Verboticism: Sillustrator

'When I was your age, all I had was a lead pencil and a wooden brain!'

DEFINITION: A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity.

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Sillustrator

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: SIL-uh-strey-ter

Sentence: A sillustrator is a person who, when asked by his son for the latest computer, blurts out "If necessity is the mother of invention, how do all the unnecessary gadgets, like computers, get invented?"

Etymology: Blend of silly & illustrator

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Comments: Sillustrator

silveryaspen - 2008-01-03: 16:00:00
Chuckling over your fun word that is right on the definition. The alliteration of the s's the ll's the t's and r's ... even makes it fun to say!

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