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DEFINITION: An individual, or an organization, which profits by selling fear of imminent global destruction and/or eternal damnation.
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Wrecksploitation
Created by: xtine
Pronunciation: reck-sploy-tay-shun
Sentence: Every time another climate based disaster occurred, Sally mounted another Google keyword ad campaign to collect donations, a shameless example of wrecksploitation.
Etymology: wreckage, exploitation
Opside
Created by: coolkids58
Pronunciation: apsid
Sentence: theres an opside organasation that guy is a opside
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
o=organization p=profits s=selling i=imminent d=distruction/damnation - coolkids58, 2007-08-10: 10:32:00
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Apocorich
Created by: Gionuzzo
Pronunciation: uh POK oh rich
Sentence: Hoboes with "the world will end!" signs do exactly the same thing as the apocorich company that made the Al Gore/Global warming movie, but the hobos don't make money!
Etymology: apocolypse + rich
Ecoporium
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: echo-pour-ee-um
Sentence: I went to the ecoporium today. I needed to assuage my guilt from overconsumerism and fear of global destruction by indulging in some retail therapy. So I put some pure wool gloves, knitted by hand in the Gobi Desert, sailed across the ocean and delivered by Prius to the shops. I put them on my carboncredit card.
Etymology: ecology + emporium
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COMMENTS:
You have to watch out that those carboncredit cards don't catch a light a burn a hole in your pocket. - petaj, 2007-08-12: 02:44:00
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Genosavior
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: gen-oh-save-yer
Sentence: The world is gonna explode from over-heating of the earths core... unless you buy ice, thats right, ice, but not just any ice, magic ice.
Etymology: genocide-savior
Terrorpress
Created by: phdschub
Pronunciation: ter-ror-press
Sentence: Why does the terrorpress always find us in a state of impending doom. or 2)The terrorpress got to me again.
Etymology:
Greenfleece
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: GREEN-fleece
Sentence: Although Harriet had submitted her application 18 months ago, along with the $495 membership fee, she suddenly began to realize that she may not have been selected as an elite member of Greenfleece.
Etymology: Green (money) + Greenpeace + fleece (rip off)
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COMMENTS:
A growing trend. Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:54:00
I like it as a verb, too - xtine, 2007-08-13: 16:42:00
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Manifeto
Created by: fensketo
Pronunciation: man-a-feet-oh
Sentence: Man if I wasn't manifeto I wouldn't be a loser!
Etymology: Man - Feet
Terrorcorp
Created by: GreenTara
Pronunciation: Terror-Corp
Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.
Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation
Comments:
iwasatripwire - 2007-08-12: 01:27:00
repeat!