Editor's Corner

I borrowed today’s article from an old Richard Lederer column in the San Diego Union Tribune. I hope you enjoy it! (I removed a few just for space, but the whole list is on the website below.)

Readers Submit Snappy Sniglets To Snicker At – Verbivore

A stroodle is “the annoying piece of cheese stretching from a slice of hot pizza to one’s mouth.” A mustgo is “any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so long it has become a science project.” And an ignosecond is “that overlapping moment when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, ‘My keys are in there!’”

These are three examples of the weirdly incisive world of Sniglets, the Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Dictionary created by comedian Rich Hall 30 years ago. Hall defines a sniglet as “any word that doesn’t appear in a dictionary, but should.”

• puff puppies. the wispy accumulations of dog hair on the floor that resemble dust bunnies. popduds. the unpopped corn kernels left at the bottom of your microwave popcorn bag. lipstuck. the lipstick print on your wine glass. — Gail Rosemeyer, Carlsbad
• sweatstache. the beads of sweat that form on your upper lip when your salsa is a tad too warm. gashole. the person who fails to pull to the forward pump when refueling. — Debi Buchanan, Fashion Hills
• blueper. embarrassing momentary sighting of adult content when channel surfing premium cable channels in family company. escalexia. stumbling attempt to take first steps up on a stopped escalator. cellupedia. the aimless meandering of a cellphone talker in intense conversation. — Bradford Bruce, San Diego

And honorable mention to all:

• syruptitious. sneaking more flavoring on your waffle — Doug Keeling, Oceanside
• emailancholy. the dejection you experience when you open your email inbox and there is nothing there. — Steve Holder, College Area
• cellnesia. the malady whereby you need to call your cellphone in order to find it, hoping it isn’t turned off or battery dead. — Nancy Britt, Lakeside
• muttchkin. a tiny toy terrier of questionable ancestry. — Dave & Janel Roti, Poway
• adsnot. the clear, elastic, squishy material used to seal junk mail fliers and to adhere sample credit cards to bank advertising. — Salvatore Scafidi, Mission Hills
• tripblock. the bar of concrete that cars pull up to in a parking space and that pedestrians inevitably stumble over. — Eric Taylor, Hillcrest
• press-one-itis. the sore finger you get trying to reach a real person on the phone. — Joan Bryant, Coronado
• snortgust. the act of inadvertently snorting liquid, such as milk, into one’s nose while drinking it. — Jeanne Cherbeneau, La Jolla
• teendenytis. a characteristic of your 16-year-old, who forgot to refill your gas tank, or who “didn’t” put that ding in your new car. — May Reeves, Oceanside
• lateitude. A snarky excuse for one’s tardiness. — Annette Williams, Ramona
• box sloth. a person who searches through every movie title at a DVD vending machine, no matter how many people are waiting in line behind them. — Shawn Murphy, San Diego
• flitter. the mysterious debris that flies out of the bed of a pick-up truck and swirls down the freeway. — Ned Paterson, Carlsbad
• squinthogs. people who fail to turn down their high beams when driving at night, blinding the oncoming traffic. — Kelley Dupuis, Chula Vista
• grammo. a violation of the rules of grammar, on the order of typo. — Woody Wilson, Del Mar

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