Beach Volleyball and Words I Like May 29, 2008
Every Thursday, I play beach volleyball at urban rec on a work team - they really put the urban into it, as it is basically an empty lot that they’ve trucked sand to. We really aren’t that good, but we have tons of fun and down a couple of drinks. I had to cut this week short though because my foot started killing me. I was on crutches till Monday with a fracture in my foot. It was feeling a lot better, but still sore - I am now realizing that playing volleyball is far from the smartest move I’ve made today.
On a completely unrelated note, I wanted to share with you a really weird quirk Nadia and I have at work. We have a list of words. Magma Words - words that we love - and Verboten Words - words that we hate. So I thought I’d share them with you.
In case you can’t read the picture:
Magma Words
- Attention Currency
- and How!
- Boutique Agency
- Aquatical
- Douchebag
- Emerging Media
- uber
- Superfluously
- Hyperbole
- Pithy
- Tactile
- Googlewhack
- Instantaneous
- Summer
- NKOTB
Verboten Words
- Synergy
- Whatnot
- Marqui
- Drunkorexia
- Stymie
So do you have any words that you love or hate? Let me know and if they’re really good they may make it onto my list.
that is hilarious! - the word thing I mean — umm, what does Googlewhack mean? And while I can see why sy____y would be Verboten, why stymie? I think stymie’s a kinda cool word. Am I a loser for thinking that?
douchebag is one of my all-time favs (and one of my most frequently used ones (and its derivatives - douche, douchey)
Also - magma and FACE. FACE is said in a dismissive / aggressive tone.
@moneycoach Stymie reminds us of something oozing and pussy. Just kinda gross. A couple people have liked that one…just reminds me of nasty things.
@mattkirkey At the office we use the term douchebag at its derivatives all the time. If the word wasn’t so awesome it would totally be overused.
“Gauche.” Has class when you use it, shows smarts and sophistication.
I’ve always been a fan of “cocksure.” I don’t use it a lot, but I’m a fan.
And I’ve just coined my own term, “tweepeating,” which is when you post something to Twitter several times by accident (usually because the load time is so slow).
Tweetpeating FTW!
@jordan I’ve seen you use tweetpeating on twitter and I like it…we should definitely add that to out twitter vocab.
You need to use cocksure in a sentence so I know how to use it:)
I’d love to see aquatical (is that even a word?), douchebag, and NKOTB used in the same sentence. That would be stupendous.
I’m assuming that variants like “douchebaggery” are allowed too?
uber is definitely in my magma vocab now.