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09 March 2006

Care to help invent some words? →[More:]I'd like to have a word/phrase for those useless e-mails your relatives forward to you. Also, those bags-on-wheels people pull behind them.
Of course, feel free to throw in other requests.

post by: Hellbient at: 12:23 | 17 comments

e-ffluvia.
roboluggage.

posted by jonmc 09 March | 12:25

just thought of one as I hit "post" - "fam-spam"?
Also, for the wheeled luggage thing, I was thinking of it as some sort of weird pet, or a wagon perhaps.

posted by Hellbient 09 March | 12:25

I didn't coin it (I think ColdChef did), but I LOVE "fauxmosexual" much better than "metrosexual".

This has nothing to do with e-mails or bags. Unless you're a straight man who gets gay porn spam. On wheels.

posted by WolfDaddy 09 March | 12:31

spam. On wheels.

which would be a slam spam. arriving on a spam-mobile. Unless of course it's suspended in the air by cables, which would make it a Spam Tram.

posted by jonmc 09 March | 12:33

jazzhole

one who listens only to jazz and believes that it is intellectually superior to all other forms of music.

i like jazz, i'm just not a jazzhole.

posted by shane 09 March | 12:42

I'd like to see a Spam-mobile and Weiner-mobile race. I'm going with the Weiner-mobile by a head. oh my.
and jazzhole, fauxmosexual - good. will use.

posted by Hellbient 09 March | 12:47

Heh. E-ffluvia is nice. My parents don't send me that stuff... But I once mailed a friend at his mom's house (I know her, too), and now I get it from her. We really do need a name for that.

posted by taz 09 March | 12:55

Actually, shane, you're just not a jasshole.

posted by WolfDaddy 09 March | 13:15

Snopes refers to it as "glurge."

I refer to it as "stupid crap my fundie midwestern grandfather sends to me in the mistaken belief that dancing bears will convert me."

posted by jrossi4r 09 March | 13:18

Your grandfather is a Deadhead?

posted by Hellbient 09 March | 14:06

Wow, cool trivia wolfdaddy!

posted by shane 09 March | 14:07

I've always heard it referred to as "flong"-- short for "forwarded along"-- but now I see that's an actual word.

posted by eamondaly 09 March | 14:43

Farfle.

posted by Specklet 09 March | 15:35

For the family spam: relation-shit

For the luggage: trailer-stash

posted by King of Prontopia 09 March | 16:19

KoP: GodHeadSilo wrote a song titled "relationshit" by the way, of course, they also penned the wonderfully titled "Chuckanut Overdrive" both of which look like they are still available for download from the sub pop site.

I'm down with e-ffluvia, but I don't think that "pet luggage" (what I say) has been aptly neologized yet.

posted by safetyfork 09 March | 17:22

Faux-mo! Yay! Spread the love!

posted by ColdChef 09 March | 20:27

I have to admit to finding "chutzpahcrisy" extremely handy since coining it (to my knowledge) here.

posted by scody 09 March | 22:47

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