Office.
Iceland.
Officeland.
I'm pitching a spinoff of the American Office television program.
It's also a spinoff of the British Office.
It takes place somewhere in between.
Reykjavik.
Vicinity.
Reykjavicinity.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Famenesia
Fame.
Amnesia.
Famenesia.
When becoming a celebrity, sometimes one forgets one's friends, or the little people, or forgets that one's friends are not little people, which ironically makes the celebrity seem like a smaller person.
Celebrity.
Itty-bitty.
Celebritty-bitty.
Amnesia.
Famenesia.
When becoming a celebrity, sometimes one forgets one's friends, or the little people, or forgets that one's friends are not little people, which ironically makes the celebrity seem like a smaller person.
Celebrity.
Itty-bitty.
Celebritty-bitty.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Autopsy-Turvy
Autopsy.
Topsy-Turvy.
Autopsy-Turvy.
"Well, that's why he died. He has feet where his head should be."
"Doctor, I think his body is just facing the other way."
"Ah, then THAT's why he died. He should have been facing the right way."
Encore.
Coroner.
Encoroner.
Topsy-Turvy.
Autopsy-Turvy.
"Well, that's why he died. He has feet where his head should be."
"Doctor, I think his body is just facing the other way."
"Ah, then THAT's why he died. He should have been facing the right way."
Encore.
Coroner.
Encoroner.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Chamomeleon
Chamomile.
Chameleon.
Chamomeleon.
Which one of these words is hiding in the other?
Either way, it's relaxing, isn't it?
Or no?
Camouflage.
Agita.
Camouflagita.
Chameleon.
Chamomeleon.
Which one of these words is hiding in the other?
Either way, it's relaxing, isn't it?
Or no?
Camouflage.
Agita.
Camouflagita.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Genee-Jerk
Genie.
Knee-Jerk.
Genee-Jerk.
Don't react immediately when a magical being tells you you have three wishes.
First, make sure it's not one of those vindictive ones that will purposefully misinterpret your words to give you literally what you asked for but figuratively big problems.
e.g. You ask to be the richest person in the world, so the genie kills everyone else.
Genie.
Genocide.
Genie-cide.
Also, it might not even be a genie, but the devil in disguise trying to steal your soul.
If that's the case, go through all the motions and then when he tries to claim it, you can say, "No, I said you could have my SOLE. Of my shoe. Take the whole thing. In fact, take both. I'm feeling magnanimous."
Genie.
Generous.
Genie-rous.*
Then you just go to the genie and ask for a new pair.
And then he gives you a piece of fruit.
Which is way more delicious than losing your soul.
Genie.
Needless to Say.
Geneedless to Say.
* That one wasn't actually even about the genie, sorry.
Devil.
Illegitimate.
Devillegitimate.
Knee-Jerk.
Genee-Jerk.
Don't react immediately when a magical being tells you you have three wishes.
First, make sure it's not one of those vindictive ones that will purposefully misinterpret your words to give you literally what you asked for but figuratively big problems.
e.g. You ask to be the richest person in the world, so the genie kills everyone else.
Genie.
Genocide.
Genie-cide.
Also, it might not even be a genie, but the devil in disguise trying to steal your soul.
If that's the case, go through all the motions and then when he tries to claim it, you can say, "No, I said you could have my SOLE. Of my shoe. Take the whole thing. In fact, take both. I'm feeling magnanimous."
Genie.
Generous.
Genie-rous.*
Then you just go to the genie and ask for a new pair.
And then he gives you a piece of fruit.
Which is way more delicious than losing your soul.
Genie.
Needless to Say.
Geneedless to Say.
* That one wasn't actually even about the genie, sorry.
Devil.
Illegitimate.
Devillegitimate.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Tic-Tactic
Tic-Tac.
Tactic.
Tic-Tactic.
How to get someone with bad breath to stop doing that.
Halitosis.
Cease and Desist.
Halitosease and Desist.
Tactic.
Tic-Tactic.
How to get someone with bad breath to stop doing that.
Halitosis.
Cease and Desist.
Halitosease and Desist.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Ventriloquisdom
Ventriloquist.
Wisdom.
Ventriloquisdom.
Behind every great man is another man with his hand in that first man's butt.
Also the first man is made of wood, and doesn't have to be a man.
The second man doesn't have to be a man either.
This stuff is hard to learn. You'll never find a book called "Ventriloquists for Dummies."
Mannequin.
Quintessentials.
Mannequintessentials.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Sincidious
Sin City.
Insidious.
Sincidious.
I'm in Vegas this week, and I came up with a new word to describe it.
(It also coincidentally sounds like there's a "hideous" in there somewhere.)
Coincide.
Hideous.
Coincideous.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Februaryan
February.
Aryan.
Februaryan.
Someone who really hates Black History Month.
African.
Anger.
Africanger.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Decadequate
Decade.
Adequate.
Decadequate.
It's 2010, the start of a new ten-year period!
Or it's actually the end of the last ten-year period, because when you count to 10 starting with 1*, you don't get there until you get to 10. And then the next 10 starts with 11.
Don't be mad. Or do. Let it out.
Math and I are here for you.
Eleven.
Venting.
Eleventing.
* I'm told there is no year 0 (no Chinese year of the goose egg**).
Of course, time is relative and anyone can call anything whatever they like, but according to the system that we're using, there's no number 0, so we started with 1 and finish with 10, unless there was a 9-year decade somewhere in the past two-thousand years.
Nonade?
Adept.
Nonadept.
Or, if some amount of time was added to or subtracted from each year or decade as necessary to get us to the point we're at now, such that 2010 can be the first year of a new decade.
Arithmetic.
Meticulous.
Arithmeticulous.
Which I'm fine with, either way, if that's how people want to go.
I'm agreeable. Especially when the issue doesn't really matter.
Flexible.
Bull.
Flexibull.
** Goose egg means zero, right?
So then egg definitely came before chicken.
Just not necessarily chicken egg.
Fowl.
Philosophy.
Fowlosophy.
(See also Breakfastidious.)
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