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DEFINITION: v. intr. To frustrate oneself by sending emails to someone who cannot receive them, especially when "over quota". n. An emotional response to bounced-back email.

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Sendstricken

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: send - strik - en

Sentence: When Jeremiah did not receive any of the dozens of emails that Patty send him, she was simply sendstricken.

Etymology: send, stricken

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Thwartmail

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: thwot-mail

Sentence: Sandra was thwartmailed when all 400 recipients' invitations bounced back, sending her own inbox over quota.

Etymology: hotmail (web email service) + thwart (to frustrate)

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Cyberized

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: si-ber-ized

Sentence: Sickorina was obviously cyberized by her unsuccessful attempts in trying to stalk the former guy she dated one time.

Etymology: Cyber - of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality. Ized - Just made up, to show...one who is in the act of crazy overkill messaging.

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Ejectshun

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ējektshən

Sentence: Gloria couldn’t help but feel ejectshun when every e-mail she sent out bounced back. Turns out most of her friends are just as lazy as she is about clearing old e-mails.

Etymology: e (electronic) + rejection (refuse to agree) + shun (persistently avoid, ignore, or reject)

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Deliveryfailuretotalprostration

Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: "DFTP," he said to his flatmate, "I'll never get a message to her before she leaves for the airport. Arianna, WHY???"

Etymology: "Delivery Failure Notification" + "Total Prostration"

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COMMENTS:

wow, It's like,like reading a novel... what happens next??!1,LOL Great word and sentence! Grasshopper - grasshopper, 2007-05-30: 11:05:00

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Sendsitive

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: send-sah-tiv

Sentence: staring at the growing list of rejected emails, with my lip quivering uncontrollably, i realised i was becoming far to sendsitive

Etymology: send, sensitive

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Deesappointment

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: dees/app/oint/ment

Sentence: Deesappointment occurs when one emails fruitlessly.

Etymology: disappointment + e

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Emangle

Created by: ngajoe

Pronunciation: E-main-GULL

Sentence: Kelly's emanglement grew with every passing pop-up.

Etymology:

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Quotancholy

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈkwoʊdənˌkɑly/

Sentence: The quotancholy overtook me mere hours after she left for work. Why hadn't she cleared out enough room in her inbox for the 29 funny videos that I forwarded her?

Etymology: From quota + melancholy

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Daemonstrated

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: dee-mon-stra-ted

Sentence: Marla became more and more daemonstrated by the bounced emails in her inbox. Every one of them said Mailer-daemon@hercompany.com. She wondered if she should contact a priest to exorcise the mysterious, evil entity in her computer who foiled her attempts to contact the cute guy in shipping.

Etymology: daemon: a mail server program that runs in the background; maildaemon@___.com is the message one gets when an email is bounced for some reason such as an incorrect address or a domain is on a blacklist(term comes from Greek Mythology meaning a Guardian Spirit) + frustrated: having one's plans foiled + demonstrated: incapable of being disputed

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Correspondespondency

Created by: jerschneid

Pronunciation: COR-RE-SPON-DE-SPON-DEN-CY

Sentence: With every bounced email to my ex-girlfriend, my correspondespondency grows.

Etymology: a combination of "correspondence" and "despondency"

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COMMENTS:

excellent word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:20:00

Perfect! - lumina, 2008-07-24: 16:08:00

I like it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-25: 17:43:00

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Emotirts

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: e-MO-terts

Sentence: After several of her emails bounced back, Roxie thought that a few emoticons in her text might get a better response. But when she broadcast the following email: ":o, 4col, Im :e tis adih: afiniati (iI) Im sobt u :8)(U=xc) W.B.S A.*

Etymology: Blend of EMOT (as in emoticon); EM: for email & acronym: R.T.S: return to sender.

