Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v., to post sticky notes all over the place, including sticky notes to remind you to read the previously posted sticky notes. n., an obsessive compulsive dependency on sticky notes.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Papyrupylump
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: puh-PIE-ruh-PIE-lump
Sentence: Cynthiana acquired a lifetime supply of sticky notepads as a result of her long dating relationship with Art, who owned an office supply store. 3,691,140 little sheets of semi-adhesive paper of many colors festooned her work area, and began to spread across the office like a slime mold on steroids. She would hand them out like after-dinner mints, and all her co-workers had piles of the little pads jamming their desk drawers. One day her PAPYRUPYLUMP had reached ridiculous proportions and prompted a written warning from the Fire Inspector. The boss gave her two options: seek immediate help or be terminated at once. With her pouty lips frozen in a grimace of defeat, she returned to her PAPYRUPYLUMP and penned one last flourescent orange note to herself: " Call Therapist A.S.A.P."
Etymology: PAPYRUs+PYlon+LUMP=PAPYPYLUMP.....PAPYRUS:the pith of the papyrus plant especially when made into strips and pressed into a material to write on- Middle English papir, from Anglo-French, from Latin papyrus papyrus, paper, from Greek papyros papyrus .....PYLON:Greek pylōn, from pylē gate - a monumental mass flanking an entranceway or an approach to an office.....LUMP:middle english 14th century-a piece or mass of indefinite size and shape.....thus:PAPYRUPYLUMP
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
3M post-it pads were co-invented by Art Fry and Stephen Silver-Patent No.3.691,140- and are manufactured in Cynthiana, Kentucky.
http://www.thistothat.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-08-25: 08:30:00
makes me think of the little drummer boy 'parumpapumpum' - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-25: 09:11:00
----------------------------
Spasticky
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: spa-stik-ee
Sentence: What began as simple postitillation during the early phase of her project, mushroomed to despostism as she became increasingly fanoteical the closer she got to her deadline. On the eve before her presentation, she went completely spasticky and was found the next morning cocooned in her cubicle, and mummified by her own gluey to do lists. She was diagnosed with minor paper cuts and Post-It Traumatic Stress Disorder and sent home to recuperate. The moral: Visual organizers can be good, but beware, my fellow verbotomists, it's a slippery slope...or in this case, a sticky one.
Etymology: spastic + sticky note
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Great word. Great sentence! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-24: 09:32:00
I'm stuck on it: great word & love the sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-24: 18:46:00
Stick ‘Em Up - the spasticky's mantra - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-25: 06:00:00
----------------------------
Memogamy
Created by: SethelMerman
Pronunciation: Mem-AHH-guh-mee
Sentence: Four of my Five wives agree, I'm really married to post-it notes. Remind me to remind them to not tell the neighbors I practice Memogamy.
Etymology: From (Memo: a note) + (gamy: marriage as in menogamy or polygamy)
Threembolism
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: th/ree/em/bowl/ism
Sentence: Margo's productivity--indeed, her very life--was completely obstructed by her compulsion to document every task, thought and reminder onto stickynotes and put them everywhere. The threembolism occurred when she couldn't find the note that told her where to start in processing all the other notes.
Etymology: 3M--creator of the Post-it Note (tm) combined with embolism--The sudden blocking of an artery by a clot or foreign material which has been brought to its site of lodgment by the blood current.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
love it - you and hooterbug are on the same wavelength - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-25: 13:16:00
another good word...it's like a threemergency! - Nosila, 2008-08-25: 22:18:00
----------------------------
Stickmatism
Created by: tizher
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She would be stuck with the stickma for the rest of her life.
Etymology:
Lotechretary
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: low TECK ruh terr ee
Sentence: By following her trail of Post-It notes, we were able to locate our lotechretary buried in a mountain of paper next to the mimeograph machine.
Etymology: low tech (low technology) + secretary
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
WITTY!!! - DrWebsterIII, 2012-10-25: 12:16:00
----------------------------
Stickiffiti
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: stik-uh-FEE-tee
Sentence: When Bob started to post strange words on "stick-it-notes", the walls of his home soon began to resemble a crazy man's kaleidscope. And when, upon returning home one day he found the words: "Blissknell, Gloombane and Mindgeld" in Roxie's handwriting on "post-it" notes on the kitchen-table, he started to think that all this stickifitti might have gone a bit too far.
Etymology: Blend of STICK-IT & GRAFFITI
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
...Another chilling tale! Good one, O-Bob! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-25: 08:40:00
----------------------------
Postdependant
Created by: hellohime
Pronunciation: Postdependant - Po'dependant, the ST portion of the word is silent.
Sentence: I hid all the pens in the house and watched my postdependant roommate try to actually use their brain to remember thinsg; funniest day ever.
Etymology: A play on Co-Dependant, a person who is dependant on writing things down in order to remember them. To screw this persons day up, just keep all sources of paper or writing implements away from them.
Compulstick
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kum - pulse - stik
Sentence: Jeremy was positively compulstick about writing down all of his tasks, thoughts, goals and thoughts on all sizes and colors of sticky notes.
Etymology: compulsive (someone who cannot stop repeating an action over and over) + stick (as in sticky notes)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
You nailed it!
My comment was meant for Nosila.
CLEARLY, and I agree, Nosilla 'stuck' the landing