This was the closest race ever with just a few votes separating the top four finishers. Voters took my advice and spread their votes to many of the creative words and I found this the toughest week to be inventive and creative with the quite varied and different definitions.
1. Jabberwocky Score: 112
2. petaj Score: 111
3. Stevenson0 Score: 107
4. purpleartichokes Score: 107
Congratulations to all! See the final results here:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomists.php?week=2007-06-04
Monday – Useless Gadgets
1. gizmotional
2. gizbo
3. yabadabadoodad
4. gearoused
5. whizzbangst
Tuesday – Self Image Retouching Picture Disorder
1. phonyshopped
2. retouchiness
3. opticaldelusion
4. fauxtorexia
5. pixosis
Wednesday – Pulling a Band-Aid off Hairy Skin
1. trichotrauma
2. depilatorture
3. hurtsute
4. tearture
5. hairrowing
Thursday – Compulsive Repeated Mistake
1. stuplication
2. recidiotism
3. errerrerr
4. dohpeat
5. neuerrotic
Friday – Pet Language
1. petois
2. furnacular
3. bingolingo
4. petsperanto
5. furble
Top Ten Verboticisms of the Week:
1. Petois Created by: petaj
2. Furnacular Created by: ziggy41
3. Recidiotism Created by: serendipity9000
4. Gizmotional Created by: purpleartichokes
5. Trichotrauma Created by: petaj
6. Bingolingo Created by: Jabberwocky
7. Phonyshopped Created by: hennifer
8. Petsperanto Created by: Clayton
9. Yabadabadoodad Created by: Jabberwocky
10. Gizbo Created by: Stevenson0
Five Words That We Should Have Voted For, But Didn’t!!!
You should of, would of, could of voted for these!!!
* Technocrave Created by: pguse
* Cosmoshopism Created by: livejuicy
* Bandache Created by: docholiday
* Errennial Created by: Trystera
* Poochinese Created by: Osomatic
Verbantering
Doolittalian
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: doo-lit-al-yun
Sentence: ever since i became fluent in doolittalian, my dog and i have been much better at working through our issues
Etymology: dr doolittle, italian
Points: 14
Comments: Doolittalian
galwaywegian – 2007-06-08: 04:29:00
bada bingo!purpleartichokes – 2007-06-08: 06:47:00
Makes me yearn for spughetti!jadenguy – 2007-06-08: 09:43:00
oh noes, now i’m thinking about the episode of futurama where fry finds his old dog. that episode made me cry.Jabberwocky – 2007-06-08: 10:22:00
mmm spughetti with a starter course of clam chowchowder and a fresh salad with collieflowerpurpleartichokes – 2007-06-08: 11:17:00
And Yorkshire pudding for dessert.Jabberwocky – 2007-06-08: 11:38:00
perhaps a beagle with cream cheese or a cinnamon great daneishpurpleartichokes – 2007-06-08: 12:22:00
Hamster and cheese?Jabberwocky – 2007-06-08: 12:49:00
or german shepherd’s pie with a dachshund of catsupErWenn – 2007-06-08: 14:09:00
Or some poodles in marinara sauce…or a parrot cake…or some chicken cat-chiatore…ErWenn – 2007-06-08: 14:10:00
I was going to get into more obscure pets, but I started running into the problem that people are about as likely to eat some animals as they are to keep them as pets.purpleartichokes – 2007-06-08: 14:21:00
Like hushpuppies? Geez Rik, we’re really crapping up your place here, aren’t we? Hope you haven’t become petulant!Jabberwocky – 2007-06-08: 14:33:00
I don’t think rikboyee is that pettypurpleartichokes – 2007-06-08: 15:23:00
Woohoo! Quittin’ time. Headin’ home for a verbeer and a hot dog! Have a great weekend all!Jabberwocky – 2007-06-08: 15:43:00
make sure you have catsup and mouseturd with your hot dog purplepurpleartichokes – 2007-06-08: 18:55:00
i hate you jabber. heading over the cabin tomorrow, and there’s still a mouse in there. yum.petaj – 2007-06-08: 22:13:00
These puns are terrierbly funny.ErWenn – 2007-06-08: 23:50:00
Well, they’re pretty terrible, so I’ll half agree with petaj.jadenguy – 2007-06-09: 00:32:00
I guess puns just aren’t your teacup.rikboyee – 2007-06-09: 09:55:00
wow….if only comments were votes….i’d be best in show
Your Wumbling Observer,
Weeklink
I won Thursday–I think this is the first time I’ve won a day. 🙂 This is a great honour, because every single day, we have so, so many great words.