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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The Fictionary

The fictionary is a collection of terms coined by my people, it is forever growing. The list started during the dying dot com days and the only word I can recall is Cleverage. Feel free to use these words in your daily life, but we retain ownership over the the terms and have sole authority over the definitions.


Asparipiss: noun, foul smelling urine produced after eating asparagus (May, 2005 – E. B.)

Cleverage: verb, creative and unique use of a tool or resource for a new purpose. “I really thought it was interesting that my manager was able to cleverage the office supply budget to buy himself a new car.” (November, 1999 – P. H, S. M (snottybananafanny), T. P)

Confercation: noun, the conference located at a highly desirable location, such as Las Vegas or Hawaii thus enabling the employee to maximize conference downtime for personal enjoyment. (June, 2005 – T. P.)

Confusement: verb, the act of being puzzled. “The rules were unclear so you can understand my confusement.” (2005– A. B)

Narcophelia: noun, a sexual disorder in which an individual is strangely attracted to a person who is asleep. (2003 – T. P.)

Necrolepsy: noun, a physical disorder that causes the inflicted to fall asleep unexpectedly while having intimate relations with dead people. (2004 – T. P.)

Stadistics: noun, using numbers and figures to make the topic upon which you are reporting appear worse than it actually is, also the over use of statistics to prove your point, i.e. 100% of people surveyed stated that 90% of statistics were at least 75% reliable (+/- 5%). (2005 – T. P.)

Yalk: verb, talking while simultaneously yawning (2003 – A & E B)

2 comments:

MWR said...

I'm going to claim "nonorail."

Nonorail: noun, an elevated mass-transit system that, ultimately, is never constructed.

tp_gal said...

Very good! Will add it to the official version.

Another term coming on line:

Sgay: adjective, a description used to describe someone, typically male who is living the life of a straight person, but whom people commonly assume is homosexual.