{"id":726,"date":"2009-08-31T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2009-08-31T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:00:05","slug":"disintokration-thank-goodness-these-things-are-biodegradable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Disintokration: Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>  A &#8220;natural process&#8221; which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. <em>v.<\/em> To clean up someone else&#8217;s butts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/butts.gif\" alt=\"Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disintokration<\/strong>:  \/<em>disint\u00c5\u008dkr\u00c4\u0081sh\u00c9\u2122n<\/em>\/ Just about every car sold in America is equipped with an ash tray. Many go unused because smokers believe in disintokration, that magic process by which their butts, wrappers and even packaging go up in smoke just like the cigs themselves. A quick flick of the wrist and all responsibility is done.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  disintegration (the process of coming to pieces) + toke (the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Disintokration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-08-27: 15:21:00<\/em> <br \/>Sadly, too true! Good Word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Confagation<\/strong>:  \/<em>kon fag ay shun<\/em>\/ When Virginia Slims started dating the Marlborough Man (Smoky to his friends), she worried not what would happen after they butted out their emberous reamains. She believed that the natural process of confagation would remove the reminders of their nicotine assignations. She was partly right, as often there would be a fire after they left the area and the coffin nails smouldered and flared up.   <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Conflagration (a very intense and uncontrolled fire) &amp; Fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking) <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buttification<\/strong>:  \/<em>but-ti-fi-ca-tion<\/em>\/ Because she loved the park, Norma engaged in buttification every weekend so that visitors, especially the children, wouldn&#8217;t have to put up with the sights and smells of tobacco waste. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  beautification: to make or become beautiful + butt: the discarded end of a cigarette. <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cigarbage<\/strong>:  \/<em>see-gar-bage<\/em>\/ Jonathan inhaled deeply, while his girlfriend complained (again) about the cigarbage on their living floor. He dropped his cigarette to the floor and carefully stubbed it out. Then he turned to her letting out a puff of smoke, and  said, &#8220;What garbage? I don&#8217;t see garbage.&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  cigar + garbage <em>Created by:<\/em> jrogan.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=butts\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=butts<\/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 &#8220;natural process&#8221; which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else&#8217;s butts. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Disintokration: \/disint\u00c5\u008dkr\u00c4\u0081sh\u00c9\u2122n\/ Just about every car sold in America is equipped with an ash tray. Many go unused because smokers believe in disintokration, that magic process by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disintokration: Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!<\/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\/726"}],"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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}