{"id":802,"date":"2009-11-25T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2009-11-25T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T17:00:04","slug":"mirrorvelous-hey-youre-copying-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Mirrorvelous: Hey, you&#8217;re copying me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it&#8217;s so wonderful that everyone should have one. <em>n.<\/em> An open source clone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/doctorow.gif\" alt=\"Hey, you're copying me!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mirrorvelous<\/strong>:  \/<em>meer &#8211; or &#8211; vel &#8211; us<\/em>\/ The copy of a copy was so mirrorvelous that Hal kept making them; much to the annoyance of everyone else.  If I get another one for Christmas this year, I will now own 13 of them. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  mirror, marvelous <em>Created by:<\/em> mweinmann.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Mirrorvelous:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-11-23: 19:22:00<\/em> <br \/>marvy word<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Chainlitter<\/strong>:  \/<em><\/em>\/ Edna was known for chainlittering, with her indiscriminate bulk forwarding of all trivial emails.   <em>Etymology:<\/em><br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> theCountess.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Chainlitter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-11-23: 17:55:00<\/em> <br \/>nice<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-11-24: 01:13:00<\/em> <br \/>good one<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Psychiclone<\/strong>:  \/<em>sy kik klone<\/em>\/ Roger had gotten his grant to further study the likelihood of mass-cloning an individual. It had taken lots of persuasion and hard work on his part to convince the powers that be that this could be a worthwhile pursuit. He had sold them with ideas like, &#8220;Imagine being able to psychiclone the Queen or The President or any other famous leader so that governments remained stable and economies did not suffer through misfortunate events&#8221;. They had bought it and now only he knew how to achieve this miracle. He got busy and psychicloned one hundred new clones.  The only trouble was that the one he psychicloned was himself and then he immediately disappeared, so that the authorities never knew which one to arrest&#8230;Bring on the clones! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Psychic (pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws;affecting or influenced by the human mind) &amp; Psyche (that which is responsible for one&#8217;s thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason) &amp; Clone (an unauthorized copy or imitation;make multiple identical copies of) &amp; Sounds like Cyclone (a violent rotating windstorm)<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Repligrating<\/strong>:  \/<em>REP lih grate ing<\/em>\/ The mass e-mails in my mailbox each day are really repligrating on my nerves.  Some of them say, &#8220;Hello, Friend&#8221; or &#8220;Here&#8217;s good luck to pass on,&#8221; and demand that I cut-and-paste portions and send them to 20 friends.  I must have seen some of the same ones 10 or 15 times already.  Judging from the number of times I get them and DON&#8217;T forward them on, I guess I will soon suffer grave misfortune AND have no friends. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  replicate + grating (annoying, irritating) <em>Created by:<\/em> karenanne.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=doctorow\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=doctorow<\/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 copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it&#8217;s so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Mirrorvelous: \/meer &#8211; or &#8211; vel &#8211; us\/ The copy of a copy was so mirrorvelous that Hal kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mirrorvelous: Hey, you&#8217;re copying 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":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}