Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

New times, new words

Times change, sometimes so fast that language can't keep up. We need new words appropriate for the new circumstances. Here's a start. Please send your contributions. Prurient or scatological words will be accepted only if I really, really like them. I will update this list if I feel like it:

New word: mortcrap
Usage: John Dillinger III murdered his broker Monday after discovering that his huge investment in mortgage-based securities had morphed into mortcrap.

New word: palinizing
Usage: NBC took palinizing to a new level on Thursday, reporting that Sarah Palin's 21-year-old son once violated the lowest standards of human behavior by putting an earthworm on a fishhook and throwing the line into the water, injuring the worm and arousing outrage throughout Alaska.

New Word: idiotocracy
Usage: The preening journalists and deranged politicians who supported the failed mortcrap bailout bill will henceforth be known as the idiotocracy.

New word: republicrat
Bill Clinton continued to formally support Barack Obama Monday while surreptitously working with Republicans on a republicrat alliance that he hopes will sink Obama and alllow Hillary to run again in 2012.

New word: panickypol
Usage: Any politician who tries to scare others into supporting his outlandish, antiamerican proposal, using visions of market crashes and even doomsday, will be known as a panickypol.