Pen-Dragon's definitions
The stress that results before (pre)-during-and-after (post) a vacation.
A vacation is actually simply the continuance of one's regular daily life under more difficult circumstances.
A vacation is actually simply the continuance of one's regular daily life under more difficult circumstances.
"Yes, I have VSD -- Vacation Stress Disorder. I would actually rather be at the dentist's"
"I start shaking in fear when I think of my wife's plans for our next vacation...add to that a nervous cough, stuffed nose, headache, asthma, joint pain...wasn't this holday supposed to be good for me? Yes, this is VSD -- Vacation Stress Disorder."
"I start shaking in fear when I think of my wife's plans for our next vacation...add to that a nervous cough, stuffed nose, headache, asthma, joint pain...wasn't this holday supposed to be good for me? Yes, this is VSD -- Vacation Stress Disorder."
by Pen-Dragon October 2, 2023
Get the Vacation Stress Disordermug. Goes something like this:
-- Don’t people the scientifically as yet unexplained, unexplored areas of our world and reality with wild – or otherwise – conjecture you propose as “TRUTH”.
-- Rigorously relegate said “beliefs” to the realm of wishful-/magical-thinking, fantasy, and fiction or – at the very least – have the courage to …
-- Present “them” as theories open to testing, fact-based repudiation, public scrutiny … and then
ACCEPT THE RESULTS !!! Or – at the very least –
Have the humility and intellectual honesty to call them what they are:
MY OWN …
Crazy Ideas
Desires
Self-psyche-salving delusions (at worst)/”fables” (at best) that help me get through the night,
help me get through life.
See ALSO: Occam’s Razor, Chatton’s Anti-Razor, Hickam’s Dictum, Leibniz’s and Kant’s anti-razors, Crabtree’s Bludgeon, Pataphysics.
-- Don’t people the scientifically as yet unexplained, unexplored areas of our world and reality with wild – or otherwise – conjecture you propose as “TRUTH”.
-- Rigorously relegate said “beliefs” to the realm of wishful-/magical-thinking, fantasy, and fiction or – at the very least – have the courage to …
-- Present “them” as theories open to testing, fact-based repudiation, public scrutiny … and then
ACCEPT THE RESULTS !!! Or – at the very least –
Have the humility and intellectual honesty to call them what they are:
MY OWN …
Crazy Ideas
Desires
Self-psyche-salving delusions (at worst)/”fables” (at best) that help me get through the night,
help me get through life.
See ALSO: Occam’s Razor, Chatton’s Anti-Razor, Hickam’s Dictum, Leibniz’s and Kant’s anti-razors, Crabtree’s Bludgeon, Pataphysics.
Because he refused to even consider the Novacula Franqui (aka Novacula Frangiscc' aka Frankie's Razor), let alone use it, he peopled his ideas of what was going on around him, and in the world at large, with dark Deep States, Alien Beings, Cabals of Reptile-People, et al. Nothing is simply as it seems!!! It gave him the frisson he needed to keep from self-reflection.
by Pen-Dragon November 7, 2024
Get the Novacula Franqui (aka Novacula Frangiscc' aka Frankie's Razor)mug. Someone who is versed in all sorts of different conspiracy theories, from all over the world, even in different languages...and who spews them gladly and constantly.
"His high-school knowledge of French combined with his ravenous appetite for arcane, unprovable, specious knowledge made him a gollyplot par excellence! He spread the 'secret' of Emmanuel Macron's lascivious habit of dressing up as the Empress Joséphine far-and-wide on the social media platforms, under his nom-de-plume: Pendraggin. "
by Pen-Dragon August 20, 2023
Get the Gollyplotmug. An uncontrollable desire to kiss and be kissed.
A combination of "osculate" Latin osculatus, past participle of osculari, from osculum kiss, from diminutive of os mouth and "cupidity" Latin cupiditat-, cupiditas — related to the verb COVET
A combination of "osculate" Latin osculatus, past participle of osculari, from osculum kiss, from diminutive of os mouth and "cupidity" Latin cupiditat-, cupiditas — related to the verb COVET
He ignored it the entire year, but come February 14th he was inevitably overcome by an inundation of uncontrollable oscupidity.
