“Ostension.” It’s the name for a situation which actually happens but mirrors an established piece of folklore or urban myth. (It just happened to me, I can tell the tale of what happened if anyone remotely cares.)

What new words have you learned recently? (And keep it clean!)

Ostension, just now.

Metabase.

I’m still not quite clear what one is but it’s related to classified scams in some way.

Ostension, – cheers Cougar

Ostension, just now.

I should’ve seen that coming, shouldn’t I. I’m quite tired today. Good work.

Whatever happened to bouncebackability?

The other day I discovered the word ‘moue’, pronounced moo. It means a pouty grimace, which accurately describes my wife’s face when I told her I wanted a new bike.

So, what happened?

Whatever happened to bouncebackability

no idea but it’ll probably bounce back.

It’s wassaname for it.

Proverbial

Was it the one where your car breaks down on a dark and deserted country lane and the boyfriend goes off to get help?

Metabase…..

Oh, wasnotaswaswas i see you beat me to it…

Narrativium, innit?

So, what happened?

Nothing hugely exciting. I went for lunch at work yesterday, brought in some bread to go with it. I’ve got a little Tupperware container of butter in the fridge, went to get it and found it empty bar a little smear. So I had a good moan to anyone who would listen about thieving buggers helping themselves and leaving me stuck. Then I took the empty container home to wash out and refill.

This morning, I went to the fridge to get milk for a brew and spotted… *my* identical container of butter at the back of the fridge, still full. Doh.

The “ostension” bit came about because Douglas Adams used to tell a very similar story about biscuits, the story crops up in So Long and Thanks for all the Fish and there are earlier variants which predate DNA’s version.

Nothing hugely exciting.

you should have stopped there.

you should have stopped there.

It’s Metabase all over again, isn’t it 😉

Oh bugger off, you lot. (-:

This morning, I went to the fridge to get milk for a brew and spotted… *my* identical container of butter at the back of the fridge, still full.

…..or was it?

Maybe your original container had been hollowed out and replaced by an identical replica form outer space ………

INVASION OF THE BUTTER SNATCHERS! MWAAAaaaHAAAAHHHaaa!

(gets coat, calls taxi)

Thats a great story Cougar…….. it isnt though is it 😉

Perhaps it’s a buttery wormhole linking the fridge at work to mine at home. A bit like the Chron-o-John in DoTT.

I thought this was going to be something about dropped kerbs, soffits, and trees 🙁

Metabase…..

yeah, but I’m not sure I understand the meaning. Anyone here care to explain it, preferably with lots of detail
?

I invented Gnardio last week. But I got no love for it whatsoever.

Not so much a word as a phrase. I learned what to ‘Netflix and chill’ means the other day

😯

It’s two words rather than one but

buttery wormhole

is a new one for me.

Nice story, but who introduced you to the word?
Do they normally talk like that?

I was disappointed to learn that a fembot can’t give you pleasure. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Ashley Madison story

Woah There! I wonder how many folks got the DoTT reference. (No googling it you lot at the back.)

We need to be aware that Cougar has form for inventing words 😯
When I recently mentioned the real word GRUE, he made up the word BLEEN

Just became aware of the word ’embiggenate’

And you lot think strava has no uses…

I thank you.

Whoever gave you that definition is somewhat wide of the mark, that said your definition requires a word. Veracimyth?

When I worked in the garage I was called an effing w.
I was able to tell my adversary that’s an oxymoron.
I then had to explain what that meant.
Victory was mine.
I also had to explain to him that in Sympathy For The Devil , pilots didn’t seal his fate.

Narrativium

Dodgy metal band?

Nice story, but who introduced you to the word?

Snopes. http://www.snopes.com/info/glossary.asp#ostension

Ostension is a folkloric term for the process of unwittingly acting out or mimicking the greater part (if not the entirety) of an urban legend that is already part of the body of lore. More simply, if the events described in an urban legend which had been around since 1950 actually did indeed spontaneously play out in real life in 1992, that would be an example of ostension.

When I recently mentioned the real word GRUE

Of course that’s a real word. They’re carnivorous creatures that live in the dark.

(ironnigel > If DoTT went over people’s heads, this one surely will.)

Just became aware of the word ’embiggenate’

Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word.

Indissolubly connected

“Obsequious” from the thread about a woman who surrounds herself with obsequious people.

Whoever gave you that definition is somewhat wide of the mark,

Here’s another one then.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acyrologia

I made up ‘upgradalysed’ a while back to describe the feeling that your bike is unfit for riding once an upgrade has been ordered but not yet fitted.