Verboticism: Dracomicarceration
DEFINITION: n. A punishment which does not fit crime. v. To assign a punishment which is bizarrely inappropriate, and seems totally unrelated to the crime which has been committed.
Dracomicarceration
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: dra-COMIC-are-sur-AY-shun (DRACOMICARCERATE)
Sentence: Judge Mentill-Case was not elected. He was a political apointee who wielded his gavel with wild abandon. Ever since his pet pug was flattened by a Lexus, he delighted in enforcing the hamlet's no-cell-phone driving ordinance. His punishment for a first offender was removal of all glass on the vehicle. Second offense entailed driving with snow chains on all four tires for a year. Third offense was DRACOMICARCERATION-confinement to a Volkswagon Beetle with the doors welded shut. The Judge's career ended when he crashed into a Starbuck's while texting.
Etymology: DRAconic+COMIc+inCARCERATION= DRACOMICARCRATION.....DRACONIC:of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him; Latin Dracon-, Draco, from Greek Drakōn Draco (Athenian lawgiver).....COMIC: causing laughter or amusement, funny, of, relating to, or marked by comedy; Latin comicus, from Greek kōmikos, from kōmos revel(1576).....INCARCERATE: to subject to confinement, to put in prison, to punish; Latin incarceratus, past participle of incarcerare, from in- + carcer prison Date: 1560,
Points: 1181
Comments: Dracomicarceration
Nosila - 2009-03-06: 18:42:00
Here come da Judge...cute story. It took a latte to get rid of that judge!
silveryaspen - 2009-03-06: 19:49:00
Great triple word play!
metrohumanx - 2009-03-06: 20:46:00
Thanks, kids!
metrohumanx - 2009-03-06: 22:39:00
THE BEARS' "CAR CAUGHT FIRE" WINS ALBUM OF THE YEAR AT THE CINCINNATI ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS. On November 26, 2001, just 4 years after being inducted into CEA's Hall of Fame, the Bears won Album Of The Year for Car Caught Fire. Rob Fetters and Bob Nyswonger accepted the award shortly after Rob's solo performance of the Bears' "As You Are".
metrohumanx - 2009-03-06: 22:40:00
www.thebearsmusic.com
metrohumanx - 2009-03-06: 23:55:00
LIVE IT or LIVE WITH IT!
metrohumanx - 2009-03-07: 00:39:00
She was sick and tired of country life. A little country home, A little country folk, Made her blood run cold. Now her mother pines her heart away, Looking for her child in the big black smoke, In the big black smoke. Frailest, purest girl the world has seen, According to her Ma, according to her Pa, And everybody said, That she knew no sin and did no wrong, Till she walked the streets of the big black smoke, Of the big black smoke. Well, she slept in caffs and coffee bars and bowling alleys, And every penny she had Was spent on purple hearts and cigarettes. She took all her pretty coloured clothes, And ran away from home And the boy next door, For a boy named Joe. And he took her money for the rent And tried to drag her down in the big black smoke, In the big black smoke. In the big black smoke. In the big black smoke.
metrohumanx - 2009-03-07: 00:41:00
Sorry about that. I got carried away.
metrohumanx - 2009-03-07: 00:48:00
I'd like to thank the JAMES GANG for providing a very entertaining outlet for the mad ramblings of very talented people..
Nosila - 2009-03-08: 22:26:00
Hear, Hear, metro! It's great to tell people you are in a gang! Respect!
abrakadeborah - 2009-03-25: 14:05:00
The creams rises to the TOP :) You're so creative Metrohumanx!