| Made
Up Words and Inventions: |
| Adamantium is
the strongest metal in the Marvel Comic Book Universe |
| Assassinate -
by William Shakespeare |
| Borked - To be
treated as Judge Robert Bork, to relentlessly badger someone
about reletively benign, small details. |
| Brave New World
- by William Shakespeare |
|
Bumped - by William Shakespeare
|
| Carbonite - |
| Cromulent - the
Simpsons - meaning totally acceptable. "It
is perfectly cromulent to use embiggens in a sentence". |
| Dilithium Crystals
are used to power starships in the Star Trek Universe |
| Embiggens - the
Simpsons - meaning to make larger. "I can embiggen
this sentence by adding a big, cromulent word to make
it larger". |
| Flux Capacitor
- The device used by Doctor Emmett Brown, requiring 1.21
gigwatts of power, to travel through time. |
| Force, the - the
energy created by all living things, that surrounds and
penetrates living beings and binds the galaxy together. |
| Foul Play - by
William Shakespeare |
| Google, Googled, Googling
(II) - one of the newest words to come about, meaning
"searched or searching on the internet". |
| Googling - Mark
Twain - oozing out. As he said "...like a jug that's
googling out buttermilk" |
| Infinite Improbability
Drive is the mechanism that allows |
| Kwyjibo - the
Simpsons - Bart Simpson's Scrabble word |
| Leftorium - the
Simpsons - Ned Flanders ' store featuring items for left-handed
people |
| Neuralizer - the
hand-held flashing device that makes people forget things. |
| Normalcy - President
Warren G. Harding |
| Obscene - by William
Shakespeare |
| Orgasmatron -
from Woody Allen's SLEEPER. A sex machine |
| Oscillation Overthruster
- Buckaroo Bonzai's electronic device that makes it possible
to travel through matter |
| Nazi - Created
as a shortened term for the National Socialist German
Workers Party and used mostly by opponents. Party members
referred to the ideology as National Socialism. |
| Pandemonium -
John Milton, in Paradise Lost |
| Pompitous
- "the pompitous of love" lyric is often credited
as coming from Steve Miller's song, The Joker.
Many people don't know that it was first used by The Medallions'
1954 R&B almost-hit The Letter. |
| Positronic Brain
- |
| Pragmatism - C.
S. Pierce(1875) |
| pwned - common
typo for "owned", meaning someone or something
beat the person "pwnd" |
| Red Shirt (redshirt)
- doomed person, From Star Trek - the guy wearing the
red shirt would be killed. |
| Robby the Robot
starred in films such as Forbidden Plant and televion's
The Addams Family |
| Robot B9 - the
official name for the robot on Lost In Space |
| Squish - Mark
Twain To Squash something down. |
| Stargate - |
| To Swift Boat
- To be thrown out of the public eye by another event
like John Kerry was by the Swift Boat incident during
the 2004 presidential election. |
| Tardis (T.A.R.D.I.S)
- Time And Relative Dimentions In Space: the time-machine
and spacecraft from the series Dr. Who. |
Three Laws of Robotics
- written by Isaac Asimov
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First
Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second
Law. |
| Transparent Aluminium
- first mentioned in the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage
Home (1986). |
| Transporter -
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| Tricorder - |
| Tycho is the crater
on the Moon, named after 16th century Danish astronomer,
Tycho Brahe where the monolith was found in 2001: A Space
Odyssey. |
| Utopia - Sir Thomas
More |
| Vandellas - The
background singers for Motown singer Martha Reeves. |
| Wendy - J.M. Barrie
invented this word for the heroine of his story, Peter
Pan. |
| Xerox - Once the
world's largest "copier" company, they lost
the rights to their trademarked name, XEROX, and became
generic. Google may want to watch out. |
| Zany - by William
Shakespeare |
