30 Hour Abs

I won’t say I recommend this, but if you spend 30 hours puking your brains out, your abdominal section will be much firmer than before. And you’ll lose weight too.

Or you could just order a pizza from Dominos.

What’s your favorite term for ralphing?

Filed under: Exercise, Puke, Sick, Weight Loss, Word Play

Googol

Not a typo, but rather the origin of the brand we now know as Google.

Google was a deliberate misspelling of the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google’s use of the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

See this and many more company name etymologies here.

Filed under: Etymology, Google, Googol, Word Play

Neologism

The Washington Post has a yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners for 2005 were:

Coffee (n) – The person upon whom one coughs.

Flabbergasted (adj) – Appalled over how much weight you have gained.

Abdicate (v) – To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

Esplanade (v) – To attempt an explanation while drunk.

Willy-nilly (adj) – Impotent.

Negligent (adj) – Describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

Lymph (v) – To walk with a lisp.

Gargoyle (n) – Olive-flavored mouthwash.

Flatulence (n) – Emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

Balderdash (n) – A rapidly receding hairline.

Testicle (n) – A humorous question on an exam.

Rectitude (n) – The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

Pokemon (n) – A Rastafarian proctologist.

Oyster (n) – A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

Frisbeetarianism (n) – The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

Circumvent (n) – An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

Filed under: Humor, Neologism, Word Play