Comments on: Pseudophistication

By: David

David — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:42:42 +0000

Not that I really care as it seems likely that someone might have come up with it already, but I’ll check up on this,and have posted this comment anyway as I feel that comments, unless utterly retarded, obscene, or spam should generally be posted on blogs. At the time, I googled the phrase and came up with nothing, so there was no indication that it had been used already. For the record, the link provided goes nowhere and there is no record of this word anywhere on wiktionary or wikipedia.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:07:23 +0000

Actually, I hate to break this to you, but I coined the term “pseudophistication” in JUNE of 2007. I came up with it in relation to an article in Esquire that a Slate.com writer dubbed the “worst celebrity profile ever.” http://www.slate.com/id/2168707/ And I have infallible gmail chat logs to prove it. I even added it to Wiktionary, but it was subsequently removed for lack of reliable citations. Here is an excerpt from a gmail chat with a friend dated June 22, 2007:

10:00 AM i just told ben and david Pseudophistication
Ben was like “Quick! Put that on Wikipedia NOW!”
(so i get credit)

And another from an AIM chat with a co-worker dated June 27, 2007:

[16:57] Co-worker: Did you put that one phrase on wiki?
[16:57] Co-worker: For that crap article?
[16:58] me on AIM: not yet
[16:59] me on AIM: I’m going to use “unprintable” whenever i remember instead of swears. You unprintable blank.
[16:59] Co-worker: hehe
[16:59] Co-worker: Do it!
[16:59] Co-worker: NOW.
[17:00] me on AIM: i don’t think ihave an account

[17:11] me on AIM: ok i’m creating a wikipedia stub and then bouncing the hell outta here
[17:11] Co-worker: *shrug* Guess I’m doing the same.
[17:11] Co-worker: It’s an early day!
[17:11] Co-worker: YAY!
[17:18] me on AIM: i have to provide a verifiable reference where i heard/saw the word in use
[17:19] Co-worker: I could use it on [co-worker’s blog] in the next article I write.
[17:20] me on AIM: ok
[17:20] me on AIM: meanwhile it might get removed from wiktionary though
[17:21] Co-worker: Well then wait until I use it.
[17:21] me on AIM: too late
[17:22] Co-worker: Do you have the link?
[17:22] me on AIM: (Link: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pseudophistication#Noun)http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pseudophistication#Noun
[17:23] me on AIM: i’m awesome
[17:29] Co-worker: Awesome.
[17:29] Co-worker: I’m going home.
[17:30] me on AIM: cya
Session Close (Co-worker): Wed Jun 27 17:33:55 2007

I think this proves indisputably that I am the coiner of the word “pseudophistication.” However, I will credit you with the zeitgeist, having come up with it independently, albeit three months later… Perhaps great minds think alike.

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:48:12 +0000

I think you’re missing the point about Gavin. He’s got GREAT hair…and he’s also a progressive politician with GREAT Hair.

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:26:34 +0000

Dustin,
You’re right, I should have clarified my dislike of fat people in that I hate it when people have become that way through their own bad habits and have no desire to change their lives for the better by eating less food and healthier doses of it…

By: dustin

dustin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:07:04 +0000

Wow, David, I’m a little shocked that fat people actually make you angry. Disgust with obesity,okay, shame for our culture and what we let marketing lead us to, sure, but actual anger. Speaking as a semi-recovered fat guy I’m a little disappointed. My guess is that you have never really struggled with your weight at all. In the time I’ve known you, you have sometimes workedout, and sometimes not, but never seemed out of shape or like you were gaining weight. I’m not saying obesity is unavoidable, but some of us struggle more than others and you could stand to be a little more tolerant of people with problems you are lucky enough not to have. All that being said, when I travel to the mid-west, the average girth of the population makes me sick to my stomach. This is what wealth and the marketing of the food industry have brought us.

So, here’s my 10 things that make me angry:

1 People who don’t take personal responsiblity for themselves and their lives.
2 People who will listen to any music or speaker, watch any TV show or movie, and eat at any fast food joint because it’s cheap. Garafolo said it best “Eye hole, ear hole, mouth hole; i don’t care i take what ever they’re putting out”. Makes me nuts.
3 The complete lack of phone ettiquite that cell phones have brought to the world.
4 Poor grammar and punctuation, even my own.
5 When my room mate doesn’t wash his dishes and waits for me to ask him to do it.
6 When the Lakers don’t play up to their potential; I know theyr’e not great right now, but they can play better than they do sometimes. Frustrates me to no end when they don’t get defensive rebounds.
7 The lack of TIVO in the cheap hotels I have to stay at when traveling for the company.
8 When all these HOs won’t back up off a me.
9 Republicans, and democrats, politicians in general. You have to remember that any one who made it to the national level of politics sold their soul so long ago they don’t remember who it was sold to or what they got for it, it’s just gone.
10 The TV show COPS. It shows people in their weakest, darkest, most shameful moments while they are being pushed around by an officer (usually verbally, or emotional) all for the profit of the producers. Humans with any compassion should be ashamed it remains onthe air.

So there’s my 10. Go ahead and scruitinize the grammar and punctuation, I already know you are. And Davey my boy you were right, I do feel better.