Sniglets

Remember these? Was it Rich Hall who came up with these humor books for words that should exist:Spood, the wooden thing you sometimes get to eat ice cream. I've lost my sniglet book, but I did come up wiyh one:
Passhole, defined as the guy who uses all four lanes and perhaps the shoulder to weave through.Gets to work 5 minutes faster than you.

What's the opposite of to enlarge?Reduce doesn't cover all uses.We need a word..

Anyway, list away...

Cheedles- The stuff on you fingers after you eat a cheese flavored corn chip. Doritos, cheetos, etc.

I love sniglets. Thanks for starting this thread.

Aquadextrous - the ability to turn off a bathtub faucet with your toes.

Napjerk: That strange feeling of falling that you get sometimes right as you're falling asleep.

Kawashock: The feeling you get when you pull up to the last available parking space only to find a motorcycle is parked there.

Foz -- the black crusty buildup under the cap of the ketchup bottle. I remember this from one of the actual books and was using it one day and my husband replied "Ex-CUSE ME?!?!?!" He's sniglet impaired, apparently.

What is voguevixen a sniglet for?
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Some original Rich Hall sniglets:
backspackle- on bicyclists' backs
buttnick- on an ashtray
dognut- large (5sided?)nut on fire hydrant
fictate- talk to TV characters
houndwinding- dog makes circles
manillium- the length of time the metal clasp lasts
pigslice-last slice of pizza
rubbage-dead tires on road

I modified this one:
washaglyph- symbols on garment about care

CHECKUARY: the period of time at the beginning of the year where you keep writing last year's date on your checks.
PUPKUSS: dog slobber on a car window

Halaska - The little corner of the map with the Hawaii and Alaska maps.

Sorry, this is the only one that I can remember.

Can we make up our own?

ningles: That nice tingly feeling you get when listening to a great piece of music or if you are similarly inspired.

this one was actually first from George Carlin

Borburigmy (bore-bur-IG-me) - the language your stomach uses to talk to you.

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

(My favorite)

Lactomangulation: the act of trying to open a cardboard milk carton and screwing it up so badly that you give up and resort to opening the "illegal" side of the carton.

Ignosecond: that moment in which you realize you've left the keys in the ignition, but too late to stop your hand from slamming the car door.

Sidewaltz: that little shuffle-dance that 2 people do when coming from opposite directions on a sidewalk. He had another sniglet for this one, shufflesomething...can't remember it now.

Dreckfast: the meal eaten at 4 a. m. after a night of heavy drinking, usually at Waffle House or a similar establishment.

Eastroturf: The fake grass in Easter baskets.
Cubelo: The last ice cube left by the lazy person, who is too lazy to refill the tray.
P-spot: spot above urinal you have to stare at if someone is peeing in the next urinal

greyblind -- use to describe a person who sees things only in black and white

snackmosphere -- that layer of compressed air in every potato chip bag

I remember the little booklet, but I only remember a few "deFUNitions" yuk yuk

CHARP: that green/black burnt illegitimate potato chip in the bag (I never ate those)

HOZONE: the place where your socks disappear to in the dryer (for the longest time I DID NOT get this, until we learned "ozone" for vocab. D-U-H

SLOOPAGE: Stuff that falls out of your sandwich while you're eating it

SPORK: the all-purpose utensil you get in the cafeteria

I can't remember the term, but it meant the last few cheerios that cling to the side of the bowl.....hmmmm, anyone remember?

also, my sis and I made up the insult "buttch" a combo of butt & bitch. Hey we were like, 7 and 10 years old. It was heavy disrespect.

Vol 2 had one cheerio term:cheeriomagnetization, the tendency for the last 4 or 5 cheerios to stick together for survival.

Needed: term for peopl who drive diagonally across parking lots. And a term for writing a check that would bounce, then making a deposit the next day to cover it.

Ivana: you came up with something food related in a topic that I can't find. Do you remember which topic?

Sunbear, yah it was at the end of the Turkey TV Nickelodeon thing. I really couldn't think of an answer, just that my cousins in Croatia lament the fact that they don't have chocolate chip cookies over there. SO whenever one of us goes we have to smuggle in a few tubes of Pillsbury dough in our suitcases.
:-))))

Right.Smuggle cookies.
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Proposed terms for above:
leapcheck: the check that will bounce, unless you bouncept it with a deposit
diagozoom: the driving across parking lots diagonally

The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners:

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of obtaining sex.

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

Tatyr: A lecherous Mr. Potato Head.

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

Burglesque: A poorly planned break-in. (See: Watergate)

Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like a serious bummer.

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid & an asshole."

re: SARCHASM

Honestly, this is the first and last time in my life I will say this: LOL!

I'm not sure where I heard it, but asugos are the things you put by the stairs that need to go up, or down.

I sure do miss Sniglets! Here's a couple:

Elacceleration - The act of repeatedly pushing elevator buttons in the hopes that this will make it arrive more quickly.

