TO-DO: each of these should be their own post, with the approp tags linking them together. Eventually!
Blatherskite – (noun) – a person who talks at great length without making much sense. foolish talk; nonsense. “politicians get away all the time with obscurantist blatherskite”
Simpulate – simple simulate? (mine?)
Cromulent – from The Simpsons, one of the teachers (Lisa’s?) describing how “embiggen” is a perfectly acceptable (“cromulent”) word. Which I think it is, but embiggen isn’t. Or maybe it is by now. It is. They both are newly added after first use by The Simpsons.
Ustacould – used to be able to. I actually heard this in Houston TX (Beasley, actually… at Hudson Products??? the shop or production manager used it and I asked about it. that was the guy who was bitten by a spider in a glove in hisgarage. nearly killed him; his arm was paralyzed and he was dragging around a trailer of iv fluids in and some sort of drainage pump out. you know it’s a bad thing when ytou h ave to have a continues drainage powered pump getting the fluids out…)
I know I have written more on this, even found some serious article on the use of the word in Texas and so. what I read matched more or less with what he said. But nothing comes up in local search or
Schmoo – from Uncle Bumblefuck himself. BTW, finally learned that BOLTR means “Bored Of Lame Tool Reviews”, which characterize is messy shop, foul language, no care about advertisers, etc. Still don’t know what “AvE” means, other than “Arduino vs. Evil”. He mentions these sort of accessible microcontrollers (Arduinos, Pis, etc) as “lego blocks for electronics”, and he’s not wrong. Ustabe you’d have to order many, pay lots for a dev board, and the software experience was less than swell. Recall the nonsesne I had to install to try to use a TI mcu, compared to Arduions click & install on Windows, Lnux, and even a web-based version. The dev board lets one wire up all sorts of tests or prototypes; add in the ability to order fabbed, multilayer, populated pcbs for very low cost even in single quantites, all using tools free or even ojline. amazeballs
amazeballs – Joan’s favorite, from the cop sister of Dexter. she had a few other choice curses, but this one’s the most
Skookum – tough, well made, large, honking. Apparently a Northwest FP word. Also from Uncle Bumblefuck.
Yaren’t – you all are not (mine!)
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omphaloskepsis – noun:
1. Contemplation of one’s navel.
2. Complacent self-indulgent introspection.
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