Comments on: If It’s April, It Must Be Giveaway

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:46:52 +0000

Okay– “anecgloat” gets my vote, but I just wanted to say as I sat here surfing on my new, ultra-thin Mac (I know, I keep telling him to stop buying stuff for me, but you know–it fits perfectly in my Chanel hobo so I’ll just shut up) that your contest totally reminds me of this time I was at my old flatmate’s party on Lake Cuomo when this guy who was doing a one year exchange at Princeton the same year I was interning with Toni walked in and we were wearing the same Alexander McQueen skirt– I mean, there’s got to be a word for that, like jinx, you know?

Oh, shit– did I just Mickey-D you?

(Mickey-D = supersize ME to diminish you)

By: christine

christine — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:31:28 +0000

I suffer from so many ailments but the two that are the most tiresome are GERD, Gastroesophageal reflux disease,and BARD, Boastfulannotatus reflux disease

By: Gray Nixon

Gray Nixon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:42:45 +0000

How about a “Me-ander”?

By: robbie

robbie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:44:11 +0000

hmmm.

mon-sequitur?
self-induced-bust-a-nutgraf?
the onanist’s koan? the onan-koan?
needy-lede?
the arrograph?
the egopener?
self-congratulastory?
blow hard lede?

By: altehaggen

altehaggen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:41:33 +0000

Got it–Ivy Lede!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:50:23 +0000

Me-metic?

By: ken abramson

ken abramson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:36:29 +0000

May I suggest “egolet”?

By: Charles Matthews

Charles Matthews — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:55:10 +0000

How about an “anecgloat”?

By: book/daddy

book/daddy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:25:45 +0000

The “pathetic fallacy.”

Yes, I know, it’s already a lit-crit term for a very diffferent phenomenon, but I so much prefer its relevance here.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:08:23 +0000

Ha-ha. Loving these. How about putzspam.

By: Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:14:33 +0000

How about a verb: to peacock. Peacocking…

By: altehaggen

altehaggen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:43:01 +0000

How about a Line I-tem Me-too?

I can enter my own contest if it’s bad.

By: Susan T.

Susan T. — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:24:50 +0000

I was thinking of this: “the extrameous intro.” Extra-meous. That Harvard beginning is very meous.

By: Mkp-hearts-nyc

Mkp-hearts-nyc — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:10:23 +0000

Hard to beat I-gression…but how about Indulge-o-philes? Commonly identified by their catch phrase, “If you’ll indulge me for a moment”….

I also refer to those people as Third Questioners in Print (based on the phenomenon apparent in any public forum where the first question/comment is short and sweet, the second a little unhinged but still to the point, and the third a flailing self-propelled mess of personal information, misinformed opinions, overeducation and grandiosity)

By: Leslie Birdwell

Leslie Birdwell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:44:04 +0000

How about a reflexive tautologism? (But really, “I-gression” is pretty cool!)

By: e

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:21:36 +0000

Sounds like something you might call an “I”-gression.

Or possibly The Me-me meme.

By: CAAF

CAAF — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:23:55 +0000

Ooh, ooh! One more (bad) one: Autograf … like “he signed his autograf all over that review.”

It feels like some sort of masturbation joke should get worked in there somewhere, too.

By: CAAF

CAAF — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:21:48 +0000

Well, when I was interning at the Paris Review, and it’d be late at night and we’d be over at George’s, not for a party or anything, just a very small casual get-together, a nightcap really, you know, with Salman, Jhumpa, Norman we always called that …
JK… playing shamelessly off yours, how about The Mook? As in, the hook that turns you into a …