Chaining multiple credit cards together to make a single payment.
The customer at the end of the line in aisle 2 sighed deeply and rolled his eyes as the girl at the checkout counter fanned out a wallet's worth of plastic—American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover—in front of the cashier. "I mean c'mon, do you really need that many cans of Pringles? Would it kill you to put down the pack of Salem Lights?" The woman in front of him turned around, shook her head in agreement, and said, "Cred chaining shouldn't be allowed. It's just not right."
Nov 5, 2012
Nov 4, 2012
#76 Escape art director
Artistic director of escapology in charge of designing novel escape scenarios, procedures, and techniques and leading a team of escape artists in executing on an escape program.
Handcuffs? Easy. Francis could slip out of them in his sleep. Straitjackets? Pretty much just as easy. Wrapped in chains, nailed shut in a coffin, and buried six feet under? OK, yes it required more skill and effort, but Francis had risen from the nearly dead more times than he could count. What about handcuffs (behind the back), straitjacket on, wrapped in chains, nailed shut in a coffin, and submerged underwater? Plus, throw some snakes in the coffin. A rookie escape artist definitely couldn't pull it off. Even a seasoned escape artist with a few years of experience under her belt probably couldn't pull it off. But Francis wasn't a rookie and he was more than a seasoned escape artist. He'd been in the business for more than 10 years and he was ready to take the next step. He was ready to become an escape art director.
Nov 3, 2012
#75 Browse party
A group of semi-organized people gathered to casually browse for no person or thing in particular.
The townsfolk formed a browse party to look for, well, any person or thing that might possibly be missing—a stolen heirloom or perhaps a kidnapped child. It didn't really matter what they found, or if they found anything at all. Nobody had anything better to do, and combing a field seemed like the perfect activity given the pleasant weather.
Nov 2, 2012
#74 Humanitation worker
A sanitation worker who cleans up human debris.
Godfrey was thrilled at the prospect of attending his first Civil War reenactment. Unfortunately, he was not ready to serve under Union Army Major General George B. McClellan in an assault on General Robert E. Lee's army at Antietam Creek. Nor was he ready to defend an outnumbered confederate force battling on Union soil for the first time. Today, on the bloodiest single-day of fighting in American history, Godfrey would be cleaning up after the battle. He would be serving both sides as a humanitation worker, gathering decapitated heads, eyeballs, and severed limbs (plastic, of course) and packing them into Rubbermaid bins in preparation for the next battle.
Godfrey was thrilled at the prospect of attending his first Civil War reenactment. Unfortunately, he was not ready to serve under Union Army Major General George B. McClellan in an assault on General Robert E. Lee's army at Antietam Creek. Nor was he ready to defend an outnumbered confederate force battling on Union soil for the first time. Today, on the bloodiest single-day of fighting in American history, Godfrey would be cleaning up after the battle. He would be serving both sides as a humanitation worker, gathering decapitated heads, eyeballs, and severed limbs (plastic, of course) and packing them into Rubbermaid bins in preparation for the next battle.
Nov 1, 2012
#73 Plop paradigm
An approach to content development characterized by dumping, or plopping, a vast amount of information onto the page with little or no thought given to structure, organization, coherence, or flow.
Embracing the plop paradigm was the right strategy, according to the strategists who had strategically strategized on the best course of action after assessing and analyzing the metrics matrix.
Embracing the plop paradigm was the right strategy, according to the strategists who had strategically strategized on the best course of action after assessing and analyzing the metrics matrix.
Oct 31, 2012
#72 Onomatolycanthropoeia
Onomatopoeia as applied to sounds of lyncanthropic origin.
As soon as the door swung open, the trick-or-treater in a werewolf costume demonstrated his mastery of onomatolycanthropoeia by letting out a deep, guttural "owoooooo!"
Root = onomatopoeia + lycanthropy
Oct 30, 2012
#71 Cryptozumbology
Sub-field of cryptozoology concerned with finding evidence for the existence of cryptozoological specimens practicing Zumba.
Dr. Phineas M. Warburton was your run-of-the-mill cryptozoologist—descending into the depths of Loch Ness in a miniature submarine to measure the ultrasonic vocalizations of the elusive Nessie, spelunking in Richtersveld, South Africa to collect the droppings of the legendary grootslang, roaming the remote corners of Puerto Rico to examine the entrails of livestock purportedly attacked by the fearsome chupacabra, and even scaling the craggy peaks of the Himalayas to measure the footprints of the legendary Yeti. That all changed when Dr. Spengler, in the midst of foraging for psychotropic mushrooms in the lush forests of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, encountered what appeared to be a troop of kooloo-kamba performing a Zumba routine to a Gloria Estefan track emanating from the forest canopy. He failed to collect evidence from the scene, but the experience left a deep imprint on his psyche and he vowed to devote his life's work to the study of cryptozumbology.
Root = Cryptozoology + Zumba
Dr. Phineas M. Warburton was your run-of-the-mill cryptozoologist—descending into the depths of Loch Ness in a miniature submarine to measure the ultrasonic vocalizations of the elusive Nessie, spelunking in Richtersveld, South Africa to collect the droppings of the legendary grootslang, roaming the remote corners of Puerto Rico to examine the entrails of livestock purportedly attacked by the fearsome chupacabra, and even scaling the craggy peaks of the Himalayas to measure the footprints of the legendary Yeti. That all changed when Dr. Spengler, in the midst of foraging for psychotropic mushrooms in the lush forests of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, encountered what appeared to be a troop of kooloo-kamba performing a Zumba routine to a Gloria Estefan track emanating from the forest canopy. He failed to collect evidence from the scene, but the experience left a deep imprint on his psyche and he vowed to devote his life's work to the study of cryptozumbology.
Root = Cryptozoology + Zumba
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