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Thursday, November 23, 2006

More Than Words

I couldn't sleep, so I spent too much time reading at www.WordSpy.com. I found these words/phrases that the author has posted. I didn't write any of them. I just found them funny!!

squirrel gardening, adj.
The accidental "gardening" that occurs when squirrels transfer seeds and bulbs from one one part of a garden to another, or even between gardens.

copyrighteous, adj.
Relating to a feeling of moral superiority based on one's responsible copyright views and actions.
mental hairball, noun
A word or phrase coughed up at random.
bad tongue day, noun
A day in which a person frequently mispronounces words and stumbles over sentences.

pound-of-cure mode, noun
Troubleshooting a problem that would have been less severe if you had taken steps to prevent it (i.e., if you'd been in ounce-of-prevention mode).

spontaneous program combustion, noun
When an application, which has been running normally for hours and in the absence of any other unusual phenomena, suddenly crashes.

pro-detail, adjective
Euphemism used to put a more positive spin on those people who would otherwise be described as fastidious and anal.

name rackognition, noun
The process of racking your brain in an attempt to recall the name of a person whose name you used to know but have since forgotten.

2 Comments:

  • At 7:46 AM, Blogger Mike Morton said…

    Now I can have a anem to go with some of my... mishaps of forgetfullness and whatever during the day. Need to go check that out.

     
  • At 10:07 AM, Blogger Shane Coffman said…

    Alice has a lot of mental hairballs.

    Zorro has a lot of physical hairballs.

     

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