{"id":711,"date":"2009-08-10T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2009-08-10T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:00:08","slug":"emptyme-i-am-in-tune-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"Emptyme: I am in tune with me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To turn up the volume on your ipod and zone out all exterior noise, chatter, distractions, and focus on what&#8217;s really important &#8211; your own feelings! <em>n.<\/em> A person who is humming their own tune, and ignoring everything else.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/ipod.gif\" alt=\"I am in tune with me.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emptyme<\/strong>:  \/<em>empty-me<\/em>\/ Joy would plug into her Emptyme Player to tune out everything but what she wanted to hear.  She was so shallow that, even when she wrecked her dad&#8217;s new car with her boyfriend in it, the paramedics found her sitting on the curb singing along to &#8220;Oops I did it again&#8221; by Brittany Spears while her boyfriend moaned in pain in the front seat. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  empty+me &#8212; wordplay on MP3 player <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Emptyme:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-08-07: 22:22:00<\/em> <br \/>Emptymology is perfect!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Myopera<\/strong>:  \/<em>My-op-er-ah<\/em>\/ Maria&#8217;s myopera did not mean she needed to wear her headphones ALL the time, no, it was just whenever she was awake. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Rythmic fusion of 1) Myopia &#8211; condition commonly referred to as shortsightedness (which is quite a long word) and 2)Opera &#8211; musical which is very small (or far away) and requires the audience to use binoculars in order to see the players on the stage. <em>Created by:<\/em> scrabbelicious.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Myopera:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=artr\">artr<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-08-06: 11:11:00<\/em> <br \/>Based on myopia? <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-08-07: 22:29:00<\/em> <br \/>Diva-licious word!!! Does this mean the Presbyopera means when you sing in a Protestant Church???<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=scrabbelicious\">scrabbelicious<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-08-08: 09:43:00<\/em> <br \/>Presbyopera, some kinda weird Elvis convention, probably would&#8217;ve could&#8217;ve should&#8217;ve been the subject of a Fr Ted Christmas special.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Oblivego<\/strong>:  \/<em>oh bliv eego<\/em>\/ Melody had shortened her name to MeMe and it suited her well.  She could not pass a window or mirror without gazing adoringly at herself. It was always all about her. Until that day when she strapped on her i-pod and went running, dancing down the busy street oblivego to all else around her.  Too bad the loud rendition of &#8220;I did it my way&#8221; prevented her from hearing that Greyhound Bus heading her way&#8230;oops! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Oblivious (Unaware of anything else;forgetful;unmindful)&amp; Ego (an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others;your consciousness of your own identity;vanity;self-importance)<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ituned<\/strong>:  \/<em>\u00c4\u00abto\u00c5\u008dnd<\/em>\/ Joyce is completely iTuned. If anything does not effect her directly or is not about her, she isn\\&#8217;t interested. If any of her few friends try to tell her about their lives, she just iTunes them out. She refuses to use FaceBook because postings by others show up there and wastes her time. She preferrs to Tweet even though she has trouble understanding why more people haven&#8217;t subscribed to her account. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  I (pronoun: first person singular) + tuned (adjust a receiver circuit such as a radio or television to the frequency of the required signal) + itunes (iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ipod\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ipod<\/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: v. To turn up the volume on your ipod and zone out all exterior noise, chatter, distractions, and focus on what&#8217;s really important &#8211; your own feelings! n. A person who is humming their own tune, and ignoring everything else. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Emptyme: \/empty-me\/ Joy would plug into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emptyme: I am in tune with me.<\/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\/711"}],"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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}