Verboticism: Shootfooter
DEFINITION: v. To push yourself so hard to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you undercut your own success. n. An impossibly high goal which practically guarantees failure.
Shootfooter
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: shoot foot er
Sentence: daniel was a first class shootfooter, he was known to go 3 steps further than anyone else trying to do his best, then he would realize after he suffered 10 times more pain that anyone else because he'd shot himself in the foot.
Etymology: from shooting ones self in the foot trying to be clever.
Points: 557
Comments: Shootfooter
wordmeister - 2007-01-16: 10:28:00
Hey, I think that this is what this game is all about -- shootfooting. It's kind of like playing chicken with yourself...
erasmus - 2007-01-17: 10:00:00
I can agree with you there. even my job ( I fix computers) is the same. I'm daily trying to do myself out of a job by fixing things.