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* [[Stephen Colbert]]. While "Truthiness" already had an archaic (different from the modern) definition, "Wikiality" is a whole new word. |
* [[Stephen Colbert]]. While "Truthiness" already had an archaic (different from the modern) definition, "Wikiality" is a whole new word. |
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* In 1995, Conan O'Brien was looking for a word to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|outwit the censors]]. He came up with the word "Crunk." Ice-T used the word several times during the broadcast. Nowadays, there's barely a rapper alive that doesn't have "crunk" in his vocabulary...and there's now even an [[Crunkcore|entire genre of music]] named after it... |
* In 1995, Conan O'Brien was looking for a word to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|outwit the censors]]. He came up with the word "Crunk." Ice-T used the word several times during the broadcast. Nowadays, there's barely a rapper alive that doesn't have "crunk" in his vocabulary...and there's now even an [[Crunkcore|entire genre of music]] named after it... |
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* As discussed on an episode of ''[[QI]]'', the sketch show ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'' once used "flange" as the collective noun for gorillas—as in "a pride of lions," "a pod of dolphins," "a flange of gorillas." It was just a joke, [[Captain Obvious|such as you might expect from a comedy show]], but apparently some people took it at face value and the term has been adopted by academics, but to refer to baboons. The collective noun for gorillas is congress. |
* As discussed on an episode of ''[[QI]]'', the sketch show ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'' once used "flange" as the collective noun for gorillas—as in "a pride of lions," "a pod of dolphins," "a flange of gorillas." It was just a joke, [[Captain Obvious|such as you might expect from a comedy show]], but apparently some people took it at face value and the term has been adopted by academics, but to refer to baboons. The collective noun for gorillas is congress. |
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{{quote|'''Stephen Fry:''' What's the collective noun for a group of baboons? |
{{quote|'''Stephen Fry:''' What's the collective noun for a group of baboons? |
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'''Rich Hall:''' The Pentagon. |
'''Rich Hall:''' The Pentagon.}} |
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* On ''[[Not Necessarily the News]]'', Rich Hall created a segment which encouraged viewers to write in examples. The segment was called "Sniglets", which was defined as "Words that should be in the dictionary but aren't." Some examples include: |
* On ''[[Not Necessarily the News]]'', Rich Hall created a segment which encouraged viewers to write in examples. The segment was called "Sniglets", which was defined as "Words that should be in the dictionary but aren't." Some examples include: |
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** Krogt — the silver coating on lottery tickets or game pieces that you scratch off with a quarter. |
** Krogt — the silver coating on lottery tickets or game pieces that you scratch off with a quarter. |
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*** There ''is'' a term for unpopped popcorn in the business. They're called "old maids". |
*** There ''is'' a term for unpopped popcorn in the business. They're called "old maids". |
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* In ''[[Blackadder]]'', Edmund torments Dr. Samuel Johnson by making up words such as "contrafibularities", "anaspeptic", "phrasmotic", and "interphrastically". |
* In ''[[Blackadder]]'', Edmund torments Dr. Samuel Johnson by making up words such as "contrafibularities", "anaspeptic", "phrasmotic", and "interphrastically". |
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==Video Games== |
==Video Games== |
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