{"id":912,"date":"2010-04-16T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:00:06","slug":"shameleon-i-am-king-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Shameleon: I am King Kong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To identify so strongly with character from a book, show, or urban legend, that you become convinced that the story is actually about you. <em>n.,<\/em> A person who believes they are a fictional character in wonderfully tragic and heroic story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/kong.gif\" alt=\"I am King Kong!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shameleon<\/strong>:  \/<em>sham\u00c4\u201cly\u00c9\u2122n<\/em>\/ Joey is a shameleon. When he goes to a movie or play, he often leaves with the feeling that he is somehow connected to the hero and can do much of what was depicted. He has to be very careful choosing what he goes to see. Bond movies? Trouble! Dukes of Hazard? Wrecked his car! His pet gecko may be in trouble if he goes to see **How to train your dragon**. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  sham (a thing that is not what it is purported to be) + chameleon (a small slow-moving Old World lizard with a prehensile tail, long extensible tongue, protruding eyes that rotate independently, and a highly developed ability to change color) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Shameleon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-04-16: 23:19:00<\/em> <br \/>sHAMELESS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Spydentifies<\/strong>:  \/<em>spy dent if fyez<\/em>\/ Under the clever disguise of a humble sales associate at Home Depot, Sean Moore spydentifies better with his hero, James Bond. Ever vigilant, his imagination in overdrive, he sees KGB agents lurking in Paints&#8230;why do they really need fourteen gallons of red paint? Personally Sean prefers his paint shaken, not stirred. That shifty foreign character over in Electrical, is he really buying a new doorbell or parts to build a dirty bomb? And that glamorous femme fatale in Tools&#8230;she probably has gotten her marksman accreditation with nail guns and power tools. Sean would like to nail her.  And when he goes into the Outdoors Dept., he likes to practise his fencing moves. Touche! Sean stays in top form until the day he will get the call to serve his country and save the world&#8230;in the meantime, someone needs mousetraps in aisle 3!    <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Spy (a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors;a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people;secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage) &amp; Identifies ( recognizes as being; establishes the identity of someone or something;considers (oneself) as similar to somebody else)   <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Spydentifies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=artr\">artr<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-04-14: 12:17:00<\/em> <br \/>Some idiot always needs mousetraps. Cute word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mythallaboutme<\/strong>:  \/<em>myth-all-a-bout-me<\/em>\/ Sue loved to read stories of mythallaboutme. In her mind she became the heroine, the ingenue, who had to endure horrible 3 headed beasts and one-eyed giants.  They had such wonderful, easy lives and really nice hair. These beautiful women never had to deal with real horrible beasts like Larry, the guy in marketing and her sister who always complained about her boyfriend.  She just knew that if she waited long enough some handsome son of a god would come and take her off to a far away land where food was prepared by the chef gods and you didn&#8217;t ever have to wash the dishes. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  myth: a fictional story of supernatural beings or heroes that serve to explain the natural world, psychology or customs of a socety + mythology: a body of myths associated with an event, person or institution + all + about + me <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regolate<\/strong>:  \/<em>R&#8217;ego-late<\/em>\/ Kimberly could regolate with many literary heroes. &#8220;I know this book is about me&#8221; she would say. Zinnia overheard her say this and asked: &#8220;What book is that?&#8221; Kimberly&#8217;s answer: Twilight. Zinnia was not surprised, as Kimberly had previously regonized herself in the writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Judy Blume and Moses.   <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Relate (to identify with) + Ego (selfish voice inside your head) <em>Created by:<\/em> thegoatisbad.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=kong\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=kong<\/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 identify so strongly with character from a book, show, or urban legend, that you become convinced that the story is actually about you. n., A person who believes they are a fictional character in wonderfully tragic and heroic story. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Shameleon: \/sham\u00c4\u201cly\u00c9\u2122n\/ Joey is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shameleon: I am King Kong!<\/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\/912"}],"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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}