/***********
|     TITLE: WordPlay
|   VERSION: 1.0
|      TYPE: Shared Code
|    AUTHOR: Chris van Rensburg
| COPYRIGHT: 2003-2007 Chris van Rensburg
***********/

/*ScruncherSettings Mappings=""*/

(function () {
	/*** Namespace ***/
	if (typeof Tk == 'undefined') Tk = {};
	var _package = Tk.WordPlay = {};

	function _newWordPlay (_word,_definition,_date) {
		var _object = {
			word:_word,
			definition:_definition,
			date:_date
		};
		return _object;
	}

	_package.items = [
		_newWordPlay (
			'alltheequaltoormore',
			'a synonym for "nonetheless"',
			'2004-06-20'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'assholescence',
			'an adult onset psychological condition that often afflicts old buddies from one\'s childhood, school years, or college years, by which such buddies progressively turn from being really cool and groovy people into being outright assholes.',
			'2004-05-14'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'badvertizing',
			'advertizing that is either profoundly ineffective or extremely nefariious in nature',
			'2004-04-02'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'blacktor',
			'a gender-neutral term for an actor of African ethnicity (compare to "blacktress")',
			'2001-07-16'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'blacktress',
			'a female actor of African ethnicity (compare to "blacktor")',
			'2001-07-16'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'blogchive',
			'an archive of old blog postings',
			'2004-11-14'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'chaosis',
			'a chaotic situation or a state of chaos',
			'2004-06-02'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'crapplication',
			'an ill-conceived, highly unstable, or extremely poorly designed software application',
			'2002-07-15'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'delimeter',
			'the length of a footlong subway sandwich (approximately 1 foot, or 0.3048 of a meter). "deli-" is a quantitative prefix similar to "milli-", "centi-", and "deci-". "deli-" is greater than "deci-" (1/10th) but less than 1.',
			'2004-08-30'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'departy',
			'a farewell / going away / bon voyage celebration event ("depart" + "party")',
			'2004-09-10'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'desensitive',
			'a state of suppressed sensitivity achieved through a process of desensitization, such as being exposed over a long period of time to increasingly graphic visual depictions of violence (compare to "insensitive")',
			'2004-11-16'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'dumbographic',
			'the not-so-intelligent segment of the population',
			'2004-11-29'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'evertheequaltoormore',
			'a synonym for "nevertheless"',
			'2004-06-20'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'excessible',
			'an adjective used to describe things that are highly addictive and prone to being done or used in excess',
			'2004-12-20'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'hair spider',
			'a species of parasitic spider (scientific name: <i>Arachnis imitatis hairii</i>), often misstaken for a benign clump or knot of hair, and exhibiting irregular morphology with varied anatomical structure (compare to "dust bunny")',
			'2004-05-07'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'hatriotism',
			'an unhealthy climate of patriotic fervor that leads to increased xenophobia, bigotry, and hatred of other groups, whether members of "enemy" nations or merely members of the same society but who are not perceived to be fully participating in the nationalistic mood',
			'2004-05-15'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'horisun',
			'the specific spot on the horizon where the sun rises or sets',
			'2004-12-22'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'idealuge',
			'a steady torrent of ideas',
			'2001-11-07'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'impropaganda',
			'propaganda used maliciously to promote a doctrine or cause that can objectively be determined to be harmful to mankind (see similar "badvertizing")',
			'2002-09-19'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'in-the-nick-of-timeliness',
			'the phenomenon in movies where a preposterously unlikely series of timely events occur - each just at the most impossibly critical moment - in order to move the story forward. If any one of these events were not to occur, the entire story would simply fall apart.',
			'2005-01-20'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'Maslow\'s Dog',
			'conditioning a dog to self-actualize at the ring of a bell (see also "Pavlov\'s Hierarchy of Needs")',
			'2004-06-22'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'poartry',
			'a creative work that is comprised of a visual artwork with an accompanying poem (art + poetry)',
			'2004-12-31'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'scumpany',
			'a company that is ethically bankrupt or otherwise devoid of scruples',
			'2004-12-16'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'sinhibition',
			'the inhibition of certain behaviors out of the belief that they are sinful',
			'2005-01-31'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'skinterface',
			'an interface scheme for a software application or platform that is carefully designed to facilitate configuration with custom "skins"',
			'2003-05-09'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'spamtaminated',
			'the condition that an e-mail address gets into when it is eventually captured by a spammer\'s address harvesting systems. This condition is usually terminal, and once an e-mail address has become spamtaminated, it usually needs to be abandoned for a new one.',
			'2004-11-10'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'speaking in tongues in cheeks',
			'blathering in a trance-like state, uttering facetious and/or sarcastic outbursts in nonsense made-up languages that noone else can understand',
			'2004-06-06'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'telecommutications technologies',
			'a subset of telecommunication technologies specifically geared or suited to telecommuting',
			'2005-02-27'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'varbosity',
			'in computer programming, the practice of compulsively using long and highly descriptive variable names (refers broadly to such naming of all kinds of identifiers, including functions / subroutines / methods, object classes, packages, constands, etc.)',
			'2004-07-13'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'warporation',
			'a company that profits from war or the fear of war, a company that is part of the military industrial complex ("war" + "corporation")',
			'2004-11-03'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'Yearthday',
			'an annual celebration, spanning the last day of the old year and the first day of the new year, and celebrated with the exchanging of gifts, the display of fireworks, and symbolic rituals such as the planting of trees (yearly + earth + birthday)',
			'2003-01-01'
		),
		_newWordPlay (
			'zeroscaping',
			'the pursuit of the underlying goal of xeriscaping, but through the practice of doing none of said "scaping" - absolutely no water or maintenance is involved',
			'2004-09-16'
		)
	];
}) ();