IP Fictionarium

08 January 2007

NWoTD - Camerass

Camerass - (pronounced camer-ass) someone who behaves like an asshole just to get "the shot". The photographer at my brother's wedding a number of years ago was a camerass, he elbowed me in the stomach more than once and I was the best friggin' man.

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22 December 2006

NWoTD - Shrell

I try to get through Christmas without losing my shit because of the crass commercialism of the holiday. I try to ignore it as best I can. But I generally get my lunch at the Safeway near my work and there's a Salvation Army "donation" guy that stands by the door jangling his bell. He does it really low until someone walks in or out of the store and then he makes it jangle loud and shrill. And he always gives me the hairy eyeball and a sarcastic "Have a nice day" as I walk by him without throwing my change into his bucket.

I have my reasons for not donating my change. The first is that I save all of my change, it goes into a jar and we use it for family stuff that we might not otherwise be able to afford. Change adds up, a year or so can net several hundred bucks.

The second reason is that the Salvation Army is a religious organization at its core. Part of their central philosophy is to spread their gospel. Sorry but I cannot and will not support religious organizations. One nice thing about the calendar changing over to 2007 is that he'll be gone when I go back to work.

Anyway, all of that brings me to today's new word of the day....

Shrell - a shrill bell, not unlike the bell the Salvation Army guy rings.

Tags: shrell, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

04 December 2006

NWoTD - Cordespondence

Today's new word came about from a mispelling but it really works quite well.

cordespondence - despondent correspondence, i.e. sad letters sent home from someone in a tough situation without much hope. An alternate spelling would be cordespondence but I think its harder to parse out that way.

Tags: cordespondence, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

02 December 2006

NWoTD - Immutiny

Inspired from this season of Survivor, today's new word is....

immutiny - immune from mutiny.

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28 November 2006

NWoTD - Jesuffocation

Jesuffocation - suffocating on Jesus or the Jesusification of the nation during the yule.

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27 November 2006

NWoTD - Minace

Today's new word is...

Minace - a minimal menace. Maybe more like an annoyance.

Tags: minace, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

14 November 2006

NWoTD - Spattern

One of the other new words I came up with yesterday. With a nod to the original dirty mushroom, this one's a bit on the gross side.

Spattern - the unique pattern of spray your diarrhea makes in the bowl.

Tags: spattern, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

NWoTD - Toolio

I came up with this one with a specific person in mind but decorum prevents me from going any further than that this is a perfect description for him.

Toolio - someone who thinks they are supercool but they're really a supertool.

Which, of course, leads to another related term...

Foolio - someone who thinks they are supercool but they're really a superfool.

Tags: toolio, foolio, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

10 November 2006

NWoTD - Emaul

Today's word is a pretty simple one, a switch of a letter and, bam, the original word's definition extends in a whole new space.

Emaul - assault by email. Using email to attack and hurt someone else. I'm still working on the IM and SMS version of this because of the recent story about the guy who terrorized some young teen girls via IM.

Tags: emaul, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

07 November 2006

NWoTD - Introllectual

Ahh, don't you love the smell of a brand new word? No? I guess its just me then. Anyway, here's another new word to describe a certain type of online jerko.

Introllectual - someone who's obviously got some brains but only uses them to abuse, derail and otherwise upset an online community.

Tags: introllectual, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

06 November 2006

NWoTD - Scumarketing

Inspired by my most disliked retail giant, Wal-Mart and their scummy marketing tactic of getting kids to spam their parents with expensive crap from Wal-Mart for Christmas.

Scumarketing - scummy marketing, underhanded marketing techniques that leave you feeling like there is a dirty film over you. Unethical and unnecessary marketing that should be met with nothing but scorn and boycotts.

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NWoTD - Carriot

Today's new word has almost no use in the real world but it makes me laugh anyway.

Carriot - a riot over carrots.

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31 October 2006

NWoTD - Slimformation

Today's new word is inspired by the near never-ending drivel spewing forth from Tony Snow's fetid maw. And so today's new word is....

Slimformation - passing on just enough information to get by but not really enough to know anything of value.

And also,

Mislimformation - passing on just enough bad information to be plausibly deniable. They've stopped even trying to do this since they are just out and out lying (see Tony Snow's recent lies about George Bush never having said we should "Stay the course" in Iraq despite the literally hundreds of instances it can be found online).

I suppose there might also be a version called slimeformation but that gets a little hard to parse.

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06 October 2006

NWoTD - Columnuts

Columnuts - insane columnists like Nick Coleman who drives Rhodes crazy with his bad journalism.

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