Comments on: I can't believe quonsar didn't win.

I can't believe quonsar didn't win.

DeepFriedTwinkies — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:38:23 -0800

The American Dialect Society has announced the 2005 word of the year. Sadly, muffin top, crotchfruit, Cruizasy (PDF file), and the obviously wonderful popesquatting were big old losers.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:40:52 -0800

Steven Colbert is a genious, and this is awesome.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:42:46 -0800

"I can't prove it, but I can say it."

By: mystyk

mystyk — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:21:29 -0800

I love these lists. It's one of the best parts of the new year.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:22:29 -0800

I would have hoped that one of my personal favorite new words, shambolic - sham symbolism, would have garnered an honorable mention. But alas, such was not to be.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:33:42 -0800

Didn't Colbert also coin the similar "factesque"?

By: mystyk

mystyk — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:34:05 -0800

Not before fundagelical.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:51:57 -0800

I would have hoped that one of my personal favorite new words, shambolic - sham symbolism Shambolic isn't new, and doesn't mean that! Eric Idle used the word "shambolic" in 1982's Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. In the Dead Bishop Sketch, many things went wrong -- mikes not working well, wigs flying off, etc -- and at the end Eric Idle stepped up and said "I never wanted to be in that shambolic sketch," as in "like a shambles." Presumably Mr. Idle did not invent the word for that occasion.

By: Oyéah

Oyéah — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:15:47 -0800

pajamahudeen! Sign me up. You shall not "know" the truthy, and the truthy shall not set you free!

By: drstein

drstein — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:57:59 -0800

Wasn't that the same headline over at Fark?

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:00:49 -0800

ROU, quit being a shambecile! Nah, just kidding. I wasn't aware that its an old word. Thanks for the lesson. Maybe I'll just qualify my statement by saying its a new word to me.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:01:40 -0800

It would be funnier if Colbert hadn't been the one who "coined" it...he's the only person on TV who is LESS funny than Jon Stewart.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:05:17 -0800

davidmsc writes "It would be funnier if Colbert hadn't been the one who 'coined' it...he's the only person on TV who is LESS funny than Jon Stewart." Uh, huh. I got no problem with you not liking the Daily Show guys, but do you live in the same universe where Larry the Cable Guy is a millionaire?

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:11:22 -0800

I have always deplored muffin-tops, but I'm happy the term has been coined.

By: Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:04:36 -0800

You must be confused, davidmsc. Here. Let's watch some TV. sits davidmsc in front of The King Of Queens Anything you want to take back, hmm? sits davidmsc in front of Dharma And Greg> So, er, anything yet? sits davidmsc in front of Everybody Loves Raymond? Anything? No? Hmm? Anything at all?

By: rob511

rob511 — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:08:11 -0800

What, not even a mention for -- cheney vt fuck, engage in coitus with ("Go cheney yourself!")

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:08:22 -0800

Jeez...point taken, guys. You know, thinking about all of those shows sure made me nostalgic for the Glory Days of The Simpsons, The Critic, Seinfeld, and Duckman. Duckman...now THERE was a funny guy. Er, duck.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:23:50 -0800

"I've got to go. The Brady Bunch is on, and, without naming names, I find four of those kids very appealing!" Man, I miss Duckman.

By: redsparkler

redsparkler — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:22:12 -0800

I was under the impression that "shambolic" was an attribute referring to the movements of (Romero era) Zombies. Shaun Of The Dead backs me up on that one, I believe.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:57:39 -0800

Shambolic: 1. Chaotic 2. An artificial testicle

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:30:40 -0800

sits davidmsc in front of Everybody Loves Raymond? Hey, wait a minute. The first two examples were dead-on, but Raymond actually is funny.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:57:02 -0800

Eric Idle used the word "shambolic" in 1982's Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl It's considerably older than that. The OED's earliest cite is from 1970, but they add: "Reported to be ‘in common use’ in 1958." On "truthiness," see Benjamin Zimmer's Language Log post (with update links at end).

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:04:13 -0800

I dunno, I thought King of Queens is OK, I've only seen like one or two eppisodes. Now Arrested Development. There's a crappy show. /ducks.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:59:18 -0800

Your favorite television show only proves what a complete imbecile you are.

By: macadamiaranch

macadamiaranch — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:31:56 -0800

What, no grippy?

By: cedar key

cedar key — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:26:39 -0800

Maybe Bush's legacy will be: "Heck of a Job"

By: Devils Slide

Devils Slide — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:27:50 -0800

Cartyr - Islamic fundamentalist suicide (car) bomber. Obviously Car + Martyr. I blurted it out while watching the news with my gf (and I know it's in bad taste).

By: signal

signal — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:30:25 -0800

E.L.Raymond is a comedy? All along I thought it was a cop-forensic-drama.

By: luser

luser — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:52:30 -0800

"I've swallowed 20 condoms full of truth and I'm smuggling them across the border!" Colbert is great. However, once you notice his right ear is somewhat, er, mangled, it will become incredibly distracting! You're welcome.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:37:09 -0800

I'd rather gargle thumbtacks than watch the utterly unfunny Everybody Loves Raymond. It is the lamest, most pathetic comedy show I've ever flipped right past with my remote. The show's made for old people who can't take real humor anymore so they do canned humor because its safer for them. The definition of not cool in anyway is if you watch the show and find the jokes funny. They are not. Thank you, that is all. At least, scambolic's my word!

By: bephillips

bephillips — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:38:58 -0800

George Bush: great president or Greatest President?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:51:03 -0800

"...once you notice his right ear is somewhat, er, mangled, it will become incredibly distracting..." We (my wife and I) noticed it early on in his run on The Daily Show and it still make us cringe.

By: ab3

ab3 — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:57:00 -0800

a) This report is very badly organized and layed out. Difficult to read, difficult to understand the methodologies used... ick. b) Looking at the past winners ( WMD, 9/11, red states/blue states, etc) it's kind of sad that "Katrina" (which is a truly important word this year) was beaten by "truthiness" (which is a joke word, even if coined to reflect current political realities, is poorly defined, and is really only known widely by Cobert & Daily Show fans.)

By: muckster

muckster — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:19:35 -0800

The German word of 2005: Bundeskanzlerin.

By: gagglezoomer

gagglezoomer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:02:51 -0800

Shambolic (from the oxford english dictionary) Chaotic, disorderly, undisciplined. Reported to be ‘in common use’ in 1958. 1970 Times 18 June 9 His office in Printing House Square is so impeccably tidy that it is..a standing reproach to the standard image of shambolic newspaper offices. 1975 Times 14 June 8/5 The average listener is in the position of anybody who encounters an organization at work for the first time. It may appear shambolic but how much is that because he hasn't yet made sense of it. 1978 R. JANSSON News Caper xiii. 110 We may have a shambolic landing, Jean. I want you to go right through the aircraft reminding people about the emergency drill. 1980 Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts July 509/1 It will continue in a much more shambolic manner than the urbanization that has occurred in the Western World.

By: corranhorn

corranhorn — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:05:27 -0800

I appreciated the Bumper Nutz nomination if only for the fact that it finally confirmed what I thought I saw under a pickup truck while visiting my parents in rural, northern Wisconsin. (Bumper Nutz: fake testicles hung from the rear end of a vehicle.)

By: pracowity

pracowity — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:35:33 -0800

New Yorker:

Colbert is forty-one, a native of South Carolina, one of eleven children, the father of three, a suburban guy, and deaf in one ear. “I had this weird tumor as a kid, and they scooped it out with a melon baller.”