After-Dinner Discussion

Some of you are doubtlessly thinking “Badgergasm?!?  THAT’S the best you can do?!?  I can beat that without even breaking out a hyphen!”  Prove it, dammit!  There’s a “comments” area here for a reason!

And for those of you who are overwhelmed by the challenge, I’ve thrown some HTML together and created an online tool you can use to generate your very own useless word!  Click here to check it out!

This strip’s dedicated to the good folks at LanguageLog, the first site ever to say nice things about my run on PartiallyClips.  Thanks, guys!

-=ShoEboX=-


Discussion (43) ¬

  1. Jem

    mimeology
    trihedron
    nothingness (Oh, whoops, people sometimes say this. Still counts.)
    king-in-law

    Okay, I broke out the hyphens.

  2. Opus

    Jem, you were close with Noghtingness, but I think it’s more useless as…

    Nothingful.

  3. FreeJaffa

    Mustardocracy

  4. ABlindManSees

    This comic makes my heart cockels laughistic.

  5. NASA guy

    We actually use this one, so I guess it isn’t useless, but it is terrible: desirement.

  6. lee

    What the app needs is a random button.

  7. Chains

    You had me at “Nazilicious”!

    And I support the include of a random button. That would be ninja-on-a-stick spanktastic!

  8. Darknbitter

    Partiallyclipped.

  9. Baywolfe

    Sandwichologist.

  10. Shadrach

    *ahem* Christianite
    That is a doozy of one from a good friend…

  11. ReverendLoki

    Sphincternaut

  12. lobat

    fuckelupogus

  13. shoebox

    YAY! These are awesome!

    Totally agree on the random button. I’ve been looking for an excuse to play with PHP, so maybe I’ll figure something out.

    -=ShoEboX=-

  14. Apekid

    Slipperophrenic
    Orangometric
    Cowessence
    (and now for the hyphens)
    Nougat-o’clock
    Pants-o’-lantern
    Alphabet-o’-the-wisp

  15. Theodwulf

    I think a moment’s reflection on the contents of the internet will make clear that there are many situations in which ‘badgergasm’ is of enormous utility.

  16. shoebox

    Yes, and that’s why I try to steer clear of the Internet at all costs.

    In retrospect “Skabkabob” is probably the most useless of the words I came up with for this strip. But “Badgergasm” felt more like a punchline.

    “Pants-o’-lantern” may be my new favorite. But I’ve been finding pants references entirely too amusing lately because of this video.

    -=ShoEboX=-

  17. random

    Moustachfu

  18. P.D.

    octoglotdom (a territory ruled by someone who speaks eight languages)

  19. Yakityak

    Pants-o’-lantern… next year’s Halloween costume is all locked up! Thanks for the inspiration. Now off to surf for some battery operated LED’s…

  20. Andy Goth

    You don’t need PHP for a random button. A little JavaScript is all it takes.

  21. verystrange

    Boundarylessly… You had to be there…

  22. Gary

    Thank you for the biggest laugh of the year-so-far!

    kitchendom

    Sorry… I’m not that clever.

  23. hans

    This is the best strips in weeks, maybe months. LOl’d indeed.
    Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch with “woody” and “tiny” words.
    BTW, if that’s Reginald, is the other on Clovis?

  24. Troy S.

    Definitely wouldn’t have found you if it weren’t for Language Log. Keep up the good work!

  25. Brain

    mime-in-law
    penis-coated
    vaginocophagous

  26. Brain

    mustardgasm

  27. yoMTVraps

    regardful – convenient response (and synonym) to irregardless. most usefully inflected with a question mark following

  28. gnixdep
  29. Katie

    nutmegmatic

  30. Dan

    rubixpube

  31. Studoku

    Soupocracy

  32. the hatstand

    Pancentric
    Neurothetical
    Pseudoplasm

  33. bjr

    monarchtard.
    groinistic

  34. Rob

    sacrilicious
    deifimatic

  35. God of Pie

    Kebabability — your current kebab-eating ability, measured as a function of hunger, size of kebab and quality of kebab.

  36. guinea_pig

    crotchtastic
    tapewormacious

  37. raw

    colonectable

  38. The Witness

    haha, my friend sent me here to see for myself where he found his favorite word. Awesome!

  39. Jer

    So, it’s a little past easter, and I’ve just read everything you’ve written here since Balder left. This one is the most like the PartiallyClips that I used to read, for three reasons:

    1. A joke in every panel.
    2. A supplementary joke (in your face) after the main one.
    3. it made me laugh.

  40. Peter

    Sphinxoscopy

  41. fgrams

    Shipship – the state of being a ship
    Philophile – someone who likes people named Phil
    Fancymancy – the divination of elaborate and highly decorated things

    …also, from the wacky world of business: customer-centric, facilitate, and problematic (God, I hate “problematic”)

  42. Christian

    Interimafied

  43. Erik

    What does it mean if I’m already planning how to use the word ‘badgergasm’ with Dungeons & Dragons’ Summon Monster/Nature’s Ally spells?

    hmm… 1d4+1 Celestial or dire badgers, cast several times…

    I’m going to annoy my fellow players so much…

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