Verboticism: Geekbonics
DEFINITION: n. A pop culture entertainment property, which has transcended itself and become a de facto religion with legions of devotees, prescribed rituals and sacred texts. v. To follow a pop culture icon with unquestioning devotion.
Voted For: Geekbonics
Successfully added your vote for "Geekbonics".
You still have one vote left...
Fanscination
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: fan sih NAY shun
Sentence: Bob developed such a fanscination with Dungeons and Dragons that he changed his name to Dun Jin and used D&D jargon to talk with people he had just met. As in, "Are you lawful evil or chaotic evil? Because you definitely seem evil to me. Not that it's a bad thing...." People he didn't like, he labeled "succubi" and similar terms. His girlfriend broke up with him after she asked him to make love and he responded, "Roll a 20-sider, and 14+ gets the nookie." As she was leaving, he protested, "But you get +2 for experience!"
Etymology: fan + fascination
Cultasy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cul/tas/ee
Sentence: Jenny and Joe met at an 'X-Men' convention in New York last year. The things they love most about their cultasy are the costumes and the chants recited three times a day in hopes that they will come in contact with the natural earth bound x-rays which will transform them like their heros. One of their favourite cultasy parting statements is: "May all the earthbound X-rays find your path today and lead you to freedom, purity and adventure."
Etymology: CULT (a group, or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, or ideal) + FANTASY (wondrous, or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing)
Comicoke
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: Comi - coke
Sentence: Girlfriend.... nope, Job .... nada, Health.... no bueno. But as long as Hermes had his WOW character "LadiesMan", he had all the comicoke he needed.
Etymology: Comicon - cocaine (both addictive and debilitating)
Jedification
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: Jed/i/fi/cation
Sentence: Mmm mused Mr. Yoda, what with the house prices and all the roomy interstellar 2 craft parking spaces round here, undergoing quite the jedification, this area is.
Etymology: Blend of : jedi (star wars religion)+ gentrification (middle classification of an area)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
I was leaning towards the Jedi....good fusion, Punge! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:33:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-12: 15:43:00
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-13: 08:14:00
----------------------------
Enculterism
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: enn-kull-terr-is-uhm
Sentence: I wasn't sure at first, but after studying the teachings of Picard on the Talarians in Season 4, Ep. 4, it became clear to me that enculterism is the truth.
Etymology: Entertainment + cult/culture + suffix ism to denote the act or state of.
Geekbonics
Created by: jermainechambers44
Pronunciation: Geek-bon-nicks
Sentence: Poindexter couldn\'t wait to show off his new found grasp of geekbonics, so he tried to work it in every conversation he could as he mingled with the masses at the annual sci-fi convention.
Etymology: Geek-(a nerd,computer & or movie obbsessed.)Ebonics-(form of slang,made famous by urban youth)
Voted For! | Comments and Points
Nylonerism
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Ni/lone/er/ism
Sentence: It was loners night and Guy was donning his cleanest nylons. "Nylonerism sure does save a lot of time in the launderette." he thought. Now, where'd I leave my bobble.
Etymology: A polycotton blend of 1. Nylon, synthetic material invented in cities on both sides of the Atlantic. 2. Loner, a guy named Jonny who has no mates, one who spends a lot of time alone, perhaps watching obscure TV shows. 3. ism. A suffix familar to various modern movements.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Are you a Nietzchean Nylonilist? - pungineer, 2008-08-12: 13:56:00
Nine out of ten Nyloners say NanoNano - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-12: 14:09:00
Nine out of ten Nyloners say NanoNano - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-12: 14:16:00
nylon pylon xylon - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:39:00
I came, I saw, I spun yarn. - scrabbelicious, 2008-08-12: 15:08:00
----------------------------
Harrypotty
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Ha-ree-pot-ee
Sentence: Ever since the first book came out onto the shevles, kids wanted to be just like their hero Harry Potter. This led to parents everywhere having to pretend that their little darlings had turned them into toads and spent half the day hopping around in the crouched position.
Etymology: Potty(extremely enthusiastic about someone or something) See also Harry Potter books /films
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
You crcked me up again, Tjayzz - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 13:19:00
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-12: 15:42:00
----------------------------
Fanaticult
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: fah-nah-tee-cult
Sentence: The Spockonian Fanaticult was the new religion rivaling Christianity in 101 G.T. [Geek Times].
Etymology: fan + fanaticism + cult
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-19: 10:01:00
----------------------------