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After several of her emails bounced Roxie thought that a few emoticons in her text might get a better response. But when she broadcast the following email: ":o, 4col, Im :e tis adih: afiniati {iI} Im sobt u :8)[U=xc] W.B.S A.* - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-24: 05:58:00

The last part of my sentence to read: "her emotirts grew rapidly." * Cannot save it in the sentence box???? - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-24: 06:03:00

Think it got through now? Hope so, otherwise Roxie's may have "bounce-back" breakdown. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-24: 06:15:00

I keep wanting to add rig to the beginning of your word which might be appropriate - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:16:00

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Enailed

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: e-nailed

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Etymology: e-mail and nailed so electronicaly nailed is enailed

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Ebound

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: e/bound

Sentence: Her emails to Jordan were ebounded immediately with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure". She was sure it was deliberate and that she was on the ebound.

Etymology: e + rebound

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Egloomerang

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: ee-GLOOM-uhr-rang

Sentence: Alex got hit with an egloomerang when his girlfriend who "supposedly" couldn't read his e-mail refused to respond to his request to meet at the malt shop.

Etymology: e-mail + gloom + boomerang

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Emailaise

Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: ee-ma-LEYZ

Sentence: Jenna's emailaise was becoming unbearable. If they didn't want to give her the job, why did they give her a second interview and make her take the stupid Excel test?

Etymology: email + malaise

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COMMENTS:

nice one! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-30: 06:09:00

Thanks... it was one of those that just popped into my head right away. Wish they all did that. - Clayton, 2007-05-30: 09:19:00

very good word - very fitting for the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 11:54:00

Fantastic. - mplsbohemian, 2007-05-30: 12:26:00

Wow... my highest scoring word yet! I need to stop thinking more often. ^_^ - Clayton, 2007-05-30: 17:57:00

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Phishappoint

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fish ap poynt

Sentence: Eudora had been having an e-mail relationship with Dick, whom she had met on a dating website, "lonelyloserswhowant tomeetotherlonelylosers.com". He could not have been sweeter, telling all the lovely things she had ever wanted to hear. He knew a lot about her, but wanted to know more. Like where she banked (and her account number)and her daily routine. After she had told him all about herself, the e-mails slowed down and the last few she had sent him kept bouncing back as undeliverable. Naive as she was, she realized that he was losing interest rapidly and she could not even contact him. He was about to really phishappoint her more the next time she used her debit card!

Etymology: Phish (The act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization) & Disappoint (fail to meet the hopes or expectations of)

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Inboxicated

Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: in/box/i/cated

Sentence: Jill was sure Marvin had bought some kind of program that would make it look as though his inbox was too full to accept incoming email. She could not pull away however, having become inboxicated with her love for him.

Etymology: derived from intoxicated: Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).

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funny! - reverb, 2008-07-25: 17:16:00

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Ebound

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: e/bound

Sentence: Jenny's e-mails to Joe were ebounded immediately with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure". She was sure it was deliberate and that she was on the ebound.

Etymology: EBOUND - verb - from E-MAIL + REBOUND

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COMMENTS:

Me likey. - lumina, 2008-07-24: 16:07:00

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Bouncemote

Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: bounce - e - mote

Sentence: I couldn't help myself, every rejected email caused me to bouncemote all over again.

Etymology: bounce (as in a bounced email) + emote (to express emotion, especially in an excessive or theatrical manner)... also has a nice sound play on 'email'

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Sendergasted

Created by: grasshopper

Pronunciation: sin/der/gas/ted

Sentence: I have been flabbergasted but I never thought i would be sindergasted

Etymology: sinder/to send, flabbergasted/dumbfounded or taken aback by something

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Cyberlone

Created by: souvikroy26

Pronunciation: sigh-ber-lone

Sentence: after break-up it seems cyberlone is wat i am left with

Etymology:

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Eprostricate

Created by: Paulefinch

Pronunciation: ee-pross-trick-ate

Sentence: Kelly kept eProstricating herself sending more and more emails to her exboyfriend.

Etymology: e+prostrate+subjugate

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Messedgy

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: mess-eh-jee

Sentence: Sue was becoming quite messedgy - it was obvious that her e-mails to her latest boyfriend were being returned.

