Ten Words that Don't Exist but Should ... (ty to *Wildman)

Parents need more words to describe the weird things that happen to them on a regular basis.
Here are some suggestions.

1. AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks'trus)adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

2. CARPETUATION (kar pet' u a shun)n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

3. DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v. To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow 'remove' all the germs.

4. ELBONICS (el bon'iks) n. The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.

5. UNDUST (un dust')n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.

6. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun)n. The act of manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side.

7. PEPPIER (peph ee ay')n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper.

8. PHONESIA (fo nee' zhuh)n. The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.

9. LATTEBLOW (la tay' blow)v. Unintentional expusion of milk through the nose during a laugh.

10. TELECRASTINATION (tel e kras tin ay' shun)n. The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.

Note: I have no idea where these items originated. If one of them came from your fertile mind or hapless life, then let me know and I'll say that you claimed credit for it.

One of my pet peeves is when people say un-thaw. Think about it....

omg Mum, I had more fun trying to pronounce them then anything else! LOL

AND unthaw is a word!!!! It's not the right word to use with meat...but it's a word. I means to become liquid or goo (or something like that) hehehe

well here is the scenerio where I see it used all the time. I QA a government contract that provides service to our WWTP (waste water treatment plant) well we had some tanks that were frozen solid, and they needed to THAW them out so they could pump the water out, and fix the cracks in the concrete..


People kept saying, "we need to get it un-thawed soon" to thaw means to go from frozen to not frozen. now what exactly is un-thaw.. hehe.. think about it. Basically they were asking to make it frozen...you gotta think about it for a second, then it sinks in.. I love to give the engineers crap over it.

lol, hard to pronounce

rofl too funny
Altho I find it sad that sometimes I do that thing with the vacuum.

adri so do i. that and the 'call someone and forget'

also, i could 'add' one?
Non-foodables items that go for a party that are not edible items (ie paper plates, cups, napkins etc)...my sis whenever i have a party tells me she'll bring the 'non-foodables'