Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: sub/tohs

Sentence: Subtose overtakes the passengers as they settle down for the long ride to the city core from suburbia.

Etymology: subway, suburbanite + comatose

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: trav + uhl + oh + gee

Sentence: I was so travelogy this morning that I almost missed seeing the 12-foot-tall clown in the Western/Vermont station... er... I think the clown was there.

Etymology: travel + logy

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: trans-ri-vurs-it

Sentence: The pitfalls of being a transreversit are the times when you drool on your your newly dry-cleaned suit.

Etymology: transit + reverse

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: transbôrtāshən

Sentence: Steve loves fantasy football. As he dozes on on the public transbortation system he dreams that he is the star quarterback. Unfortunately yesterday\'s game went into overtime as he slept past his stop.

Etymology: transportation (the action of transporting someone or something) + bore (a tedious situation or thing)

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: home/a/tose

Sentence: Once again Ling ended up right where he started. Thanks to the piped in elevator music on the bus which always induced a homatose state, he had gone full circle and found himself waking to the bus driver shouting, "Hey you back there! End of the line!" Three nights a week he not only missed dinner, but ended up wasting money on cab fare AND flowers!

Etymology: Home + Comatose

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-26: 12:51:00

Hahaha. I actually did that twice, and visited both ends of the line. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 01:24:00

So did I but I was vah vah drunk. - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-27: 10:51:00

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Created by: hellohime

Pronunciation: Tun'l'fa'teeg

Sentence: I experience a severe case of tunnelfatigue on the way to work and woke up several miles from my stop.

Etymology: Tunnelfatigue - when a person is lulled into a deep sleep by the dull drone of wheels on pavement.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: tranz/it/den/tal/med/i/tay/shun

Sentence: I find the transitdentalmeditation technique is the most effective way to remove the stress of the daily commute while bringing fulfillment and contentment to life - it is achieved by gently gritting your teeth to absorb the vibrations of the subway track - no drooling allowed!

Etymology: transit + dental + transcendental meditation

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COMMENTS:

very nice! - astorey, 2008-08-26: 10:57:00

Great minds think alike...I had picked that word first but thought it too long...guess I should have followed that train of thought! - Nosila, 2008-08-26: 20:43:00

Now i know the word for the feeling I had as child whilst on the "tooth-rack" railway in Tasmanis. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-27: 04:49:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: trans port men tal

Sentence: When Henry was in one of his Zen-like moods, he used the long commute by public transit as a transportmental meditation opportunity. Indeed he did this so often, the conductor would tell him...your fare will cost Zen dollars...ha, ha, ha!

Etymology: Transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances) & Transcedental Meditation(existing outside of or not in accordance with nature;continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature)

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: snawr/veree

Sentence: I hated to wake the guy sitting next to me in the midst of what appeared to be a pleasant snoreverie, but the bus driver had just called "Last Stop!" and I definitely want off.

Etymology: Snore (breathe noisly in sleep) + Reverie (a state of day dreaming)

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COMMENTS:

...and I had to pay the RETURN fare! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 01:06:00

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: STUN-ruhn

Sentence: Although Bruce was fortified with a triple king-sized coffee and a fistful of No-doze, he was not looking forward to the morning STUNRUN. Reading was out of the question... the last time he tried that, he woke up at the end of the line with creases on his face. As he watched the bleak byways of industrial desolation crawl by, he remembered a STUNRUN he took a while back. Catching himself in a commuter's REM state, he hastily got off at the wrong stop and found himself in an unfinished, uninhabited proto-terminal in the Hackensack Marshlands. He wore out his patent leather Florsheim shoes that grim day just walking back to the fringes of civilization, and he wasn't eager to repeat that particular nighmare anytime soon. Getting home at the end of the day was bad enough, but the morning STUNRUN was just marginally more fun than a bone marrow transplant. And today was only MONDAY!

Etymology: STUN+RUN=STUNRUN.....stun: to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by repeated blows-Middle English stonen, stunen, from Anglo-French estoner .....run: the distance covered in a period of continuous traveling or commuting b: a course or trip especially if traveled with regularity-

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COMMENTS:

It gets worse-MUCH worse: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-08-26: 01:00:00

This is WAY too much fun ! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-26: 06:52:00

Good word, but thanks to you and that OzzieBob, I now have that Kingston Trio MTA Song circling the tunnels of my mind! - Nosila, 2008-08-26: 20:49:00

Just sing "Sloop John B." until it goes away, N.... - metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 01:07:00

Fantastic - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-27: 04:23:00

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