July 9, 2004

silhouette3.JPG From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:

Pertrousorating

Some have commented on my use of 'pertrousorating' ("The fine art of talking through your pants") in a prior post. I came up with this word while studying Latin in high school, an unfortunately long time ago. Rich Hall's 'sniglets' were big at the time and my hallmates and I were running out of synonyms for the constant B.S. we were hearing.

I entertained the idea of using this word for me or my blog a while ago, but I was concerned people would think it was even more off-color than....well, than it is. It's a bit awkward - "The Pertrousorator".

"blogosphere" it ain't, but I'm glad to have made a contribution after all these years.

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Comments
Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on July 9, 2004 4:02 PM

OK, aside from proving true the old axiom, "once a dork always a dork" (a club to which I belong), I'm not sure what this post does. Do you want us to go forth and start using "pertrousorating" in hopes of getting it into the OED 20 years hence?

By the way, the fact that (a) you once were into sniglets, (b) you made up a word like "pertrousorating" in high school, (c) you admit it openly on your blog, (d) you are still using your made up word from high school, and yet (e) you still found someone willing to marry you and (more impressively) bear you seemingly normal children (going by pic of kid) gives my fairly-old heart hope.

I am assuming that there were no dark magics involved in (e). Please correct if wrong.

Posted by: "Mindles H. Dreck" on July 9, 2004 6:31 PM

Liberals! Always calling us dorks when we're trying to have some harmless fun.....

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on July 10, 2004 11:25 AM

Please, no more fake words. Just go look at what is happening on that comment thread. It frightens me.

Posted by: Begbee on July 10, 2004 12:49 PM

My current favorite nonword- Unenjoyment

Posted by: Sean O'Hara on July 10, 2004 3:55 PM

I just don't think "pertrousorating" has the same ring as "proctonumerology" (pulling numbers from one's posterior).

Posted by: "Mindles H. Dreck" on July 10, 2004 4:46 PM

I liked 'pantificating' too, but most people just think it's a typo.

Posted by: Slartibartfast on July 11, 2004 10:37 AM

Wow. These are great!

My favorite (up until now) was cranialrectosis, but it's not on par with the offerings here.

Posted by: triticale on July 11, 2004 11:30 PM

Excuse me. I have to go to the tinklearium.

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