Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative capitalization of Nowheresville
Examples
“I do however think that if we are going to condemn homophobia it has to be applied universally, even if it is only the Western experience growing up in nowheresville and not the experience of a Syrian homosexual growing up in Damascus that one relates to and understands better.”
“One anecdote about living in nowheresville Ohio as he didn't like living in NY - so on the phone a lot to editors - and early on only a party line, so his discussions with Mort Weisinger about comic plots could freak out several old ladies at once!”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Weird Heroes 6 - Byron Preiss
“The deepest prophecy of postmodernism was turning out to be, not Warhol's art commodity factory, or Frank Stella's trademark productions, but Robert Smithson's Non-sites, the "nowheresville" of Passaic, New Jersey treated as an archaeological or paleontological dig.”
“Because there was simply no other reason to be there, nothing to do there, and people went stir crazy and left after six months - right around the time they started to be productive, because they couldn't take the emptiness and loneliness of living in nowheresville.)”
“And knowing what to do with that character led into knowing what to do with two other major characters and a whole major plot line that was in "nowheresville" for a very very long time.”
“In fact, in All the Colors of the Rainbow Mintakan weather engineers on Earth have a violent encounteer with nowheresville USA racist rednecks.”
“Traditionally a nonnarrative, nonlinear genre born of and driven by advances in technology, it is now expected to be nonsensical, even obtuse; to exist in a perpetually free-form state of nowheresville.”
The Wall Street Journal: Video Artist on Pause, Prodigies in Play
“Harp chords, gentle as raindrops on a placid pond, and a lofting soulful cello resonated over the tinny loudspeakers of a nowheresville ice arena.”
“So, pride be damned, he takes gigs in bowling alleys and nowheresville bars and clubs.”
“They helped move Britain from design nowheresville to being the world-famous source of Carnaby Street cool.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nowheresville’.
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A Long, Strange Trip
You'll definitely need a map. Inspired by Son of Groucho's comment on Islets of Langerhans.
slough of despond, pit of despair, den of iniquity, islets of langerhans, hippocampus, boulevard of brok..., canals of hering, hesselbach's tria..., crypts of lieberkühn, angle of louis, circle of willis, traube's space and 102 more...
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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♦ Mia's invisible list ♦
Wordie vocab, wordlets and wordlings, as well as some commenty Wordie threads. Not that you can see anything, mind.
kleptonarcissist, sapiosexual, firewall account, death by tweakage, homoblivious, multishirking, slacktivism, compulsive shoppi..., waambulance, madeupical, godswallop, word apnea and 199 more...
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Useable
penchant, blazonry, beard hair trap, nowheresville, illicit microwaving, not to mention, thank you so very..., authentic, stylized, go with the flow, snuggle
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nuxiy's Words
furbee, grey hat, dingleberrie, paleo, holy see, andorra, caitiffs, prominence, dysgenic, thule, vhemt, lithotint and 37 more...
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Displacemattes
Mysterious places and lands I ought to visit...
antichthon, lubberland, flat earth, shangri-la, dystopia, peristalith, htrae, phaeton, pop star, asgard, melmac, annwn and 78 more...
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Listless
My first Wordie list
nothingist, nowheresville, alienation, whippersnapper, facebooked, blog, blogger, blogist, nihilism, annihilation, indie, film and 42 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nowheresville.
mialuthien Oh, that's a wonderful concept! *adds list* Jul 21, 2008
bilby Never fear, the kind-hearted yarb takes them to his Adoption Agency. Jul 21, 2008
mialuthien They are Wordie orphans, Bilby. What a fate, to be abandoned by some cold-hearted Wordie. Jul 21, 2008
bilby If a 'word' has comments, or was ever listed by someone - even though currently listed by no-one - it remains in the database. These are what we call ghosts. Jul 20, 2008
mialuthien Oh, thanks for the explanation, Yarb! I didn't know that. And it was nice of you to reassure me I wasn't hallucinating, after all :) Jul 20, 2008
yarb Don't fret, mia. Even if the word was listed nowhere, it would stay in Wordie with its comments. And when you have a twice-listed word, deleting one removes it entirely, so it probably was duplicated. Jul 20, 2008
mialuthien I accidentally deleted this word from my list (it seemed that it was listed twice, but that wasn't the case). If Whichbe hadn't listed it, too, this great thread would have been lost completely. Jul 20, 2008
brookdale_chick sounds like where i live...... Jul 19, 2008
bilby Nowesville - An entire town of people who can't stand Wesley Snipes. Jul 17, 2008
dontcry He's a real nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
-The Beatles Jul 16, 2008
gangerh Nowearsville - a town renowned for its nudist camps? Jul 16, 2008
gangerh Nowhearsville - a town of halfway-houses for the newly-cured deaf? Jul 16, 2008
gangerh Where does all this leave nowheresvilleman? Jul 16, 2008
missanthropist Oh. No. We're There, aren't we? Jul 16, 2008
johnmperry There used to be (? still is) a computer manufacturer called Nixdorf. Jul 16, 2008
missanthropist The Who's? Nowherigans? Of Where~Vile? This place likely has something to do with the vanished belongings/appearing random stuff that pops into our basement and hereabouts. I suspects. Reminded of the backyardigans. Jul 16, 2008
bilby Nowhergian. Jul 16, 2008
mialuthien Nowaresville sounds quite appropriate :) What would a villager in Nowheresville be called? I mean, is there a short way to call one? Jul 16, 2008
bilby It even has its own broken down shopping mall, Nowaresville. Jul 16, 2008
mialuthien I imagine nowheresville as a kind of black hole which first swallow people up, then spit them out. Weird, I know. Jul 16, 2008
mialuthien It's where all the weary folks who wish to hide for a while go to? A kind of time-out? You tell me. Jul 16, 2008
gangerh ... assuming of course you mean 'no wheres ville' and not 'now heres ville' because the latter is
.... halfway up the stairs Jul 16, 2008
gangerh .... it isn't really anywhere,
it's somewhere else instead Jul 16, 2008
bilby Where's this? Jul 16, 2008