Wordie: Madeupical: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:21:12 +0000

Ah, what do they know, uselessness? ;-> Yarb, I can't believe you dreamed about madeupickal in its variant 19th-century spelling! You must be wordieing too hard.

Comment by uselessness, 9 months ago

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:29:58 +0000

Haha! I actually got the opportunity to use madeupical in a business meeting yesterday... unfortunately my coworkers didn't exactly get the reference. :-P

Comment by yarb, 9 months ago

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:22:37 +0000

The other night I dreamt I was reading an obscure novel from nineteen-o-something. In a footnote of this novel, or it might have been non-fiction a la William James, I saw the word "madeupickal", and thought "a-ha! This will be a killer citation!" Then I woke up.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:28:39 +0000

Got that right. :-)

Comment by uselessness, 10 months ago

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:58:03 +0000

Particularly hilarious ones.

Comment by VanishedOne, 10 months ago

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:03:45 +0000

Don't worry about it; misunderstandings just happen sometimes.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:23:09 +0000

Ah, mock-seriously, you say! Now I understand. Apologies if I came off sounding snippy. :-)

Comment by VanishedOne, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:56:13 +0000

Yes, I know you were joking; and I was taking it mock-seriously. Maybe I should use more emoticons, but on this of all sites...

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:52:34 +0000

The originator is me. Uselessness is correct. And I was just joking. See the wink down there? ;-)

And Cthulhu had nothing to do with it; believe me.

Comment by VanishedOne, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:05:39 +0000

There we are: it can be done. Cheers. (Though I do like the Hellenic-sounding one.)

Comment by uselessness, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:53:35 +0000

"Made. Up. Ickle." :-P

Comment by VanishedOne, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:47:37 +0000

Consult the originator?

How can you not have a pronunciation guide for a word? Even if it's 'uncertain', on the model of Cthulhu, that's still information that permits a guide.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:08:58 +0000

But it's a madeupical word, VanishedOne--how can we have a pronunciation guide for a madeupical word? ;-)

Comment by VanishedOne, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:44:05 +0000

We need a pronunciation guide: this is my first time looking at this page, and I'd expected the pronunciation to be mad-yuu'pi-cal.

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:26:53 +0000

I think sniglets were "invented" (maybe not) by Rich Hall, a 1980s-era comedian who used to be on Saturday Night Live. He put out a bunch of books of sniglets and stuff. Some of my favorites (that I still remember) were:
motspur--the one wheel on a shopping cart that won't go the right way
essoasso--a person who avoids a red light by cutting through a corner gas station
blurfle--to be speaking loudly over music, as at a dance club, only to have the music stop suddenly just as you're saying something like "... testicles laminated!"

Comment by rocksinmypockets, 10 months ago

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:10:35 +0000

I just learned the word sniglet, which is a synonym for madeupical, and equally fun to say.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:29:35 +0000

Archive note: the very first mention of madeupical is at nounal. So in ages hence, all will see our brilliance.

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:08:25 +0000

Of course it's real! After all, we made it up, and we're real! Case closed.

Besides, no one ever puts madeupical words on Wordie. Ever.

Comment by uselessness, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:29:43 +0000

Because we've all been saying this word, and nobody had it listed. It's totally real, by the way.