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Because You Have To Have Vocab

December 16th, 2006 by | Tags: , , ,

I have a proposal.

For the Internet.

I would like to see this term enter common usage in the near future:

Winick, v. To unnecessarily and gratuituously kill a dozen or more completely innocent bystanders as a plot device. Man, New X-Men Winicks all over the place this issue.

I want to see if this catches on. If so, maybe we’ll verb more nouns. (I think “Hudlining” is when you have a bunch of black people in the background of the scene commenting at random. I don’t even want to think about what Claremonting is.) It promises to entertain!

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12 comments to “Because You Have To Have Vocab”

  1. Claremonting is presumably the act of unnecessary and gratuitous dialogue to explain who a character is and what their powers are.

    Unless the stories about the model dressed up to look like Storm are true…

         by Loz December 16th, 2006 at 04:17 --replyReply to this comment

  2. The problem with “Claremonting” is that it could have so many possible uses, from the relatively decent (to create a memorable female character) to the horrible (to have an obvious and disturbing mind-control fetish).

         by Wanderer December 16th, 2006 at 04:25 --replyReply to this comment

  3. BRUCE JONES THIS!

         by Gavok December 16th, 2006 at 04:58 --replyReply to this comment

  4. “Johns”, v. – To obsessively retcon/jettison/kill off what you always hated and rehash old stories.
    ex.: “Man, I’m Johnsing for Emerald Twlight.”

         by JLG December 16th, 2006 at 05:05 --replyReply to this comment

  5. And here I thought to Winick is to disregard previous continuity to present an after-school special.

    What brought this on? Outsiders or Green Arrow?

         by MarkPoa December 16th, 2006 at 12:49 --replyReply to this comment

  6. Claremonting and Bruce Jonesing are horrifying ideas.

         by Kaz December 16th, 2006 at 19:16 --replyReply to this comment

  7. What brought this on? Outsiders or Green Arrow?

    I was talking to dub about how goddamn depressing New X-Men is.

         by Wanderer December 16th, 2006 at 22:35 --replyReply to this comment

  8. “Bendising” – The act of padding what should be a simple 2-issue story into a trade via excessive wordiness.

         by notintheface December 17th, 2006 at 16:29 --replyReply to this comment

  9. “I brought home a nice Frank Cho when I went to the bar. Then I woke up and saw she was really a Frank Quitely.”

         by Gavok December 18th, 2006 at 01:48 --replyReply to this comment

  10. Oh my God.

    “Then I Winicked my own arm off to escape.”

         by Wanderer December 18th, 2006 at 04:43 --replyReply to this comment

  11. Ennis, v.
    To suffer a messy and horrible death and/or disfigurement, that is simultaneously hilarious to any onlookers.

    “Man, when that air conditioner fell out of the window, it totally Ennis’ed that guy and his dog.”

         by googum December 18th, 2006 at 13:26 --replyReply to this comment

  12. “Your term paper got an F because you Jon Davised it.”

         by W4 December 27th, 2006 at 17:03 --replyReply to this comment