{"id":919,"date":"2010-04-26T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2010-04-26T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:00:05","slug":"earnacular-we-played-our-a-game-today-luckily-there-were-a-lot-of-a-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Earnacular: We played our A-Game today! Luckily there were a lot of &quot;a&quot; words."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.,<\/em> To speak in an inspirational but perhaps incomprehensible manner by stringing together a series of grunts and clich&eacute;s. <em>n.,<\/em> An inarticulate TV or radio, post-game interview, typically given by a panting, toothless, sweating, verbally-challenged, and hugely overpaid, athletic superstar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/champs.gif\" alt=\"We played our A-Game today! Luckily there were a lot of &quot;a&quot; words. \" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Earnacular<\/strong>:  \/<em>urn ak yool ar<\/em>\/ After the Stanley Cup final which saw his team lose by 25 to 0 to the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team captain was interviewed on national television.  Big Bobby NoFrontTeeth, who&#8217;s annual salary was 18 million dollars, was analytical about his team&#8217;s loss to the only team who had not won since 1967.  Speaking with sweaty hair, toothless grin, and a vocabulary in monosyllabic syntax, he was philosophical. In his earnacular, he figured their loss was due to the fact that the other team got more goals. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Earn (acquire or deserve by one&#8217;s efforts or actions;earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages) &amp; Vernacular (the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language);a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Earnacular:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=splendiction\">splendiction<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-04-22: 21:27:00<\/em> <br \/>This is a great word; can be used in other situatuions such as some overpaid superstars\/personalities who gained fame for no good reason. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-04-23: 01:06:00<\/em> <br \/>Cheers, splendiction. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Donkingcoherence<\/strong>:  \/<em>don king co HEER ens<\/em>\/ The coach&#8217;s donKingcoherence was legendary.  Some of the things he said were so incomprehensible that they were quoted on &#8220;humorous sayings&#8221; websites.  For example, &#8220;If we&#8217;re gonna win, we gotta get more points, &#8217;cause usually, when the other team wins, it&#8217;s &#8217;cause they got more points, and usually there is only one winner, so next time, we definitely gotta prob&#8217;ly try to get more points.&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Don King (flamboyant boxing promoter and motivational speaker, often noted for his unintentionally funny sayings) + incoherence <em>Created by:<\/em> karenanne.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Donkingcoherence:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=splendiction\">splendiction<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-04-22: 21:30:00<\/em> <br \/>Ha ha! Good word!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-04-23: 01:06:00<\/em> <br \/>excellent word&#8230;and that hair!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Platidude<\/strong>:  \/<em>platido\u00c5\u008dd<\/em>\/ After the team has a rough game and nobody wants to face the press, they trot out their best platidude. Phrases like **It was a learning experience**, **It*s a building year**, and **They were the better team tonight** flow from his mouth without so much as a thought. When he was finished most of the reporters still had blank note pads. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  platitude (a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful) + dude (a man; a guy) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Platidude:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-04-22: 11:39:00<\/em> <br \/>good word, dude&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Puzzeal<\/strong>:  \/<em>pez-zel<\/em>\/ Some people get butterflies in their stomachs, but Kimberly gets bullfrogs in her throat whenever she&#8217;s excited. &#8220;I was just so happy when the final season of LOST started that I couldn&#8217;t even talk during the first commercial break,&#8221; she recounted. Sadly, Kimberly is not alone and suffers alongside dozens of stars of romantic comedies. Luckily science can help! PhunPharmasuitcals introduces Puzzealia, a new medication to treat sufferers of Puzzeal. Side effects include: broken eyeballs, leprosy, and cannibalism.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Puzzle (confuse) + Zeal (excitement) <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=champs\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=champs<\/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 speak in an inspirational but perhaps incomprehensible manner by stringing together a series of grunts and clich&eacute;s. n., An inarticulate TV or radio, post-game interview, typically given by a panting, toothless, sweating, verbally-challenged, and hugely overpaid, athletic superstar. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Earnacular: \/urn ak yool ar\/ After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earnacular: We played our A-Game today! Luckily there were a lot of &quot;a&quot; words.<\/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\/919"}],"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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}