Vuvuzealot: (n.) An enthusiastic practitioner of the South African vuvuzela, especially in relation to the World Cup, as in "I watched the whole game and came away feeling like I'd spent an hour and a half with my head stuck in a beehive, thanks to the vuvuzealots in the crowd. Props to them, though...the sound never let up for a single freaking minute. It takes an impressive level of dedication to your instrument to pay a fuzzillion dollars for tickets to a World Cup match and spend the whole time you're there blowing that freaking horn."

To listen to the delightful sound-stylings of a masterfully-played vuvuzela, click here: http://www.vuvuzela.fm/

For a moving tribute to the instrument - film classics played on the vuvuzela - click here:
http://gizmodo.com/5587304/the-vuvuzelas-swan-song

Wittyknot: (n.) A person who thinks he or she is extremely witty, but whose torturous and labored attempts at wit leave people groaning, as in "that wittyknot tries so hard to be funny and clever, but oh man, it's just so painful to listen to. Most of it isn't funny - just lame - but he keeps going on and on about it, getting all tangled up trying make people see how clever he is."

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Bland-aid: (n.) A plain, generic-looking adhesive bandage, as in "I took off the bland-aid that I got from work as soon as I got home, only to realize that we only have SpongeBob SquarePants Band-Aids...so that's why I've got Patrick on my finger. Very professional, I know."

Quotes we love...

"When you open your mind to the impossible, sometimes you find the truth."

Walter Bishop

"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Sherlock Holmes

Fictional guys are so cool.

fuzzillion: (n.) an indeterminately, and indeterminable, large number, as in "nobody is saying anything, but that acquisition must have cost us a fuzzillion dollars, what with one thing and another, and it has been nothing but trouble for us."

wicketsploitation: (n.) The thoroughly despicable gouging of US-based cricket fans who have to pay a television company a substantial amount of money to see what everyone else in the world gets to watch for free on YouTube, as in "I was all set to watch cricket on YouTube, but it's not available in the US! I have to buy a $60 package from some TV company just to watch IPL matches! It's blatant wicketsploitation! Well... there's one willow that I won't mind seeing chopped down to make cricket bats!!"

teizure: (n.) the small convulsive jump that results from being tickled, as in "he just gave my knee a little tickle and it was all I could do to keep from having an obvious teizure in the middle of the meeting."