toddsift: Xwaksibee

The word Phwoar, defined as an "expression of enthusiastic or lubricious approval", has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary proving once again that Brits talk funny. It is interesting to note that the folks at the good old OED, being forced to enter a slang word into their prestigious tome, have chosen to give it a definition comprised of the largest words that they could come up with. I had to look up what lubricious meant just get a greater sense of what Phwoar might mean to my everyday life. The word sounded greasy, and low and behold I was not too far off the mark with its primary definition, which turned out to be “having a slippery or smooth quality”. The second and more pertinent definition is “lewd, wanton”. So what it boils down to is Phwoar is the British version of our “cat call” or “wolf whistle”.

Another fascinating aspect to the word Phwoar is that those people, whose job it is to put stuff in the OED, have chosen to accept the non-phonetic Greek “Ph” beginning instead of a more common “F” giving the illusion of a richer etymology. Linguists can now spend days arguing which ancient poem of Homer did the early origins of Phwoar make its first appearance.

Linguist 1: In the subtext of the Iliad, Homer clearly mentions an orgy of snakelike beasts named the Phwortes.

Linguist 2: That occurrence surely is predated in Homers early work, Batrachomyomachia in which Homer speaks of the Phwoatus, a four headed wolf guardian.

Guy who just happens to be sitting at the next table over while trying to make use of the Starbucks free Wi-Fi connection so that he can watch the latest WTF posted daily at toddsift.blogspot.com, but is growing increasingly impatient with the two linguists: Shut up already!

All in all, this sparks in me a desire. My desire is to make sure that the word Xwaksibee makes in onto the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. I do not care what the actual definition turns out to be, I will let society determine that. Just as long as I use it loud enough and long enough, I cannot fail. Now all I have to do is save up enough money for a plane ticket to London.

Think of today’s WTF triple collection as a sandwich. A sandwich made with love, where the first and last videos act as the soft doughy Wonder Bread to the mind-jarring pimento loaf that has got to be strangest music video I have seen to date.

I ease you in with a parody of James Blunt’s Beautiful

via videosift.com

Now comes the part where you regret buying that oddly aggregated luncheon meat, and regret even further that you are eating it on a sandwich.