# I am such a disgusting slob **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726 "2000-09-19T15:04:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/21 "2000-09-20T15:18:39Z")
Thanks Tabby, mind if I call you Tabby? My family still gives me shit about falling in the cat litter box, but are a little more understanding about me falling through the ceiling. Their rationale is in the ceiling I slipped, and that could’ve happened to anyone. However, when I fell in the cat box _I had purposely grabbed hold of a live wire just to show that I could_. Expect more like that to come, since I have told my mother I will replace all the magnetic ballasts in her fluorescent fixtures in the basement with more energy efficient electronic ballasts. That means I have 10 chances to shock myself into oblivion. I’ve already bought the ballasts, now I just need to buy the right fluorescent tubes (called T-8s - much thinner than a normal tube, which is a T-12, but why am I telling you this?) Now that I’m done hijacking my own thread, I thought of one more nasty thing to do with the crap you’ll find in a slob’s house. You know all those crumbs in the bottom of the toaster? Collect those and use it for breading next time you make fried chicken! ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/22 "2000-09-20T16:34:36Z")
Damn! I just threw out my toaster crumbs this morning. (most of them were pop-tart crumbs, would have made some interesting breading.) “Tabby” is fine. In fact, I borrowed my cat’s name when I joined the board. I’m a “Kris”, and my real name is pretty ubiquitous. If you have any cobwebs on the cieling, do not remove them!! Hallowe’en is coming in a few weeks, and you will have a festive “haunted house” motif for your next big party.(READ: no chairs, much safer!) This is passive interior design at its best.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/23 "2000-09-20T16:48:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tabithina \* > **I’m a “Kris”, and my real name is pretty ubiquitous.** Ubiquitous? Admit it, you’ve just been biding your time waiting to use that word in a conversation, haven’t you? Personally, I’ve been waiting to use “defenestrate” and “verisimilitude” - preferably in the same sentence if I can manage it. So I meant to ask earlier, you have a size 11 foot? How tall are you then? Or are you like me where your feet aren’t in proportion to your body? I’m 5’10" and wear a size 12. Sometimes I need a 13, depending how the shoe’s cut. In the Air Force, my callsign was Bigfoot. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/24 "2000-09-20T17:13:20Z")
How tall am I? 5’ 5 1/2". Too short to justify such big feet! I can say with verisimilitude, that defenestration can be a good form of housecleaning for a lazy, digusting slob! (Yay! I didn’t go off topic!) Sorry I took your words and ran with them. I have always loved “defenestrate”. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/25 "2000-09-20T17:58:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tabithina \* > I can say with verisimilitude, that defenestration can be a good form of housecleaning for a lazy, digusting slob! **DAMMIT!!!** Now I have to come up with new words to show off with and I’m almost out of my Word-of-the-Day toilet paper! ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/26 "2000-09-20T18:02:16Z")
Ah, Crunchy (hard for me to call you that!)…you’re always good for a laugh. And all your slovenly habits and clumsy moments make me feel like the Goddes of Grace and Tidiness! ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/27 "2000-09-20T18:11:06Z")
Hey Crunchy Frog- Since you’ve been hijacking your own thread, can i add something? You mentioned a desire to use the word “defenestrate.” I used to have a Window to the Past out which i would throw things that reminded me of people and times and I wanted to put behind me. This was when i was in high school. All the things i tossed out landed in the yew bush far below, out of sight and out of mind forever. Now my mom was an avid gardner/yardworker. So one day, to my horror she said “Are these things yours?”, Pointing to an assortment of various objects that had disappeared out the Window to the Past. I protested that i was never to see those things again because i had tossed them out the Window to the Past. She said in a June Cleaver tone “Now, Turps, if you didn’t want these things anymore, why didn’t you just throw them away instead of making a mess in the yew bush?” “MooooooooOOOOooooOOOmm! It’s more _SYMBOLIC_ to defenestrate them!” Today’s secret word is “defenestrate”. Now we all know what happens when someone says the secret word… DING DING DING DING DING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/28 "2000-09-20T19:17:43Z")
_sigh_ Alas, Turp, I cannot use “defenestrate” any longer. The magic is gone for me now thanks to Tabby’s use of **both** my words and did it _in the same sentence_. I must now search the thesaurus and crossword puzzle dictionary for other forms of multisyllabic verbiage. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/29 "2000-09-20T19:58:05Z")
Swiddles, You sound like me. I have solved the problem by hiring a cleaning lady. I can’t imagine what she must think of me. She cleans the bathroom, does the entire weeks worth of dishes and vacuums. We tell her not to mess with the bedrooms. I don’t know what I’d do if somebody folded and put away all of my clothes. I know exactly where everything is. My favorite black tank top is still clean enough to get one more wearing and it’s wedged between the boxes I still haven’t unpacked since I moved in last January and the bookcase containing all of my hair products that belong in the bathroom and I never use anyway. I have 3 days worth of undies in a suitcase from my last trip to visit my parents that I never unpacked, and the dirty stuff is all laid neatly across the back of my chair, sheltering the clean stuff underneath it from a light dusting of cat hair. Just remember; it’s not messy, just complicated. And Tabby, I’m a big footed clutz too…5’7 size 11 1/2 to 12. I have to wear mens shoes because most women’s stores don’t carry my size. You’d think these canoes would provide stability. I guess it’s just wishful thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/30 "2000-09-20T20:59:44Z")
Crunchy Frog, {highjack} Here are a few of the words I’d like to try out, courtesy of Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words, By Josefa Heifetz Byrne. (Here’s the ISBN # on the book in case you want to check it out from your local library, and the librarian has to track it down: ISBN 0-671-49782-0) I cross-referenced all of these words at Ask [Jeeves.com](http://Jeeves.com). There are many more LOVELY words in the Byrnes book I haven’t been able to find elsewhere. Refulgent Felicific Footle Gorgonize Has there been a thread about words that we want to work into a conversation? {/highjack} ---
**Author:** ![Zilch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Zilch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zilch)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726/31 "2000-09-21T02:39:59Z")
I have about three cases worth of empty pop cans sitting around my (full) wastebasket. There is a very large pile of clothes mixed with books behind me . . . mostly Stephen King stuff so I’m kinda worried that it’ll grab me while I’m typing thi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-such-a-disgusting-slob/33726.md?page=1)