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6.11.2008

Wibbly-Wobbly

This is my new favorite stupid word of the week. I've been using it to describe things. I need to stop. In case you're not familiar with Stranger Than Fiction, "wibbly-wobbly" plays a prominent role in one of the phantom narrator's more hilarious lines about a government mental wellness professional:

Why was Harold talking to this man? This man... was an idiot;
this man used words like "wibbly-wobbly" and "convo,"
and explained that trees were trees. Of course trees were trees;
Harold knew that trees were trees.

Dumb as wibbly-wobbly may be, it works rather well for certain descriptive instances. My apologies to Kay Eiffel and Harold Crick both.

2 Comments:

Blogger Valerie said...

"Wonky" is always on the tip of my tongue these days.

June 12, 2008 11:05 AM

 
Blogger Hoyden said...

Hey, me too! I really enjoy that word. I think I stole it from Buffy . . .

June 13, 2008 8:55 AM

 

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