lest this make no sense, some samples:
bootsoline
caffeinedoline
charmsoline
cheapsoline
chicagoline
cooksoline
exerciseoline
glamoline
hotoline
no-fun-times-oline
pornoline
prudeoline
reads-a-lot-oline
shortoline
sickoline
sleepsoline
smirksoline
sneaksoline
snideoline
snoboline
stompsoline
tabloidsoline
talloline
treatsoline
tripsoline
trustoline
urbanoline
(and, of course, the ever popular) trampoline
this may appear fantastically vain (yet charmingly ironic, since some hardly apply), but as an english-head, descriptors and conciseness are vital. why wander home dead beat from work and say heavens! i'm feeling awfully rather ill today! when you can plead sickoline! and collapse in bed, no questions asked? it's just more linguistically prudent. because, as hank told us in PI class (perched indian-style atop his chair, looking earnestly into our bleary, 8 a.m. friday morning eyes), you've got to make your words do the work you want them to do. advice well worth the $40,000 price tag. advice that i have just used to justify juvenile prefix play. a perk indeed.
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Sadly, my name is too short and manly to put a prefix to it. The most I get is the suffices(rw?) -ie and -iepoo.
Even if suffices isn't a real word, I will use it with such conviction and purpose that people won't even question it.
as syntaxoline (which isn't quite right, but dictionsoline kind of sucks) i will now leap in and say that it's "suffixes," though really "suffices" would be so much better. you should start a suffices movement... that was going somewhere witty but someone just howled very loudly in the alley and i jumped off the thought train. am apparently not going to finish a single thought with you today! cray-Z.
aha! it's great that my ginormous audience of telemarketer readers might be presently struggling to figure exactly how "binga binga" is so manly, when it seems, at first glance, so "wake me up before you go go." what's the dealio, yo?
My-very-favorite-brunette-bombshelloline.
now I have that zoolander gas station scene in my head. And just now got the pun in trampOline. I never knew.
WAKE ME UP, BEFORE YOU GO-GO!
don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo! with the return of the king oustein i think we need a zoolander night. our lives aren't ridiculously good-looking enough right now. and yes, dread pirate slowgO, though wholly inapplicable, trampoline really is the height of prefixation.
whats a 'tnowcbratt'? let me share my thoughts:
tnowcbratt (teh-NOW-kuh-brot) Noun. Ancient Olininian (from 'tehnau' = huge heap; 'Kuew' = awesome; and 'Brokt' = writingness) definition:
A heaping huge pile of awesome writingness. Said pile can be stored digitally via a computer notebook or impeccably organized in a binder, journal, trapper-keeper, or scrap-book. Or it may just occupy the bottom drawer of your filing cabinet.
Used in a sentence: "Hey Ol!gn, is that a tnowcbratt or are ya just happy to see me?"
TNOWCBRATT: "the nature of which cannot be revealed at this time." origin. the dancing lessons, the nature of which could not be revealed at that time.
but in this instance the literal translation of "huge pile of awesome writingness" is totally applicable since, in its present usage, TNOWCBRATT was a reference to that huge pile of awesome writingness- the cupcake&bombsybox. and you can bet your mismatched socks there's some impecable organization going on in that trapper-keeper.
and i very much expect to hear you start bandying this dear word around. when we're all clinging to the wall at the party tomorrow, let's do loudly pontificate on the virtues of TNOWCBRATT.
Zoolander without me? Sadness. But you guys don't realize what a good Eugoogalizer I am.
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