Sunday, July 09, 2006

We need a new word...

...to describe guys
who jog or run
on the shoulder of the roadway
facing traffic
with their shirts off
at rush hour
not more that 20 feet from a parallel hike & bike trail!

My thought is that we use a portmanteau -- a word combines part of one or both of two original words to form a new word -- for example, guesstimate ( guess + estimate).

Here are my candidate words:
exhibitionist
show-off
hotdog
peacock

ps. If he's wearing speedos, you're allowed to hit him with your car in three states.*

*I realize the sentence is grammatically incorrect, but I kind of like the incorrect meaning!
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8 comments:

  1. :P fuzzbox11:01 AM

    Around here if a guy is running with his shirt off he is usually running from the cops.
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    ...and has a cannabis tattoo!

    which gives me an idea of what to name them rummers:
    adonis + dope = adopus (adopii)

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  2. stan12:06 PM

    Around here, he is a cop.
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    lol -- or my favorite cart-retriever from Wal*Mart

    how about:
    gutter + god = gutter god (althought that's not a     portmanteau)

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  3. starbender9:03 AM

    I always thought they had a
    'DEATH WISH'
    So how 'bout we just call them
    Dishers=Death Wishers!
    And pass a law where U can run them over and fufill their dream!
    :]
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    LOL -- I like dishers !!!!!!!

    I had forgotten, David (second cousin once removed) calls them "Steroid Exhibits"

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  4. Jeff10:22 AM

    flomaboner

    Floppy man b00b runner. I really don't see the need to run without a shirt. I also don't see the need to run at all.
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    hehe -- my guess is that there a boner involved sometime

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  5. Anonymous11:21 AM

    How about "hood ornament"?
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    not enough style, more like grill cover :)

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  6. Anonymous3:15 PM

    I just call 'em Ewwwwwwww! What about Exhibitionish + Idiot = exhibiot?
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    good one -- but how to pronouce????????? is the "t" silent???? :)

    We always call Target the "targe" as if it were a french word, to make it should fancier

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  7. sleepyrn5:14 PM

    Anyone running on the street with a perfectly good running path within yards is an a$$hole. Anyone running with out a shirt is just gross. So we can have *grasshole* or *grole*
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    triple word score for the double portmanteau

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  8. Jay Noel6:55 PM

    How about you combine "flasher" with "shirt off" to form:

    flashirtoff
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    sounds like the lead dancer in the Russian Ballet :)

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