Well it was a year ago today that I registered verbotomy.com. I was attending the Cross Platform Mentorship Lab at the Banff New Media Centre in Banff, Alberta, Canada. It was a special program designed to help artists design, develop and produce multimedia art projects. I was getting a lot of positive feedback on the project, but Ravi Shukla the legal advisor, told me I had to come up with new name for my project. I immediately put on my thinking cap and came up with the name “Verbotomy”. It was available as a domain name, and when I searched the word “Verbotomy”, Google produced one, and only one result! It was a reference in the Oxford Dictionary to book published in England in the seventeenth century on the Taxonomy of Language. Perfect! Today Verbotomy produces over 100,000 Google results…
Anyways I haven’t finished today’s comic, so I have to get back to work. If you’d like to leave a comment or ask me question, just post it here.
Be creative!
James
P.S. Just posted the definition and comic so I thought I’d add it to this post.
DEFINITION: v. intr. To silently signal the position of a piece of food on a person’s face using hand gestures, facial expressions and tonguing motions. n. A nonverbal communication system used to alert and assist diners with food on their faces.
To see the definition and today’s verboticisms go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=cake
Thanks for your kind remarks. I’ve been having a blast here! One doesn’t HAVE to be weird to be a Verboholic but it helps.
Thanks for the heads up on purpleartichokes. The Verbolotomy was painless….in fact it was enjoyable.
Wow Mustang! I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed the verblotomy. Purple has a nice way the words that can even make painful things feel nice.
What can I say? I’m just a glutton for pleasure……errrr…..punishment.
Happy Birthday, Verbotomy — a site that delights both sides of the brain!
Hey Dan, Thanks for coming by and wishing us well! Your book “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future” (See: http://www.danpink.com/) has certainly inspired me! And I was thrilled that you offered an autographed copy as a prize for our most creative player during our “How to get a Right-Brain Verbotomy” Contest. (See: http://www.verbotomy.com/blog/index.php?s=right-brain).
Right-Brainers Rule!
Now this is a party! Complete with celebrities and brilliant Verbotomists! Congrats James!
Congratulations! I haven’t been too active recently – done got a job!
Word of warning – don’t you think German started off this way, and now their language consists of 73 verbs of 19 letters each!
Beware
Hey Adminstraitor — Thanks for coming by! Congratulations on your new job. And yes maybe we are creating a new language — Verbottish!
alright i’m here for the party now so…..hello?……hello?… hey whats with the empty keg and squashed cake?….guys?…….[blows party horn dejectedly and starts tidying up streamers]
Hey Rikboyee, I found another cake, someone sat on it, but, it still has some verbs and metaphors left in it…
Well the big right-brain birthday party bash is almost over! What a fun day it was! Thank you to everyone who visited the site today, and thanks to everyone who has helped make the first year of Verbotomy a successful and creative experience!
The day is ending as it started, as I work on finishing tomorrow’s, soon to be today’s, definition and comic. As unusual, it’s not quite finished…
Thanks for all the creative energy that everyone has put into Verbotomy this year!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
~ James
Owing to my special attachment to a coronary angiogram machine, I’m bit late coming to the party. Anyway, everything, according to my cardiologist, is OK; so I guess I can have a piece of birthday cake.
Thanks, James, for Verbotomy. As a senior citizen, it is what I call my “grayplay” giving me a chance daily to exercise my “gray matter” daily, through learning and enjoyment.
Furthermore, it has taken mean down many and varied by-ways of English such as: slang, dialect, and Old English. But, perhaps, most of all, it has allowed me once again to be a little bit crazy and zany.
PS: During my angiogram, to cope with the needles, nudges and nerves, I tried to think of verboticisms that I should have created, for example: rundills(crascade); yumflot (flotsyum); fitpong (gymwhiff). Perhaps, apart, from the educational and mental health value, verboticism may be useful as a meditative tool! Happy Birthday!
Thanks OZZIEBOB. As Dan Pink says, Verbotomy works on both sides of the brain. I’m pleased to hear that Verbotomy helped you focus your creative energy and keep yourself on track in a mentally stressful situation. Congratulations!
Gray Matter Rules!