{"id":5,"date":"2007-02-28T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T19:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-03-31T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T20:31:13","slug":"yikes-spring-is-almost-here-and-this-stupid-scale-is-still-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Yikes! Spring is almost here and this stupid scale is still wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> That sinking feeling you get when you realize that you will be shedding your winter coat, before you can possibly shed the extra layer of insulation (i.e. fat) that you gained over the holidays.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/lists\/images\/jimage\/scale.png\" alt=\"Yikes! Spring is almost here and this stupid scale is still wrong.\" 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>Melancalorie<\/strong>:  \/<em>mel-on-cal-o-rie<\/em>\/ March 1st tomorrow and when I stepped on my scale this morning a severe case of melancalorie set in causing me to stop at the donut shop on the way to work to drown my guilt. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  melancholy + calorie <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Obesery<\/strong>:  \/<em>-\u00cb\u0152o\u00ca\u0160\u00cb\u02c6biz\u00c9\u0161\u00c9\u00b9i-<\/em>\/ When it gets you down, just remember that Santa&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s obesery has got to be worse than yours. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  From obese + misery <em>Created by:<\/em> ErWenn.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Titanicattack<\/strong>:  \/<em>ty-tan-ic-a-tac<\/em>\/ Tiffany had a titanicattack when she tried to teeter totter with Tony and they tumbled due to her tubbiness <em>Etymology:<\/em>  titanic (massive and likely to sink) + panic attack <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Caloregret<\/strong>:  \/<em>cal-oar-ee-gret<\/em>\/ Sue blamed her failure to lose the weight she&#8217;d gained over the holidays and resultant caloregret on those pint-sized purveyors of post-Christmas confections, the Girl Scouts. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  calorie, regret <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/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=scale\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=scale<\/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: That sinking feeling you get when you realize that you will be shedding your winter coat, before you can possibly shed the extra layer of insulation (i.e. fat) that you gained over the holidays. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Melancalorie: \/mel-on-cal-o-rie\/ March 1st tomorrow and when I stepped on my scale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yikes! Spring is almost here and this stupid scale is still wrong.<\/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\/5"}],"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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}