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by Pen-Dragon September 28, 2021
Get the Oscupiditymug. From the Latin «avos» = grandfather and “-ine” = like, resembling.
1. -ine is a suffix of adjectives of Greek or Latin origin, meaning “of or pertaining to,” “of the nature of,” “made of,” “like”: asinine; crystalline; equine; marine.
1. -ine is a suffix of adjectives of Greek or Latin origin, meaning “of or pertaining to,” “of the nature of,” “made of,” “like”: asinine; crystalline; equine; marine.
While his student went up to collect her technical degree, the venerable, avosine Professor proffered his help, then put all of his skills and years of experience to work, calming and coddling the restive, restless little wee baby that the young woman had just recently born.
by Pen-Dragon April 9, 2024
Get the avosinemug. Snuggy-Smuggy
(adj., n.)
Pronounced: /ˈsnʌɡi ˈsmʌɡi/
1. (adj.) A state of being irresistibly cozy and self-satisfied—often after accomplishing something delightful or mischievous, wrapped in physical or emotional warmth.
Example:
"After finishing the novel and sipping her third hot chocolate, she leaned back with a snuggy-smuggy grin."
2. (n.) A person (or pet!) who embodies maximum snugness with a touch of cheeky smugness.
Example:
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
3. (adj.) Describes someone (or a group/society) that is so sure of their own excellence, righteousness, or perfection that they become complacent, dismissive, and impenetrably smug—blissfully unaware of their own blind spots.
Example:
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
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Usage Notes
The term spans the spectrum—from endearing coziness to dangerously insulated superiority.
Use carefully. Tone is everything.
Synonyms (for #3):
smugsecure, bubble-blind, cushy-elite, deluxtone-deaf
ETYMOLOGY:
Believed to have emerged from the foggy borderlands engendered in a Swiss winter cabin and a glass of Lagavulin Single-Malt. Possibly whispered by a bespectacled cat in a cashmere sweater, staring into the fire like it knew all along.
(adj., n.)
Pronounced: /ˈsnʌɡi ˈsmʌɡi/
1. (adj.) A state of being irresistibly cozy and self-satisfied—often after accomplishing something delightful or mischievous, wrapped in physical or emotional warmth.
Example:
"After finishing the novel and sipping her third hot chocolate, she leaned back with a snuggy-smuggy grin."
2. (n.) A person (or pet!) who embodies maximum snugness with a touch of cheeky smugness.
Example:
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
3. (adj.) Describes someone (or a group/society) that is so sure of their own excellence, righteousness, or perfection that they become complacent, dismissive, and impenetrably smug—blissfully unaware of their own blind spots.
Example:
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
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Usage Notes
The term spans the spectrum—from endearing coziness to dangerously insulated superiority.
Use carefully. Tone is everything.
Synonyms (for #3):
smugsecure, bubble-blind, cushy-elite, deluxtone-deaf
ETYMOLOGY:
Believed to have emerged from the foggy borderlands engendered in a Swiss winter cabin and a glass of Lagavulin Single-Malt. Possibly whispered by a bespectacled cat in a cashmere sweater, staring into the fire like it knew all along.
"After finishing the novel and sipping her third hot chocolate, she leaned back with a snuggy-smuggy grin."
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
by Pen-Dragon June 15, 2025
Get the Snuggy-Smuggymug. Young, cute men, as those found in boy-bands such as BTS, who cause young girls' and (some) boys' hearts to go aflutter...WARNING: Swoon Danger!
***SIGH***
N.B. Could, theoretically, also be applied to girl-bands.
***SIGH***
N.B. Could, theoretically, also be applied to girl-bands.
You never know where you stand with these crushbait beaus – just like the dating experience in today’s urban jungles, overgrown with the choking, strangling fears of commitment: indeed, this is the common thread, the leitmotif that runs through the song-stories and ballads of all their hit tunes.
by Pen-Dragon June 11, 2022
Get the crushbaitmug.