pbmax's definitions

mockward

1) Making a situation more awkward by mocking how awkward it is. The situation need not be awkward in the first place.

Apparently coined by Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse.

2) Mocking someone in an awkward — and thereby probably unsuccessful — manner.

Apparently coined by then-Columbia Journalism Review assistant editor Megan Garber.

Someone asked to define the word "awkward" will often resort to describing the task as "awkward," which is just mockward. When someone does the same with "mockward," it's meta-mockward.

by PBMax May 11, 2008

Pathection

The purest, Plantonic manifestation of being pathetic.

Douglas achieved pathection by choosing to "Reply-All" because he didn't realize most of the recipients wouldn't care about him.

by PBMax April 17, 2008

memelitism

Disliking a meme because of other people liking it. This may be due to the quantity of others passing the idea along, or because the undesirable nature of the communities receiving it. A combination of "meme" and "elitist."

Sikander's memelitism kept him from reading danah boyd's blog once it was referenced in 'Newsweek.'

by PBMax January 5, 2009

hiposterous

Having extraordinarily large hips. A combination of hips and preposterous.

Not to be confused with hippoposterous.

Kim Kardashian may have all kinds of implants, but she's naturally hiposterous.

by PBMax September 28, 2008

Evite Exegesis

Analyzing an evite. Despite evites' air of informality, they are often carefully constructed by party planners and thus can be rich with meaning. Nevertheless, it is easy to overthink an evite, whether by incorrectly ascribing intentionality to hastily written remarks, attempting to divine patterns from the ebb & flow of responses, or forgetting to ask yourself the simple question, "Will I have fun?"

No response prompts more evite exegesis than "+ 1 guest."

by PBMax June 13, 2008

Whoristorian

People who can remember almost every guy/girl their friends have hooked up with, how they met, where they were, what nickname they gave the guy/girl and why they were dubbed said nickname. Portmanteau of whore and historian.

Ellie was so adept at recalling her friends' hookups that they dubbed her a "whoristorian."

by PBMax March 13, 2009

factorial funny

Reading "!" used for punctuation as if they designated the mathematical function factorial.

LEX: I used Yahoo Factorial to look for Panic Fatorial @ The Disco concerts.
IRA: Since when is the word factorial funny?

by PBMax May 1, 2008