Friday, May 11, 2007

Ahhh! My hair! Don't let them see me like this!

DEFINITION: To remain calm, steadfast and ploddingly systematic in the midst of a huge freaking disaster.

Ahhh! My hair! Don't let them see me like this!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Fiascool: /fee-as-cool/ The caterers were running late, the flowers were wilting, the groom was still running around naked after his stag night and I was struggling to get into my dress. It was all a horrible mess but throughout it all James, the best man, was totally fiascool. Etymology: fiasco + cool Created by: pinwheel.

Zencompetent: /rhymes with "incompetent"/ Sarah zencompetantly rounded up the 73 monkeys that had escaped from their cages; not a single one was injured, and Sarah avoided all of the flug poop. Etymology: zen (calm, state of peace) + competent (competent) Created by: benjamin.

Ablomb: /uh-BLAHM/ Alex faced his simultaneous flu, audit, firing, and computer crash with ablomb. Etymology: aplomb in the face of a bomb Created by: mplsbohemian.

Androitude: /AHN - droi - tyood/ No, it wasn't the crashing of a plane infested with snakes or the holdup of the diner that made Samuel L. Jackson's girlfriend go ballistic and frantically screaming for help... it was actually his androitude. Etymology: android (a systematic cyberhuman; we all know how freakishly organized C-3PO was) + attitude (disposition) Created by: ohwtepph.

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Be Creative,

James

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