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7 years 2 months ago - 7 years 2 months ago #1 by Bek D Corbin
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    • I've had these brewing for a while, and I finally sat down and thrashed out these neologisms:

    VENDREFT: This is the feeling of loss, not quite sorrow, that you feel when you walk down the street and see that a business has closed, even if you've never patronized that business.

    DEBILGELATION: This is the feeling of relief and vindication you get when you walk down the street, see a closed business, and realize that the business is a McDonalds.
    Last Edit: 7 years 2 months ago by Bek D Corbin.
    7 years 2 months ago #2 by E. E. Nalley
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    • NOSLOSTIA: The sudden realization that you have returned to the town you grew up in and it has changed so much you have no idea where you are.
    I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
    Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
    7 years 3 weeks ago - 7 years 3 weeks ago #3 by Amy_Amethyst
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    • NostalgYeah: The feeling you get when you return to the town you grew up outside of, and find that you are very glad that you left long ago.
    A stranger is just a friend that you haven't met yet.
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    7 years 1 week ago #4 by E M Pisek
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    • The feeling of trying to explain to your kids having pointed out that where a Walmart now sits, the lingerie department is where your home had once been after the trailer park had been bought out. True story.
    What is - was. What was - is.
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    • E M Pisek wrote: The feeling of trying to explain to your kids having pointed out that where a Walmart now sits, the lingerie department is where your home had once been after the trailer park had been bought out. True story.

    Is that what you call Wallyrue?
    Adopt my story: here
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    7 years 1 week ago #6 by null0trooper
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    • Walbegone.
    Forum-posted ideas are freely adoptable.

    WhatIF Stories: Buy the Book

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    6 years 4 months ago #7 by Bek D Corbin
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    • FOGERTISE: Mastery of a Skill, Technology or Programming Language that is obsolete, like COBOL.

    BYPRODIGY: Mastery of a Skill, Technology or Programming Language that never caught on, like Rotary Engine Repair
    6 years 4 months ago - 6 years 4 months ago #8 by Valentine
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    • Searsheimer's forgetting what it was that defined your business model.
    Don't Drick and Drive.
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    5 years 2 months ago #9 by Bek D Corbin
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    • Jinxobatics: the uncanny ability of inanimate objects, when dropped, to flip, spin, roll, tumble and otherwise propel themselves into the absolutely hardest place to find or retrieve them from

    Shnookwinked: that strange blindness that keeps you from seeing the thing you left out in the wide open
    5 years 2 weeks ago #10 by Bek D Corbin
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    • A little levity in the face of the lockdown:

    Q-Coon: to settle in for a long 'shelter in place' with all the necessities for a one-person slumber party

    Wuhan Roulette: to ignore the lockdown and go to parties and such, because you're still in college and implicitly invulernable
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