posted
Todd . . did you know there's a game 'show' program that comes on National Public Radio called "Wait...wait, don't tell me" . . .?
(Comes on Sunday's here)
Part of the program is where the three regular performers are given a really unusual, but real word. One of them is given the real definition and the other two others have to make up a definition that sounds very feasible. The call-in guest player has to decide which one is giving the correct definition . . .I't gets pretty hilarious some of the actual words and crazy definitions they come up with . . .
I make up words all the time when we are cuttin' up on jobs and such . . .they just tend to happen from the spontaneous craziness that occurs under strange circumstances, or boredom to due to lack of them . . .
and for the life of me . . .I can't think of one right this minute . . .
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
oneshot on chat
"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
| IP: Logged |
OK Todd . . .I just recalled one from the other day!! . . .it came to me because of playing with Doug about the word 'cosmic' . . .(it might even be a real word . . .but I ain't sure . . .lol)
Karmatic, the ongoing, inevitable activity due to the karma-like influences of the saying: "What goes around comes around" n. Karmatically
woops, also: Karamatic or Karmamatic, additional automatic costs for pain in the butt customers.
(In the following case, a customer who is known for her un-ending ability to give greif to all contractors was warned about the possible difficulties and costs of her sign installation, which turned out to be harder to dig then we even thought possible . . .lol) . . .
"This is a karmatically engineered post hole that is going to add a kar'amatic additional cost!! LOL! Reserved soley for the customer's who continously spew bad karma!!"
You'd have to know this lady-customer to fully understand....or ya probably DO know her by another name in another town . . . . . .
LOL Todd . . .we can go on for hours abusing any concept like this on job site.
"Man...she's got bad 'Karmal' . . .she ain't sweet at ALL!"
This is what happens when you get 'Mr. Wizard' the electrician guy, and that 'sign lady' with the sarcastic wit together to install a sign . . .'Murphy' always shows up too and all sense of seriousness, propriety or remorse is thrown out and replaced with assinine comic relief. Actually, this is by design in order to abort any anger and frustration which might erupt into carelessly slung cuss words and tools . . . . . .
posted
shelia if someone is a pain in the butt turn over. hehe
-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
BTW Sheila, I think this game you mention is available in a box and possibly called Balderdash? We used to play it without anything but a dictionary. We called it dictionary. How about "pictionary" though!!! that would be a great game among sign makers late at the hotel between Letterhead meet events (I actually also drew a pretty mean hangman in my parenting days)
kurtains - what you get when you apply way too much paint and there are a series of connected runs.
sploosh - a sound made when something valuable falls into the water
aromarticulation - a natural venting of sorts
-------------------- "Are we having fun yet?" Peter Schuttinga DZines Sign Studio 1617 Millstream rd Victoria BC V9B-6G4 Posts: 521 | From: Victoria BC | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Kissy... you just need to make up words faster then the censorship filters can be updated... I'm afraid you made up those words waaaay too long ago to expect to slip them under the radar... lets hear some ripe new tongue-lashings for the modern day
posted
We actually use these... it gets crazy here.
Chassisflex
(a)Something warped out of shape or that moves around while you are working on it. (b)A phenomenon involving something that moves while you are working on it. (c)The result of wreckless driving also pronounced rassyfrex.
Shwoosting ...usually goes hand in hand with chassisflex. Example: "Man you really went shwoosting when your ladder chassisflexed!"
Frow you know..like water. Make the paint frow. The layout must have good frow. Smooth frowing curves. Frow out the trash.
posted
OK, this is dumb, but you guys reminded me of it. It's a word I actually use, when mixing or pouring paint.
I guess it would be spelled Balook. Pronounced buh-luke. When you grab a gallon of stirred paint that's got the lid off, and quickly pour just the right amount wherever you need it, by instinct. Not limited to, but especially applies to mixing colors. "Qickly poured" as in almost thrown in there. On the upward stroke, the can is often rotated so as to 'cut' through the stream of paint, leaving no mess on the side of the can.
If I thought about it any length of time, I could probably come up with numerous others, as I'm always describing make believe sound effects for actions or things moving. Even things that don't make sound, MUST have a comic book sound effect assigned to them. THEY MUST!
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
Sheila, somebody ought to give the guy you described one of those fight scenes from the original Batman and Robin series.