Etymology: message, edgy (anxious and irritable)

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hey purple - you must have had a wild memorial day weekend to be logging in so late - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 11:59:00

Oh yeah, I've been off of work since Saturday! Unfortunately, I didn't have much fun, the yard work got out of hand, the garden needed planting, and I was up to my knees in mouse turds at the cabin. Think I'll suggest a definition for a really gross task... - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-30: 12:05:00

I'm sure it will all pay off - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 12:40:00

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Emobilized

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ee/mow/bill/eyesd

Sentence: Jill was completely emobilized by her empty inbox. All of her heartfelt notes were flying around in cyberspace, rejected.

Etymology: email + immobilize + emotion

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This word has a 90% chance of entering the English Internet lexicon. It could be the next "moar." - jadenguy, 2007-05-30: 09:38:00

jadenguy - you must be friends with ziggy41 - he's a numbers person too - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 14:19:00

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Bounceeblues

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: bou n see blooze

Sentence: The bounceeblues really hurt, especially as this was her first experience of being the bouncee. That's that she cried, I'm finished with e-males forever.

Etymology: bounce blues bouncee as in victim.

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maybe she hit the bounceebooze after her rejection and became a bounceebluesboozehound - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 10:50:00

if she fell in an inebriation state, and got a bouncebluesboozebruise? - jadenguy, 2007-05-30: 12:45:00

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Daemonstrate

ohwtepph

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: DEY - mohn - streyt

Sentence: Shirley was daemonstrated after she saw his inbox flooded with rejection e-mails. She died of suffocation when her tears dried up and turned to salt and was stuck in her nostrils because of the radiation her monitor was emitting. I guess daemonstration could really kill you.

Etymology: daemon [mailer daemon] + demonstrate [to show clearly] + frustrate [to have feelings of discouragement] + devastate

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Replytosenderation

Created by: frosteefire

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Geewhizmail

Created by: galwaywegian

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Spamwalling

scissorjammer

Created by: scissorjammer

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: from Stonewalling

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Emailsculated

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ee/male/scu/lay/ted

Sentence: Chris felt totally emailsculated by his empty inbox. All of his heartfelt notes were flying around in cyberspace, rejected.

Etymology: email + emasculated

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hooterbug Awwwwwwwwwwwwww - hooterbug, 2008-07-24: 07:59:00

Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-25: 17:43:00

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Symbla

Created by: RubyWry

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Weblock

Created by: evthalia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Invisible internet barriers prevented her inteded action(s) from materializing resulting in strong negative emotional overflow.

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Jerkmail

hooterbug

Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: jûrk meyl

Sentence: Brian was ecstatic that his new Jerkmail filter was working correctly after dumping his E-Stalker girlfriend Susan

Etymology: Blend of Jerk + Junkmail

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ooh - that's a bit harsh - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:18:00

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Vexinate

Created by: allie123

Pronunciation: veks - in - eyt

Sentence: Kelly became really vexinated when she realized that all her emails were being rejected

Etymology: VEXINATE - verb - from VEX (infuriate; exasperate) + ate (from communicate)

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Egitated

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: e/gi/ta/ted

Sentence: Sally was very egitated that her emails to Jordan were returned with the message "Delivery Notification - Failure" .

Etymology: e + agitated

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e-strordinary - Nosila, 2009-12-11: 23:07:00

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Emailancholy

karenanne

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: EE MAYL en kah lee

Sentence: Rachel and Theo usually conducted their long-distance romance via e-mail. But Rachel hadn't heard from Theo in several days. All she received were bounce-back messages. Soon dread and emailancholy set in. Only days later did she learn that Theo had been on a business trip and his personal e-mail box had become full. In fact, as it happened, it was full of HER messages because he lovingly saved every single thing she sent him.

Etymology: e-mail + melancholy

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brilliant - galwaywegian, 2009-12-11: 10:07:00

awww...e-xecellent! - Nosila, 2009-12-11: 23:05:00

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Emailody

Created by: nbsalomon

Pronunciation: ee-mayle-uh-dee

Sentence: My emailody was caused by my boyfriend.

