SNIGLETS No. 1…..
A Â SNIGLETÂ (snig’ lit) is any word that doesn’t appear in the dictionary, but should…… Â I was going through my tons of stuff and found the book “Sniglets” written by Rich Hall, who used to be on the HBO series, “NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS”….. Â I thought, since no one else is Posting (Hint, Hint, Nudge, Nudge), I would start Posting a few of them each week, just for the fun of it….. Â So, enjoy, the 1st installment of “Sniglets”……
MAGNOCARTICÂ (mag no kar’ tik) Â n. Any automobile that, when left unattended, attracts shopping carts…..
HOZONEÂ (ho’ zohn) Â n. Â the place where one sock in every laundry load disappears to…..
RIGNITIONÂ (rig ni’ shun) Â n. Â The embarrassing action of trying to start one’s car with the engine already running….
FLOPCORNÂ (flop’ Korn) Â n. Â The unpopped kernels at the bottom of the cooker….
January 23rd, 2014 at 4:26 pm
A great educational addition to the blog.
I do believe there is already a name for unpopped kernels at the bottom of the cooker. The ones that chip teeth and loosen fillings…………..”grannies”.
January 23rd, 2014 at 5:26 pm
I always liked “Elacceleration” – the mistaken notion that repeatedly pressing the elevator button will make it come faster.
January 23rd, 2014 at 5:43 pm
If there’s anything we need more of on this Blog is Education!….. Right, Anon?….. Here’s TTop’s right out of the book – ELECELLERATION (el a cel er ay’ shun) n. The mistaken notion that the more you press an elevator button the faster it will arrive….. Good one, TTop…..
January 25th, 2014 at 3:11 pm
We need to culture up……….CULTURIZATION.
ELECELLERATION……..that must be very similar to hammering the button at crosswalks. Must be a name for that too.
January 25th, 2014 at 7:50 pm
THERE’S nothing in the book that even remotely addresses Culture….. This is the Bible of Un-Culturization!….. I guess the act of hammering on a crosswalk button would be called CROSS ELECELLERATION……