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Wanted Words
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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Jan-12-2007 02:08
Curious if this will work...no big if not. But let's see...
A few years ago there was this thing on public radio in Canada, where listeners would send in their ideas to give a proper name to a thing that, while clearly widespread, had no name as yet.
Eg - the thing you slap down on a grocery check out line to separate your groceries from those of the person in line before/after you?
= condimental divide
the mysterious flabby tissue on the underside of your tricep muscle/upper arm?
= armajello
that guy who puts shorts on three weeks before anyone else in the middle of march?
=Panticipation
Sleuthies, I invite you to post either a perfect term for an un-named phenomena, or a phenomena that needs a name.
I'll throw out a couple of the latter:
What is the term for the feeling of sleuthing with 2 FAs?
What is the term for watching a cell phone conversation between two people who are less than fifty yards away from one another?
What is the term for finding money in an article of clothing you haven't worn in a long time?
What is the term for a case you feel pretty sure you're gonna have to quit the minute you check the crime scene when on an Arch Villain hunt?
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nonaddict2
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Jan-12-2007 02:47
the term for finding money in an article of clothing you haven't worn in a long time
= forgotten money that makes you that much more rich than before
What is the term for the feeling of having to pay shady?
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Farm A Sea
Old Shoe
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Jan-12-2007 04:50
What is the term for a case you feel pretty sure you're gonna have to quit the minute you check the crime scene when on an Arch Villain hunt?
Quitarchertized
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Sara Lou
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Jan-12-2007 07:06
What is the term for watching a cell phone conversation between two people who are less than fifty yards away from one another?
Celloyuerism.
What is the term for finding money in an article of clothing you haven't worn in a long time?
Buried treasure. (My clothes end up on the floor, so...)
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Jan-12-2007 07:22
the term for finding money in an article of clothing you haven't worn in a long time?
Depends where you are - dollaricious? euro-phoric?
If you're watching a phone conversation between two people less than fifty yards apart, I'd say you were watching phonies...
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BadAss
Charioteer
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Jan-12-2007 09:41
When you see someone and you're pretty sure you remember him and say "hi" only to find out he's a total stranger.
A decognition.
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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Jan-13-2007 02:29
k, how about running into someone who you KNOW you have met before when you're with a friend and not being able to introduce them properly because you don't know their name?
Anonyspeak?
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BadAss
Charioteer
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Jan-13-2007 08:36
A christmas tree decorated with thin potato slices that are baked golden brown and crunchy?
A crispmas tree....
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BadAss
Charioteer
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Jan-13-2007 09:01
A hermaphrodite mollusk......
Does who want to know can always PM me........
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BadAss
Charioteer
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Jan-13-2007 09:07
Those
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Jan-15-2007 20:49
I had a few of these come through my email recently:
TESTICULATING.
Waving your arms around and talking bollocks
ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
The fine art of whacking the hell out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
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