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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2011-01-13 09:07 pm

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My footprint in culture?

A word I invented, scrotumnal, maybe eight years ago and used in a chat room a few times was either independently invented or parroted by someone else around the same time and now has almost 20 pages of google uses.

I and/or the other guy (I'll bet you anything it's a guy) bequeath it to your children. Tell them not to thank him or me.

[identity profile] thelican.livejournal.com 2011-01-14 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's kind of awesome. Applied equally to scrota and shriveled objects?

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2011-01-14 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
The first rule of parsimony club is that you never call a scrotum scrotumnal.

Actually I think I only ever mentioned it so that others could see it and agree what a wince-inducingly horrible word it was. To poke it with a stick really. I wonder what things you could even call scrotumnal? Inari maybe.

[identity profile] thelican.livejournal.com 2011-01-14 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Squelch.

I was thinking toads. Certain kinds of toads.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2011-01-14 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, yeah. The feel of them even. Though to say that is to either admit to comparative scrotum-groping or toadliness in deeply personal parts. But since you don't know which is true you'll kindly think me innocent on both counts.

[identity profile] thelican.livejournal.com 2011-01-14 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
But of course.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2011-01-14 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Scrotalicious.