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DEFINITION: To submit a resume, letter of intent, or proposal for an opportunity that's just perfect for you, and then to get absolutely no response. Nothing.
Verboticisms
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Frasume
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: frai-su-may
Sentence: It sucks when you get a fresume.
Etymology: failed+resume
Snubmit
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation: snuhb-MIT
Sentence: Tom turned in his application with perfect faith in his immaculate resume, only to be dealt a devastating blow when he realized he only snubmitted the form in vain.
Etymology: snub + submit
Voidmail
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: void-mail Can't make it any easier than that.
Sentence: Hannah compulsively applied for all of the vacant positions that appeared in the Little Piddlington Gazette, but had not yet received even an acknowledgement. She blamed it on voidmail, a strange virus that had migrated from email to snail mail. But the real problem was that Hannah's reputation was well known by all the employers in Little Piddlington. No one was prepared to take on her gloomy mien and manic depression tempered with occasional bouts of tourette's syndrome.
Etymology: voicemail + void
Nonrelaytification
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: non/relayt/if/act/ion
Sentence: Human Relations at our company is known for nonrelaytifcation causing many potential clients anxiety attacks.
Etymology: non/none, relayt/relations(as in human relations), if/maybe,maybe not, cat/action, ion/satisfaction
Responselessness
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: rehs-pohns-lehs-nehs
Sentence: The responselessness rid him of the remaining life he had as a sanitary engineer.
Etymology: response + -less [none] + -ness [noun]
Dismissappointment
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: dis-miss-a-point-ment
Sentence: 160 unanswered applications later, Jack D. Ripper could not fathom his run of dismissappointment. "Why don't they call me?" he whined.
Etymology: dismiss + disappoint + appointment + miss
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COMMENTS:
I like the play on words. - texmom, 2007-06-27: 22:25:00
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Expectashunned
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ex/pec/ta/shunned
Sentence: His hopes were high, the job description was written for him, but unfortunately he was expectashunned out of this perfect opprotunity.
Etymology: expectation + shunned
Perfectascrew
Created by: kikiec83
Pronunciation: PUR-FECK-AH-SKRU
Sentence: While Egor believed a "Carrie" theme was incredibly appropriate for their senior prom, the student body exec board's immediate revocation of his invite was an apparent perfectascrew.
Etymology: Middle English parfit, from Anglo-French, from Latin perfectus, to carry out, from per- thoroughly to make, do; scrue, usually vulgar, fucked, rejected
Norrespondence
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: No-res-pawn-dense
Sentence: I was saddened to realize I was "too old" for the job. After 40 years in college training in lifeguarding, it turns out the only qualifications you need are youth and looks.
Etymology: Correspondence (mail) + no response (without an answer)
Applibilious
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: ap-li-BIL-yuhs
Sentence: Philip became applibilious whenever he didn't receive a rejection letter. The only thing he hated worse than failure was the failure to fail properly.
Etymology: application + atrabilious
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COMMENTS:
The sentence did it for me,have my vote 8-) - grasshopper, 2007-06-27: 12:41:00
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Comments:
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 01:23:00
Fealtility
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 07:04:00
Hey James, my word isn't showing up.
petaj - 2007-06-27: 07:24:00
Nor mine.
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 08:01:00
Perhaps they've been kidnapped by a nounja.
Verbotomy - 2007-06-27: 08:25:00
The lost words have been rescued... ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 08:42:00
Oh thank goodness. They were too young to be wandering about on their own. Something appears to be wrong with the Rankings page. I see some folks who verbotomized with only 4 points.
Verbotomy - 2007-06-27: 13:04:00
Hey Purple, I have updated the score so that it is correct now. I will be watching it to see the Double Verbotomy introduces any other bugs ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 13:54:00
Thanks James!
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:01:00
Hmm... my word's not there, either. No word means no votes. Not that I would've gotten any.
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:02:00
Never mind that last comment. Very strange.
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:02:00
Wait... it's missing again.
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:12:00
Wait... it's missing again.
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