This is a real thing. The apocalypse is coming.
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This still happens. About a week ago there was a drunk Hobo veering wildly along the pavement pushing a shopping cart and I could not get past him. I missed my bus.
This word was in my head for a long time before this cartoon. I have a book called “The Meaning Of Liff” by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd which is a dictionary of words for things there are no words for. The idea is, you take the name of an English town and apply it so something there is no word for in the English language. Examples given on Wikipedia are Shoeburyness (“The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else’s bottom”) and Abinger (“One who washes up everything except the frying pan, the cheese grater and the saucepan which the chocolate sauce has been made in”)
Anyway, Ventongimp is my contribution to this project. It’s a real place too. It’s in Cornwall. I’ve been there and everything.
Actually, now I am worse for this with “Californication.”