Phonesia - The act of placing a phone call then forgetting who you have called.

Negamegabuck Line - The line you draw on a check after writing out the "word" amount in the hopes that no one will add extra dollar amounts illegally!

Ecnalubma - The feeling that you are being followed by an ambulance.

bondsnorkling - to hold your breath while you watch a tv or movie character swim under water (I still do this).

doork - someone who misjudges the push/pull properties of a glass door and walks into it, to the amusement of the people in the room beyond the door.

burgatory - where all the unused burgers go when McDonald's closes for the night.

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"Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is enlightenment." - Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher

Sorry about this but, Azraek, what does LOL mean?

LOL = Laugh/Laughs/Laughing Out Loud

For more acronyms, check out http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/acronyms.html . There's also an acronym-listing thread in, I believe, the About this Message Board forum, but I'm too lazy to look up the link.

BOVILEXIA: the urge to yell "Moo!" at cows as you drive past a farm

AEROBICREEP: someone who keeps moving into your space during an aerobics class

CREDIDIOTS: people who stay in the movie theatre and watch every single one of the ending credits

TILE COMET: a piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe

I just heard a good (albeit unofficial) one on the radio!
It was on the traffic report, and they said there was a car on fire in the left lane, a "car-b-q"


i laffed..

The ones I remember most from Rich Hall are -
GARPACTION: the act of stomping on a full garbage bag to get more trash in.
EXCELEVATION: the act of continually pressing the elevator button to make it arrive faster.

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"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
E A Poe

Bill Cosby said, in "I Started Out as a Child," that the noise an empty stomach makes is "eeareurps" (approximate spelling; pronounced ee-AIR-ee-urps).
I liked "agonosis"--the syndrome of turning in on "Wide World of Sports" just to watch the skier rack himself (the footage of the skier who slid off the ski jump on his way down and hit an upright or "finial" on top of a booth or other structure).

What's the opposite of to enlarge/

UNlarge!


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StoryTyler
The fun starts here!

I always thought a good fake word would be ENDODUS. It's the opposite of exodus.

I liked "agonosis"--the syndrome of turning in on "Wide World of Sports" just to watch the skier rack himself (the footage of the skier who slid off the ski jump on his way down and hit an upright or "finial" on top of a booth or other structure).

The agony of defeat! Oh yeah, Dougie that was somethin'. That dude's name was Binko Bogataj (sp?) and he while he took a healthy drubbing in that spill, he wasn't nearly as hurt as you'd think he was. Man, that's a name from the dark recesses of my brain. I'm gonna do some web surfin' and see if I can find out what he's up to now.

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Turns out I spelled his first name wrong, but got the last one right. A cursory web search got me this:

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/ew/fab400/...0s_p1.html#abc

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Extracelilscerffing! spending too much time on this site! I'm outta here! Good night!

[dougie_monty]

Another favorite:
"pastaplegic"--someone who has eaten so much spaghetti he can't move.

[omniscientnot]

On a slightly different tangent, this thread has reminded me of a booklet I bought many many years ago entitled "The Meaning of Liff" -- yes, Liff --, which gives names to every-day occurrences and phenomena. A sample:

Burton Coggles
A bunch of keys found in a drawer whose purpose has long been forgotten, and which therefore can now be used only for dropping down people's backs as a cure for nose-bleeds.

Goole
The puddle on the bar in which the barman puts your change.

Iping
The increasingly anxious shifting from leg to leg you go through when you are desperate to go to the lavatory and the person you are talking to keeps on remembering a few things he wants to mention.

Nad
Measure defined as the distance between a driver's outstretched fingertips and the ticket machine in an automatic car park. 1 nad = 18.4 cm

Simprim
The little movement of false modesty by which a girl with a cavernous visible cleavage pulls her skirt down over her knees.

Wimbledon
The last drop which, no matter how hard you shake it, always goes down your trouser leg.


Did I mention the authors were British?

[thirdwarning]

The only one I remember is carperpetuation-when the vacuum fails to suck up something on the rug, even after several tries, so you pick it up to see what it is--and then you put it back down to give the vacuum another shot at it.

[TheNerd]

I like these:

Puzz: the cardboard dust/fuzz in a puzzle box.

Wimbledown: the fuzz on a tennis ball.

Confido: to tell your dog your problems.

[Byzantine]

I found my Sniglets book! Wow, guess I just never get rid of my books!

Elbonics - the actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.

Expressholes - people who try to sneak more than the "eight items or less" into the express checkout line.

Spagmumps - any of the millions of styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items (I've always called them Spafoops)

Yinkel - a person (man?) who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice.

Let me know if I can find one for anyone out there.


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You can count the number of apples in one tree but never the number of trees in one apple.

[sunbear]

We always called the styrofoam bits "nerdlies". Don't know who came up with it.