Etymology: from email and malody

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Enailed

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: ee/nayld

Sentence: arrgg - enailed again

Etymology: email + nailed

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Stalkobsession

Created by: bubbos

Pronunciation: Stalk-ob-session

Sentence: After 100 emails she knows she has to stop this stalkobsession before she becomes suicidal

Etymology: Stalker - person who won't stop pestering someone else. Obsession - a scary wanting of something that is unattainable

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Masoemailchist

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: mah-so-ee-mail-kist

Sentence: Mabel masoemailchisted herself today one last time before giving Chad the old heave ho.

Etymology: masochist + email

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Emoticonfuse

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ee mo tik kon fuze

Sentence: After their passionate one night stand, Erin had e-mailed Derrin hundreds of times. His non-response, in fact returned e-mails, had the affect to emoticonfuse her and make her wonder where she went wrong. Being rejected in person was bad enough, but being e-jected was even worse to someone like Erin who lived her life on-line.

Etymology: Emoticon (a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email) & Confuse (be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;cause to feel embarrassment)

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Ebound

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ēbound

Sentence: She was on the ebound when she met Gig. All those other addresses had been so rude as to reject her advances but Gig not only had room for her, he welcomed her with an open portal.

Etymology: email (messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network) + rebound (still affected by the emotional distress caused by the ending of a romantic or sexual relationship)

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Cybergravate

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SYE - ber - gruh - vayt

Sentence: Lucinda continued to cybergravte herself daily by sending countless numbers of emails to her friends long after they had taken up text messaging for their personal communications.

Etymology: Blend of 'cyber' and 'aggravate'.

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nice blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:14:00

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Redingusend

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: REE-DEEN-GUSS-SEND

Sentence: Fran sent so many e-mails to her department head that she forgot what they were about................... "I just can't REDINGUSEND any more!" she cried in frustration. Ultimately, she was reduced to posting a note on his office door: "READ YOUR ****ing E-MAIL ALREADY !" .........reDINGusend................

Etymology: RE+DINGUS+SEND.........................REpeatedly+DINGUS-one whose name is forgotten or unknown+SEND-a futile repetitive cyberage attempt to communicate.

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Missage

Created by: cascadingstylesheet

Pronunciation: mis-sage

Sentence: Despite receiving twenty bounced emails from Jason, Kylie still felt compelled to repeatedly missage him.

Etymology: From miss (to fail to hit) and message (a communication containing some information).

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nice etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-24: 14:19:00

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Elecracize

Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: Elec - ra - size

Sentence: Although she felt elecracized, what she didn't know was that her emails were going to the wrong address!

Etymology: Electronic + Ostracize

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Pesterlink

Created by: Scattercat

Pronunciation: PEHS-tur-link

Sentence: A long night of pesterlinking her professors, begging for second chances, was followed by crying herself to sleep and a morning of moping in bed.

Etymology: Pestering, as annoying, and link as reminiscent of hypertext connections.

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Frustremailession

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: fruh stree male ess shun

Sentence: After suffering frustremailession, Sheila finally gave up emailing Dave Letterman.

Etymology: Frustration+email sion makes it a noun.

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Mailgorge

Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: mAYL- GOR -J

Sentence: after sending his ex one email, he felt he might as well send her another and another and before he knew it the mailgorging had begun again. Tomorrow, he thought, i'll start the 12 point progrtamme again.

Etymology: MAIL- POST OF ELECTRONIC OR PAPER VARIETY. GORGE - TO GIVE IN TO YOUR APPETITES AND KEEP FEEDING THEM BEYOND REASONABLE SATIETY.

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-30: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire! ~ James

iwasatripwire - 2007-05-31: 10:41:00
The drawing kind of looks like me, too!

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-24: 00:52:00
http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_main/gen/eh_index.shtml

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-24: 17:56:00
I'm going to REDINGUSEND all you verbotomists!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-07-28: 00:02:00
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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-12-11: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James