Verboticism: Confiscreate
DEFINITION: n. The creative, yet blatantly illegal use of plastic milk crates, and the latent fear of prosecution associated with this alleged crime. v. To create and build home furnishings using stolen milk crates.
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Milkcratetivity
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: milk cray tet tiv ity
Sentence: His artisitic name was EggNog Au Lait and he was famous for his milkcratetivity. He was not from here...some said he was from the Milky Way. He had designed many pieces of furniture and other art from the lowly plastic milk crate. Every opportunity he stole them from retail and wholesale places, backyards and dumps. When their owners awoke to find them missing, they realized they were evaporated milk crates. The main reason Eggnog was gathering these plastic gems was that he badly wanted to win a world's record. Yes, he was going to create a life-size model of the Eiffel Tower entirely out of milk crates. He finally had enough and started erecting his structure. While he labored on it, a big time promoter offered to pay him for it when he had completed the job, so that he could display it outside his French Restaurant, which lay in a pasture....(which served French fries, French Dip & French Toast). When the structure was complete it was moved to the country, where people could see that the Tower was made from pasturized milk crates. Eggnog skimmed extra money from the project. When the promoter asked him what his profit margin was on milk crate designs, he said, "Oh, just 2%".
Etymology: Milk Crate (Milk crates are square or rectangular interlocking boxes made out of heavy-duty plastic that are used to transport milk and other products from dairies to retail establishments. These crates are often stolen for either personal use or for the plastic that they are made out of) & Creativity (the ability to create)
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COMMENTS:
heehee - galwaywegian, 2009-04-03: 05:19:00
good one - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:35:00
you milked the story for all it was worth! Your whole verbotomy is Cream of the crop! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-04: 09:11:00
Blood-curdlingly punny! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-06: 01:20:00
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Archilactotect
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ark-eh-LAC-to-tekt
Sentence: Bert was a first class archilactotect and having unlimited access to serviceable milk crates he kept himself busy designing and creating many useful if somewhat questionable devices and structures.
Etymology: Blend of 'architect' (the deviser, maker, or creator of anything) and the prefix 'lacto' (a combining form meaning “milk,” used in the formation of compound words)
Blactosemarket
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: blak tose mar ket
Sentence: Eddy Jones likes living on the edge. He likes to think his middle name is Danger, but it is actually Howard. Eddy recycles milk crates and makes them into other objects and sells them. Anyday now he could be caught with crate freight, by the police who he calls Crate Watchers. He is working the blactosemarket very successfully. His latest project is coffins, air-conditioned ones. He markets them as The Crateful Dead.
Etymology: Black Market (an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls)& Lactose (a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk)
Grandlarcendairy
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: grand + larsen + dary
Sentence: Ruben got put in the slammer for 2 years for grandlarcendairy when he was finally caught stealing 100 milk crates from the Dean's Dairy Company.
Etymology: Grand Larceny and Dairy
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COMMENTS:
fantastic - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:33:00
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Cratefuldread
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: krayt full dred
Sentence: They lived on the creative edge. Milkmen and Dairies feared them and none were safe from their criminal activities. Although we now call it recycling, in those days they lived in cratefuldread of prosecution. They were the Dread Heads...
Etymology: Crateful (the quantity contained in a crate) & Dread (fearful expectation or anticipation; be afraid or scared of; be frightened of) & WordPLay on Grateful Dead (American Rock band fronted by Jerry Garcia in the 60's & 70's)
Larcendairy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lärsəndərē
Sentence: When Jill went off to college she didn\'t go through the trauma that some of her friends did buying furniture and everything else that students need. She concentrated on her wardrobe and left the furniture to the larcendairy method. Bookshelves, computer desk & chair, even her bedframe was courtesy of the local convenience store.
Etymology: larceny (theft of personal property) + dairy (containing or made from milk)
Ilemilkrate
Created by: Bughunt
Pronunciation: ill-em-ilk-rate
Sentence: Oh my lord! That guy's is blatantly misusing milk crates! A serious case of ilemilkrate, this is the big scoop!
Etymology: ILlEgal, MILK, cRATE.
Confiscreate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: con-fis-create
Sentence: Lorraine was aghast when she first saw her boyfriend's apartment and found that it was totally furnished with confiscreated milk crates. She wondered, "Should I be concerned that he's a klepto, or content that he's a creative cratecrafter?"
Etymology: Confiscate: steal;seize + create: build, compose
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COMMENTS:
terrific combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:29:00
Great word, mrsk...he stole her heart, so why wouldn't he steal anything else??? - Nosila, 2009-04-03: 23:36:00
nice blending, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-04: 09:01:00
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Crascandalate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: cruh-scan-all-ate
Sentence: Josh was arrested for crascandalating and theft with a deadly glass of milk.
Etymology: crate + scandal
Lactocartanoia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: laktōkärtōnoiə
Sentence: Emily's boyfriend has a wonderful wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling bookcase made entirely of milk cartons. Emily had lactocartonoia. She is convinced that, at any moment, the dairy police are going to break down her door and drag her off to jail. She is also terrified that she might accidentally remove a tag from a pillow or mattress.
Etymology: lacto (of or relating to milk) + carton (a light box or container, typically one made of waxed cardboard or plastic ) + paranoia (a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution)
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COMMENTS:
I think the pillow tags are the worse. I know they scare me. - wayoffcenter, 2009-04-03: 07:33:00
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