Wordnik.com: The Several Stages of Wordie Addiction: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 4 months ago

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:25:15 +0000

I (ahem) rephrased it a bit to make it shorter--so far it hasn't borked anything. See what you think. :-)

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 4 months ago

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:10:23 +0000

[Actually enjoys listening to friends' feeble complaints about the English language then rephrasing it using the wierdest words from wordie]... probably too long to add. But I assure you, it is not an insane urge to enter hideously long words in an attempt to bork wordie!

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:23:03 +0000

*bows* Milud.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:19:34 +0000

Good catch. :-)

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:10:23 +0000

attend pubs that keep the Shorter Oxford Dictionary. See antefluance.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:04:54 +0000

Thanks, all--great ideas. Ah, it's nice to be among friends. :-)

You know, when I crack a Wordie joke among non-Wordies, it's usually followed by a brief silence, then this:

Other person: "Wordie?"

Me: "Uhm...yes."

Other person: "I thought so. It's weird enough."

Comment by fbharjo, 9 months ago

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:45:38 +0000

"when you dream of the making the wrong turn on the turnpike - autobahn (autobonding??) - beyond the pale." (As Bugs Bunny said "I knew I should have made a left turn in Albuquerque." Hare meets Herr 1944) That a possible entry in a word list, isn't it? word-offs??

Comment by chained_bear, 9 months ago

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:36:22 +0000

I do that a couple times a week. :) And don't bother explaining the joke—nobody else will get it.

Although... come to think of it... Today I said to my S.O. that something sucks out loud on toast with butter, and S.O. laughed hysterically. Imagine if I'd not been too lazy to add "lingonberry." So it cuts both ways. *shrugs*

Reesetee, a suggestion? Tagging spree?

Comment by plethora, 9 months ago

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:24:16 +0000

I think we've all been there, dc.

Comment by dontcry, 9 months ago

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:33:37 +0000

Cracking a "wordie-insider" joke and laughing at it before realizing that you're the only one at the party who gets it -- then continuing to enjoy it anyway.

Comment by frogapplause, 9 months ago

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:18:13 +0000

Looking in the telephone directory for WAA (Wordie Addiction Anonymous).

Comment by Prolagus, 9 months ago

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:11:01 +0000

After a comment frindley made on my facebook profile, I have the feeling I should, ahem, confess that I bought a book for my next Wordie list. (*blushes*)

Comment by Prolagus, 11 months ago

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:37:50 +0000

Maybe something like My unconscious calls me by my Wordie screen name?

Comment by dontcry, 11 months ago

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:26:42 +0000

When you dream about yourself and your name, in the dream, is your wordie screen name. The dream has nothing what-so-ever to do with wordie.

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:45:15 +0000

Huh. Makes me wonder how many other words I've been misreading.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:43:13 +0000

Don't think so, jenn. As far as I remember, it started out with this name.

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:40:15 +0000

Out of curiosity, has the list name changed over time? Didn't this used to be the seven stages of wordie addiction?

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:33:59 +0000

You know how it is. If you haven't been In Country, you just don't get it.

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:04:44 +0000

Thanks, man. *sniff* I feel a little better just talking about it -- um, to you, not my spouse...

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 May 2008 19:04:29 +0000

Wow, dontcry. You have it bad. Welcome. :-D

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 May 2008 18:07:19 +0000

Feeling guiltier about not commenting on wordie than not commenting on what your spouse just said to you.

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:39:07 +0000

[I call 'lists' facebook groups].

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:15:03 +0000

You have my sympathies, Prolagus--from a fellow sufferer. :-)

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:24:17 +0000

I think I have a chronic refresher syndrome.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:08:00 +0000

Welcome, muamor. As you can see, you're in excellent company. :-)

Comment by muamor, about 1 year ago

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:51:42 +0000

'Wordholism´ is a severe disease.
I humbly bow in front of this list. :o)
Hello, my name is Lea and I'm a wordholic.

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:49:39 +0000

Well, the editing in this case seemed to take a lot of the fun out of your comments...so I apologize. But they had to be preserved for wordieternity, you see.

Comment by sionnach, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:57:37 +0000

Oh, noooo ... if I would of realized my prose was to be immortalized here, I could of tried to be less prolix. Bollix!

FWIW, the erstwhile problem of not being able to edit one's most recent comment seems to be fixed. Thanks, John! Wot a klassy site is wordie.

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:21:23 +0000

Wow. I'm in excellent company, it seems....Sionnach, I hope your suggestions don't break Wordie. I had to do some serious editing before Wordie would accept them as "words." :-)

Anyone here know CPR? We need to revive mollusque!

