So apparently there's this film coming out tomorrow about some family called "The Sampsons" or "The Simpsons" or something. You probably haven't heard much about it, as the company producing the film (they're named after an animal, it's like WOLF or FOX) doesn't have very much money for promotion, certainly not enough to renovate entire convenience stores across the United States to look like convenience stores in the film or to renovate a downtown bar in Toronto to look like the bar in the film.
Apparently, though, the Simpsons gang are big fans of Torontoist, and courtesy of Cornerstone Promotion, we have some free stuff to give away to our readers. How nice of them!
The Grand Prize is, in ascending order of greatness: a movie poster autographed by the film's composer, Hans Zimmer; a limited edition doughnut soundtrack (pictured); and...wait for it...a magnet. Bananas! The first runner-up will receive the regular edition of the soundtrack, a movie poster, and magnet, while the second runner-up will get a poster and a magnet.
In spite of its relative unknown-ness, The Simpsons has nonetheless created some gem words and introduced them into society at large (like "meh," "craptacular," and the like), so your task to win the prize is simple: invent a new word, and tell us its definition in the comments. (You must, then, be a registered user of Torontoist to win.)
The contest ends at midnight on Friday, August 3, and we'll pick our favourites over the weekend. Good luck!
The contest is now closed. Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to everyone for entering!
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blogerfeld: To opine pompously and unnecessarily flamboyantly on a website while wearing dark glasses, a high collared white shirt and a black suit (at all times).
Hello!
My new word invention (on behalf of my daughter) is "wormimi". A wormimi is defined as a worm or worm-shaped object that displays human characteristics.
WORMIMI!
Thank you,
Vils
buzzophobe: A person who cringes when someone uses words like "folksonomy" or "blogosphere" unironically.
My fiancee came up with this one: overcoldification, for when a building, bus or subway has the air conditioning blasting way too cold, forcing one to wear a sweater or jacket indoors in the hot summer months.
omnifficient - a corporate buzzword meaning efficient in all areas. Used mostly by executive level douche bags.
Example: All great CEOs pro-actively think outside the box for ways to make their company omnifficient.
Too lazy to sign up but the contest looked too fun to pass on.
Squareular: describing something normally roundish as having square-like properties. (example: "her glasses don't look like mine at all! they're more squareular.")
streetkarma [alt spelling: streetcarma]
The ability to show up at the streetcar stop just as it arrives. Using up all your good streetkarma results in a period of bad streetkarma, ie. having to wait for half an hour outside Sneaky Dees for the 511 Bathurst at 1am in January.
Used in a sentence: "Sorry I'm late, I had horrible streetkarma on the way over."
Hambivalent:a vegetarian who occasionally eats bacon.
"Permastudent" is my new word.
Jayed. (rhymes with "raid")
adjective:
To have had enough beer to be very hungry, but to have had enough beer to be too lazy to prepare/search out food for yourself.
e.g.: "I'm jayed."
etymology: from "J", as in Homer J. Simpson
Hi! My new invented word is futzpa (pronounced footz-pa)
It means a person who forgets their password.
Undiculous
The polar opposite of ridiculous.
Also
So ridiculous that it nearly implodes on itself.
Poopahoosifits
n. a fit of uncontrollable laughter brought on by nothing in particular
Usage(from my Urban Dictionary entry):
1. My easily amused friend experiences an instance of poopahoosifits as least twice a day.
2. As the professor began her mind-numbing lecture, we all broke into poopahoosifitses.
Hello,
My word is Excellemplary.
Defnition: something so outstanding that it is deserving of emulation no questions asked.
btw, it would be nice to hear it said by Mr.Burns as he taps his fingertips together!
Dublaeso (verb):
To be dying for a living.