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DEFINITION: A technological innovation that doesn't work as expected because "normal people" can't figure out how to use it.

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Ohnovation

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: oh-noe-vay-shun

Sentence: Their last software release was the most ohnovative offering yet: simply chock a block with ohnovations! Please, kill me before any more ohnovating goes on.

Etymology: Oh no! (as in "Oh no!, That's not what I frickin' wanted", or "Oh. no. you. didn't.") + innovation

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COMMENTS:

nice one. - galwaywegian, 2007-09-14: 07:29:00

it sounds like Mr. Bill from old Saturday Night Live skits ("Oh no!!) - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 14:54:00

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Crapparatus

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: krap-uh-rat-us

Sentence: The new toaster was such a piece of crapparatus that we couldn't even figure out where to put the toast in.

Etymology: crap + apparatus

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COMMENTS:

great! - galwaywegian, 2007-09-14: 07:28:00

that's fun to say. I'm going to adopt this into my daily lexicon. - younger, 2007-09-14: 09:30:00

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 10:16:00

Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-14: 10:50:00

Hilarious. Voting now. - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:41:00

I toast you: great word. But remember toast is the strangest of all foods: it is eaten in the morning and drunk at night! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-15: 18:27:00

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Repetativeslack

Created by: mandapanda

Pronunciation:

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Inscruticall

Created by: Syzygy

Pronunciation: in-skrew-ti-call

Sentence: After looping through the automated menus, Kip declaired the attempt an inscruticall.

Etymology: Insruitable and Call

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Noverwhelm

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: no-Ver-welm

Sentence: When a packet of "smart dust", along with an instructional manual to rival "War and Peace," arrived at Bob's home he thought that he was about to be at the forefront of technological innovation. But after an hour of technolunacy trying to figure out how to apply the dust to make his house environmentally friendly, Bob started banging his avanthard head against a wall. Finally, reluctantly and noverwhelmed, he switched the vacuum cleaner on, and started sucking up this technoxious nanotechinanity.

Etymology: Blend of Nov(L):new & overwhelm: render helpless

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COMMENTS:

I really like nanotechnicanity - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 12:53:00

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Techtard

Created by: japfilsk8er

Pronunciation: tech-tard

Sentence: confuse on how a device is used.

Etymology: technology , and being dumb, retard

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Hardwhere

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: hard-ware

Sentence: A gazillion pieces of hardwhere had been shifted in the Christmas shopping spree. By 10.00am the next shopping day, the support lines were jammed by callers trying to work out how the coaxial cable was supposed to connect to the 12 pin outlet behind the doodad.

Etymology: hardware + hard (difficult) + where (as in where the heck does this cable go?)

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Misnology

Created by: skeeterzirra

Pronunciation: miss now loh zhe

Sentence: He said that it is foolproof, but that he underestimated the inventiveness of fools, but only one ubergeek has managed to figure it out.

Etymology: Mistaken technology

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