Of Bluzy Summers and Manageries
Five more words that could be in the dictionary
Invited to this challenge by Daniel G. Clark, I find myself running down and up the bark, Who started this? Oh, it was Tree Langdon ♾️ And continued on, by the writers sanctum And then it starts spreading like wildfire Welcome to the party, madame & sire Then jumped in Keno Ogbo & Eli Snow How could I stay, at a stone’s throw?
5 more words that could be in the dictionary
1) Managerie
This is what a menagerie of managers is called, typically a group of people in large corporate houses, whose only visible role is shifting work between people. Largely known for not producing anything of value, they are present in all medium and large companies.
Also called, the dreaded “middle management”.
The managerie are also responsible for slowing down the rotation of the earth’s axis. One might even say they put a reverse spin on it. The evidence is visible in the slowing down of all productive processes in corporations, as soon as they are touched by the jaundiced hand of a member of the managerie.
2) Shideate
To shideate is to ideate in the shower. Not applicable to those living in South Africa, where (because of water supply issues) a shower longer than 2 minutes was banned a few years back.
Shideators, when faced with a water supply issue, will move bag and baggage to the nearest airport, enroute to wherever the next flight out may be, corona or no corona.
Because what are we without ideas? And those that originate in the shower are the best of all.
3) Bluzy
Usage: I am sorry I cannot attend your party, I am bluzy that day.
Meaning: Bluzy is what you are when you are pretending to be busy, but are actually feeling blue.
Places of usage: When you are crying in bed, from a broken heart, or corona induced lockdown, or, well, just being annoyed with the managerie.
4) Merritating
Merritating is when you begin meditating (with the best of intentions) but your mind is focused on making merry instead, and the ensuing battle within begins to get irritating.
While you would like a soul cleanse from meditating, your mind’s eye is merritating, unblinkingly focused on the bottle of wine sitting on the kitchen counter, waiting to be uncorked.
Perhaps it is time to give up and just get merry instead. After all, the bottle isn’t going to uncork itself, is it?
5) Confoundium
Confoundium is the state you find yourself in, after umpteen Zoom calls, when after many distractions and multitasking, you suddenly find your name called out, and no clue as to what was said before it.
A state of abject and utter confoundium.
Your options are to blame technology — Zoom, the internet connection, the neighbor’s dog, imaginary roommates, well anything you can get away with.
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Here’s the trail, if anyone’s keeping track!