33:00<\/em> <br \/>E-xcellent word&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=anda\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=anda<\/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<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Definition Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2008-07-08: 16:04:00<\/em><br \/>\nECLUSIONIST is pretty good.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world &#8212; like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Eblivious: \/ee bliv ee us\/ Joanie become so addicted to her computer, that she became eblivious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eblivious: Yeah, I do have a lot of online friends.<\/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":[90,93,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}