Archive for the ‘reader submissions’ Category

sm| correctify (v.)

May 6, 2008

this one comes from sarah when she worked at kiehl’s. i was reminded not to forget it in this recent e-mail:

“oh, don’t forget correctify … that’s the one that J used to always say … frank thought maybe she was actually a genius—cuz it’s a pretty good word … too bad she didn’t realize she had made it up.”

this one’s tricky. derived from error and ignorance it brilliantly blends two synonyms into a superlative: tweek, fix, correctify. to be reserved for the most extreme fuck-ups: financial, legal, cosmetic surgery, teen parties when used to its full potential.

contextual use:

“…Bear Stearns just imploded and Warren Buffet correctified the fall by purchasing all remaining stock for $15 billion.”

“…Sarah, I don’t mean to correctify you, but the tangerine-banana candles don’t go with the pine-pond moss ones.”

mja| field report

April 29, 2008

informant maggie allen, of corn on the macabre, submitted these gems this afternoon:

mistake sauce (n.)
semen; specifically refers to unwanted baby batter that gets all up in there and makes you pregnant.

whisker pudding (n.)
female genitalia

fandal (n.)
way too excited, alcohol-driven appreciator of college athletics who expresses his/her excitement for a national championship by destroying private and public property in the process. see also: fandalism.

spic-lit (n.)
in a library, the spanish language fiction section.

negromance (n.) / negromance (adj.)
the burgeoning african-american romance genre in contemporary fiction; see also: negromance (adj.).

“…where all the negromance novels at?”

jb| field report

April 26, 2008

smart jodi invented these golden nuggets:

daisy dykes (n.)
knee-length denim cut-offs

can liners (n.)
dumpy big girl underwear

cookie cutters (n.)
jeans that create camel toe/are pulled up too high

jimmin’s weans (n.)
typically lee brand full-seat taper jean that comes to rest just below the ankle; often stone-washed; (etymology: from “women’s jeans“).

american man strand (n.)
a comb-over situation

brahm stroker (n.)
internet vampire; a self-imagined sexual dark lord preferring the 13 and under crowd who admires poison rings, purple velvet, long hair, candle-melt wine bottles, one dangly earring, one or more long fingernails, internet alter-egos.

tidy little prophet (n.)
alan greenspan

beau-flex (n.)
muscle-y, meathead boyfriend; invented by KitMit.