Sniglets

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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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."

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re: SARCHASM

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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

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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…

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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.

“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
E A Poe

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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).

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UNlarge!

StoryTyler
The fun starts here!

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

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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/tv100/70s_p1.html#abc

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

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Another favorite:
“pastaplegic”–someone who has eaten so much spaghetti he can’t move.

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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? :smiley:

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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.

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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.