Comment by sionnach, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:52:23 +0000

Guilt experienced while engaging in "normal" social Thanksgiving activities that the time would be better served devoted to Wordie.

Followed by a grim sense of resignation that one will miss out on the juiciest post-holiday comments due to the obvious impossibility of catching up on six days of scintillating wordie badinage.

Comment by arby, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:15:49 +0000

Mounting experiments solely to provoke WeirdNet - see peeler for context.

Comment by mollusque, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:01:49 +0000

Then there's withdrawal symptoms caused by inability to keep up your 100 word a day average because the major grant proposal due next week precludes you from doing more than keeping up with comments. It's like... like...wordasphyxia...*turns blue, falls off chair*

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:40:24 +0000

Ah, yes. Word apnea. Lucky it didn't progress to wordsomnia, mollusque.

I'd say making word lists on the train instead of reading qualifies. Even worse, though, is making word lists at work instead of working. Guilty as charged. (But I did skip lunch to make up for it.)

Comment by mollusque, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:31:51 +0000

All known words or all possible words? (At least I've passed the word apnea stage. I woke up six times one night the first week.)

Is one of the stages making word lists on the train instead of reading?

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:20:51 +0000

We can't possibly--what are you saying, arby? We can't possibly list all words??

*slumping off in existential despair*

Comment by arby, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:53:33 +0000

How about [acceptance that you can't possibly list all words], or do we never reach that stage??

I frequently suffer from rage at forgetting words to add due to being AFC (Away From Computer). I think that's what Wordie Mobile is supposed to help me with, if I could only remember that it exists!

Ah, irony.

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:56:01 +0000

Haha! I go away for a weekend and come back to a herd of fun comments! Gotta love it.

FWIW, John, I was having that trouble too--and also, in some cases, I was unable to edit comments at the top of lists. Haven't tried it again recently, though.

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:17:35 +0000

John (and co.):
No, I don't mind when y'all call me c_b. If it's easier to type you can just say CB.

Re: the list I was trying to delete. I tried it once more and it took a while, but the deletion worked, it was gone next time I logged in. If I figure out another one I'd like to get rid of, I'll happily test it for you Monday between 8 and 4 eastern. :)

Comment by john, over 2 years ago

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:15:38 +0000

jennarenn and c_b, I think I just fixed this. Could we coordinate a time to test? In case it's list deletion that's causing the server to seize up, and I didn't fix it, I'd like to be around when you try it, so I can put things right if necessary. I'm traveling tomorrow, but maybe sometime monday? Please email me, if you wouldn't mind scheduling a quick test.

Comment by jennarenn, over 2 years ago

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:28:22 +0000

c_b, the same thing happened to me. I ended up leaving the list.

Comment by john, over 2 years ago

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:24:58 +0000

c_b (do you mind when we call you c_b, chained_bear?), you might have given me a clue in tracking down a bug that's been driving me *craaazzzzy*. every once in a while the wordie server loses its mind: the load average goes through the roof, and it becomes either really slow or doesn't respond at all. I know it's being caused by a rogue query--some database operation that uses way too much memory and/or never completes. i haven't been able to find it, but you just gave me some good places to look. so thanks, i hope :-)

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:32:04 +0000

Yeah, me too! Actually I've been trying to delete one in particular, but every time I do it, I get the "wait while Wordie thinks for a minute" sign, and then the whole thing freezes up. Even if it's open in another tab at the same time (I'm bad that way...), even that tab won't work. Am I breaking Wordie?!

p.s. skipv, there's always room for one more. ;) (retort, I mean)

Comment by palooka, over 2 years ago

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:22:21 +0000

That's another good issue jennaren - having a great list idea that just doesn't work out in the end. I have a number of clunker lists I should delete.

Comment by jennarenn, over 2 years ago

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:49 +0000

palooka, you are spot on. I responded to my dry period by deleting lists.

Comment by skipvia, over 2 years ago

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:24:32 +0000

And by then you have forgotten your retort...

Comment by skipvia, over 2 years ago

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:17:47 +0000

And how about the sense of despair when you have a good retort for chained_bear and Wordie is temporarily unavailable--will return shortly and it returns, but not shortly?

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:16:54 +0000

Don't forget [anger that you can't possibly list them all]. Usually preceded by [denial that you can't possibly list them all].

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:16:03 +0000

Ha! Yes, palooka, and that's when you catch up on comments! :)

Comment by palooka, over 2 years ago

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:32:23 +0000

There's also "Holy shit, I just ran out of list ideas!" That stage is similar to an artist's dry period.

Comment by trivet, over 2 years ago

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:43:25 +0000

What about the vergerhade dreams?