"biff! Bam! POW! crunch! (words written across TV screen for better effect.)
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
LOL Mr. Holohan!! I was JUST needing one of those the other day!!
Here's a couple more, compliments my electrician buddy, Jerry . . .
Several years ago, I was helpin' him once on one of his electrical jobs . . .he goes . . ."I need a 'wire stretcher'..."
Trying to be helpful, I replied, "Where is it? On the truck?" Not wanting to lose the this priceless moment he said, "Oh YEH!. . .it's in that big tool box . . .kind'a looks like a pair of pliers . . ."
I walked all the way out to his truck and spend like 30 minutes looking for this non-existent tool and bring back 5 kinds of pliers . . .LOL...
We STILL laugh over this.
Another of his humorous jokes when we went into a paint store . . ."Y'all got any striped paint??"
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
oneshot on chat
"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
| IP: Logged |
You see, 'glut' is an old and widely used (back when) term refering to a wooden wedge used to split wood apart, particularly cedar rails for fencing. The wedge is made of dogwood, as it holds together under this rough use-age( ). It's struck with a hickory maul, as a steel hammer would damage the glut.
My children are unaware of this thread, but just an hour ago made up an interesting word. We were talking about a verse from proverbs:"Go to the ant thou sluggard, and consider her ways..." My oldest daughter said "Flubbard". I thought about my waistline right then.
[ March 01, 2005, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: James Donahue ]
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
SNARF: when you extrude whatever you were drinking through your nostrils due to laughter. Love...Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
geez Sheila... you obviously weren't in boy scouts or you'da seen that one coming a mile away (maybe girl scouts initiation didn't include sending the new recruit out for the old "left handed monkey wrench"... of the infamous "skyhook")
posted
Of course the word we use here often... "PITA" I'm sure you already know it and use it for your special customers, it stands for Pain In The Arse. We even write it on our INHOUSE memos.
-------------------- Gene Golden Gettysburg Signs Gettysburg PA 17325 717-334-0200 genegolden@gettysburgsigns.com
"Art is knowing when to stop." Posts: 1578 | From: Gettysburg, PA | Registered: Jun 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
now i understand why my use of grammar is so important to some
-------------------- Gavin Chachere Plotter in the garage,New Orleans La.
"Sgts Shugart and Gordon again request permission to rope down to crash site two" Posts: 1223 | From: new orleans.la. | Registered: Mar 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
GAVINIZING: The lack of using paragraphs in a post! (Gavin, you know I think you are cool, and I DO read your posts because they are worth it. Just couldn't resist this one) Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
....so then, in that vein.... BILLING Is that when I send HIM out to do a job or IT out to get paid?!?
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
| IP: Logged |
A greeting I submit after Jane has dispatched me to look at a job.
....
GARBOONE
A large dingleberry
....
GROWPEEUS
When a thermaseetle is brought before a fortinastance as when the power is vested before an acqueezement -- the ramifications of which are usually life threatening.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
| IP: Logged |
That line just beyond the one you can identify with on your ruler or tape measure. An indefinite amount.
ie: make it 16-1/2 inches plus an Umph-Gumph
that means 16-9/16 or thereabouts
My father taught me that one way back about when I was like 3 years old, while helping him workin the the shop.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged |
-------------------- Karen Wunch (kwunch on chat) A2Z SIGNS in Buford, GA 678.714.1965 ---------------- "Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest." ~~Beatrice Potter Posts: 126 | From: Buford Georgia | Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
LOL Todd...you goofy guy . .. skorts are a real clothing item...they are similar to 'coulottes' which are shorts with a skirt-like flap in the front.
Skorts are shorts with an attached at the waist skirt all around, or a flap in the back and front for a skirt-like appearance....
Now if I could just think of some item of men's clothing I know nothing about... I could 'make it up' like a new word . . .
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
oneshot on chat
"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
kippers (noun): grown up children living with their parents (kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement savings).
-------------------- "Stewey" on chat
"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
| IP: Logged |
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
(I actually also drew a pretty mean hangman in my parenting days)
![[Rolling On The Floor]](graemlins/rolf.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
![[For Your Information]](graemlins/fyi.gif)
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
![[I Don t Know]](graemlins/dunno.gif)
![[Bash]](graemlins/bash.gif)
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic