Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: trouməəsträləjē

Sentence: Sidney (aka Lumpy) is working on a new field of study, traumastrology. It is the study of how a person is effected by the alignment of the stars that occur just after a blow to the head. He has worked for years to perfect just the right whack to the noggin. Too little and there are no stars, too much and the ability to gather data is lost. His theory is that a Pisces would react differently than a Taurus to the same concussive event. He may never know. He just can't seem to recruit test subjects. Friends think he has studied a bit too much on his own.

Etymology: trauma (physical injury) + astrology (the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world)

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COMMENTS:

like it - galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00

The science of the 2X4. Love it! - wayoffcenter, 2009-02-19: 06:46:00

Good one. - Mustang, 2009-02-19: 20:51:00

Deja vu all over again...where do you get your inspiration??? - Nosila, 2009-02-20: 01:40:00

nice... - mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:00:00

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Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: bawnk-mose

Sentence: Just as Newton was inspired to study gravity by being bombarded with apples, and Einstein encouraged to investigate the relativity of time by being forced to fill out dreary piles of paperwork in an office, so too was the the young Carl Sagan influenced by an outside event. After banging his head on a low shelf, he saw a personal 'bonkmos' of amazing brightness and detail, which led him to a career in science and experimentation with certain herbal supplements, all in an effort to recreate the 'little twittery cosmos' he saw on that long ago day.

Etymology: bonk + cosmos

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COMMENTS:

Brilliant and lyrical! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:37:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: star-spangld-BANG-ehr

Sentence: When the stars were whirling around his head and he heard the 'music' playing after rapping his head very hard on a low overhang Verne said aloud to no one in particular, "Whoa...that was really a starspangledbanger."

Etymology: Substituted 'banger' for 'banner' of Star Spangled Banner.

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Created by: hainous

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Sentence: As blows rained down upon him, he began to dizzualize stars, planets, and finally a whole galaxy.

Etymology: noun form: dissualization

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Created by: Yerolin

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: haʊ:strɒŋ:am:eeee

Sentence: After 10 years in grad school and countless blows to the head, Gerard finally got his degree in HowstrongamI from the Dept of "High to Middling Energy Howstro-Physics". Now all he needed was a bang on the ear and some beans to count.

Etymology: Pun on Astronomy : The "science" of how the sky was cooked up - a highly technical form of bean counting and stamp collecting.

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Created by: ctman56

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Sentence: After a friend hit Bob on the head with a basketball, he saw smackstars for a few minutes.

Etymology: Comes from the words smack and stars.....duh!

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kon kust el ay shun

Sentence: the concusstellation wasn't the only thing that was out tonight

Etymology: concussion, constellation

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon kus sent ing

Sentence: Drs. Wham & Bang regularly conked each other on the noggin with a baseball bat to test their stamina and duration of head trauma. At some point the mere violence of this act, and its affect on wht was left of their brains, became an act of love for them. Their results were not scientific, even though they were the acts of concussenting aduilts.

Etymology: Concuss (to injure the brain) & Consenting (as in adults having consent to do something)

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: cos mic head ache

Sentence: Galloping at full speed down the steps to the basement of the chalelet, Garth didn’t know what hit him! BANG! His body twitched and twisted to the stone floor. After a few seconds, he realised he had a cosmicheadache, one with personal fireworks that explode luminously on terrific head impacts! He would have to make a note of that sudden ceiling drop...in the meantime, ahhh thosse terrifi romaan candlezzzzzzzzzzz

Etymology: cosmicheadache n. Compound word from the two words: cosmic (of planetary travel) and headache.

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