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Things that should have names but don't
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Poink - to poke with a broom an object or substance that is possibly unsavory
Also a town in Surrey, England.
I know this because it's where I live.
BTW, it's Woe-King
Your cat's dire need of watching you using the toilet.
My cat is a dedicated felyeur.
Am I correct in assuming that puns revolving around "Woking Man" or "Hardly Woking" are considered poor form?
I picture myself trying to explain to my grandfather how, even though he's mastered it for icons on his desktop, he doesn't need to double-click on stuff on the internet. I feel bad though, because he takes it so seriously - takes his hand off the mouse, poised for that double-click, while his other hand holds it in place.
Pleeflick (n) - That single strand of hair that always manages to stick out in a photo.
Yes, I do use this word.
"Podcasts" could also use a name that doesn't require you to add "no, you don't need an iPod to listen to this shit".
What's wrong with "meme"? It's got a Greek root and everything!
"Blog" really does need to die - I advocate simply calling them web sites, since there's nothing to distinguish a "blog" from any other site.
My group of friends have been using this for quite a while. We actually invented the word before the usage, on the basis that it sounds awesome when said out loud.
Someone of internet prominence (exactly whom, I forget), has suggested they be called "Netcasts" to disassociate them from the iPod. You might want to Google it if you want a more specific answer.
We need a word for people who double click links, and perhaps this can also apply to people who capitalize domain names and email addresses on their business cards.
Also, speaking of words we DON'T need, I really fucking hope that "webizode" doesn't catch on. It's an episode, and it's on the internet. You don't need a new word for it.
dickshovel: The act of intentionally taking someone's seat once they've gone to another room for a moment.
We call that the "3 second rule". There are exemptions for socially beneficial acts of seat vacation such as making tea/coffee or being the sole rent payer in a house.
"weblog" only adds one syllable and sounds much less twatty.
I'm suprised that this hasn't entered normal vocabulary, while so many other simpsons terms and refferences have. The episode gave the definition as "to succeede despite idiocy", which I dont really like. The examples given by the episode sugest a better and more useful definition though- "to succeed due to idiocy". Basically you do something stupid/wrong but through luck ends up being a good thing for you. This sort of thing happens pretty frequently, it deserves this word.
Perhaps "schnorfpop" for the onomatopoeia of the exploding brain aneurysm you have from trying to parse these types of phrases.
There certainly are characteristics that distinguish blogs from other sites.
While at college we discovered that one could use AOL Instant Messenger (or "AIM") as a file-sharing device. In your options you can choose a folder to share and then anyone on your buddy list (you can change these settings, but I liked to keep it exclusive to cats I knew personally) can right-click, hit 'get file' and download your music collection to their computer while you were at class.
We decided this specific type of pirating (where you're only copying the music of someone you know) would be called 'poaching'.
As in:
I just poached your Tenacious D CD yesterday. Shit is awesome!
or
Could you let me poach that copy of Fight Club tonight? I've been itching to watch that again.
It came pretty naturally into use and then died away once we'd traded anything interesting we might have.