{"id":574,"date":"2009-03-11T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2009-03-11T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:00:01","slug":"twingineering-my-nose-hairs-are-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Twingineering: My nose hairs are scary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A tool which has been re-purposed and is now being used (perhaps unsafely) to perform a completely different function. <em>v.<\/em> To use a tool for a different purpose than for which it was originally designed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/trim.gif\" alt=\"My nose hairs are scary!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twingineering<\/strong>:  \/<em>-TWNJNRNK-<\/em>\/ Carol&#8217;s use of the wiffleball bat, a feral cat, and 22 binder clips in her perverse twingineering experiment resulted in the summoning of no less than three ambulances to attend to the neighbor who was mistaken for a burglar. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  twin + engineering (as if you hadn&#8217;t already figured that out&#8230;) <em>Created by:<\/em> Banky.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Twingineering:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-03-09: 13:53:00<\/em> <br \/>terrific<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-03-09: 14:15:00<\/em> <br \/>got a big laugh from the things you chose to twingineer.  Excellent word!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=kateinkorea\">kateinkorea<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-03-09: 18:42:00<\/em> <br \/>Good word.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-03-09: 22:55:00<\/em> <br \/>I twin-ge with laughter!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Megatool<\/strong>:  \/<em>meg\u00c9\u2122to\u00c5\u008dl<\/em>\/ Gene believes in the megatool approach to life. If a task requires the use of a tool bigger is always better. He has a military surplus flame thrower that he uses to start his charcoal grill. You have a rusty bolt? If his jaws-of-life can&#8217;t loosen it, they can lop it off so you can replace it. His wife drew the line when he started talking about a pneumatic hammer fly swatter. She has 911 on speed-dial. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  mega (very large; huge) + tool (a device or implement, esp. one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Megatool:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=otherguy\">otherguy<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-03-09: 06:43:00<\/em> <br \/>Perhaps Gene is a megatool for Black &amp; Decker.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mchammer<\/strong>:  \/<em>mik &#8211; ham &#8211; mer <\/em>\/ Donald decided to mchammer his dog house together with his mchammer.  It was a new tool that he created using a baseball bat, a visegrip and a socket wrench&#8230;.Instead of hitting the nail on the head, he destroyed the entire dog house with his &#8220;hammer time&#8221;&#8230;  Oh well, Donald thought as he put down the bat&#8230;.&#8221;can&#8217;t touch this&#8221; as a hammer again&#8230;.must take up baseball. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  hammer, McDonalds, M C Hammer&#8230;. <em>Created by:<\/em> rombus.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Mchammer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-03-09: 14:13:00<\/em> <br \/>Really hammered this one!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Toastercoaster<\/strong>:  \/<em>toe-ster-coe-ster<\/em>\/ The toastercoaster is a wonderful invention for making toast and keeping your hot chocolate warm. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  toaster + coaster <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=trim\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=trim<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n. A tool which has been re-purposed and is now being used (perhaps unsafely) to perform a completely different function. v. To use a tool for a different purpose than for which it was originally designed. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Twingineering: \/-TWNJNRNK-\/ Carol&#8217;s use of the wiffleball bat, a feral &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twingineering: My nose hairs are scary!<\/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":[90,93,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}